http://lippisreport.com/2009/03/lippis-report-122-cisco%e2%80%99s-unified-computing-system-opportunities-and-challenges/ Resources for Network / IT Business Decision Makers Tue, 22 May 2012 00:38:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://lippisreport.com/2009/03/lippis-report-122-cisco%e2%80%99s-unified-computing-system-opportunities-and-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-158638 krbabu Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:26:01 +0000 http://lippisreport.com/?p=1504#comment-158638 Report No. 122 is a good summary of the Cisco's Universal Computing System (UCS) that collects in one place all the pieces of the UCS solution. And the Cisco partnership with VMware, I expect, will be able to exploit the versatility of Virtual Datacenter OS - http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/. Once the three key components of virtualization - namely CPU, storage and networking - are fully and integrally virtualized, it is possible to imagine elasticity and scalability of the integral system. While elasticity of one component itself is of value - e.g., Amazon's EC2 - the elasticity of the integral system will become increasingly important. Thus, if Cisco has made a gamble at all, it is a well calculated risk. Report No. 122 is a good summary of the Cisco’s Universal Computing System (UCS) that collects in one place all the pieces of the UCS solution. And the Cisco partnership with VMware, I expect, will be able to exploit the versatility of Virtual Datacenter OS – http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/. Once the three key components of virtualization – namely CPU, storage and networking – are fully and integrally virtualized, it is possible to imagine elasticity and scalability of the integral system. While elasticity of one component itself is of value – e.g., Amazon’s EC2 – the elasticity of the integral system will become increasingly important. Thus, if Cisco has made a gamble at all, it is a well calculated risk.

]]> http://lippisreport.com/2009/03/lippis-report-122-cisco%e2%80%99s-unified-computing-system-opportunities-and-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-193990 Cisco Data Center Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:15:54 +0000 http://lippisreport.com/?p=1504#comment-193990 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">RT @NickLippis: Lippis Report 122: Cisco’s Unified Computing System: Opportunities and Challenges http://tinyurl.com/daj3y8</span></span> RT @NickLippis: Lippis Report 122: Cisco’s Unified Computing System: Opportunities and Challenges http://tinyurl.com/daj3y8

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