Category Archive: Compute

Mar 17 2012

How UCS achieves 80GbE of bandwidth per blade

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With the launch of the third generation of Unified Fabric, Cisco’s UCS system has moved well ahead of the simple 2*10GbE interfaces that a single blade can have. It now delivers up to 80GbE to a single blade in a dual 40GbE way. How is that achieved? What are the options? There are four main …

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Mar 04 2012

New Cisco UCS Fabric and Management products

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This is an exciting week for those that follow the Cisco UCS platform with announcements around the Fabric Infrastructure, the Compute and the Unified Management. With Intel’s E5 Romley processor launch this week, that is sure to grab a lot of attention, the announcements around Cisco UCS Fabric Infrastructure and UCS Management might have an …

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Nov 29 2011

Truth or Dare… Power Calculators

Truth or Dare… didn’t we all play that game in our younger years. Where you lived with the consequences of a dare if you got it wrong. In the Data Center there are a few things you don’t want to get wrong, and one of them is power (outages). Vendors put a lot of effort …

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Jul 17 2011

UCS 2.0: New Innovation

Two years on the market and a 10% market share – UCS 1.0 has proven itself… welcome UCS 2.0. Last week at Cisco Live 2011 in Las Vegas, where “what happens in Vegas is shared online”, UCS 2.0 was announced (orderability scheduled for Q3 CY11) With UCS 1.0 we brought innovation to the x86 blade …

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