The musings of an IT Consultant » Cisco UCS 5100 Blade Server Chassis http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-consultant Wed, 01 May 2013 01:19:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Cisco UCS Announcement http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-consultant/cisco-ucs-announcement/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-consultant/cisco-ucs-announcement/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:07:00 +0000 Raj Perumal http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/it-consultant/cisco-ucs-announcement/ Hi folks, today Cisco made their big announcement regarding their Unified Computing System. At the heart of this system is Cisco’s new UCS 5100 Blade Server Chassis. This chassis can hold up to 8 blade servers and 2 fabric extenders within a 6 RU enclosure.

UCS is being marketed as an all in one enclosure that contains many components such as the blade enclosure, the servers, fabric interconnects, a management module etc.

Cisco is going head to head with their long time partners IBM and HP by making this announcement. It remains to be seen if Cisco can make any headway in a market that they historically have not competed in during these hard economic times.

Win or lose, Cisco is sure to turn some heads. One thing is for sure, Cisco has always been one to innovate, and will most certaintly keep everyone on their toes by entering this space.

You can read more about UCS here.

-RP

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