gigaom.com — The movement toward blade servers in the enterprise data center has been growing steadily for some time, backed by manufacturers like IBM and HP. But expect to soon see networking giant Cisco Systems enter this market as well, setting themselves up for a tense battle with blade server manufacturers for control of the enterprise data center.
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frippledipMar 22, 2008
We are getting rid of 24 Bladecenters this summer for roughly 250 ESX Hosts running about 1200+ servers.(We are migrating all of our 1000+ physical machines to V, that is DEV, QA, QA Performance, DR, PROD. I creaming my pants thinking of the 3650 that are coming in April. ESXHost imaging >>>>>>>>>>> IBM RDM
yamijimMar 22, 2008
+1 for VMWare, i hope your running VMotion, Virtualization is totally the new blade server.
homersaysdohMar 22, 2008
I'm gonna digg your comment and pretend that I know what the hell you are talking about.
reddikilowattMar 22, 2008
They mention in TFA that IBM sells a Cisco integrated switch for their blades. Perhaps they could collaborate on a standard.But I doubt it. At this level, having standard, cross manufacturer hardware isn't as much of a deal breaker as you might think. 4 hour repair on a 100% redundant system is worth a lot more than an industry standard backplane.
hello2usirMar 23, 2008
Any monkey can get a CCNA/CCNP with relative ease. I don't know if I could call that bragging.But then again he probably thinks it's a shining accomplishment.