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Cisco Partner Summit 2008 – Marking the next evolution of its network-enabled Data Center 3.0 vision to transform the data center into a virtualized environment providing anytime, anywhere access to content on any device, Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) today unveiled the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series of data center-class switches, introduced industry-leading interoperability via an ecosystem of application and systems partners and accelerated adoption with a data center channel partner enablement strategy.

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series strengthens the company’s existing data center switch portfolio and builds on its commitment to invest heavily over the next 18 months in new products and capabilities to help customers architect the next-generation data center, creating a new market opportunity for its channel partners. The development of the Nexus 5000 Series was a collaborative effort between Cisco and Nuova Systems. Today Cisco also announced its intent to acquire the remaining interest that it does not yet hold in San Jose-based Nuova Systems, a Cisco-invested start up focused on the development of next-generation products for the data center market. (Refer to press release)

The Nexus 5000 Series switch does look very cool. Most interesting is the Fibre Channel over Ethernet that is also mentioned.  Ask any CIO, or end user for that matter in an enterprise and their key issue I would suggest is going to be time to live, the time it takes to build a server. The how long it takes to have a server get Windows/Linux installed, be connected to whatever network I need it to be connected to, to have the storage presented, the application loaded and configured.

Fibre Channel over Ethernet should hopefully reduce the overhead to the server deployment process, that my network patching guy can also be the guy that deploys the data storage cables, that the network teams might even be able to zone in data to the server, that my SAN guys can focus on the strategy, the data management part, the replication between data centers, let the actual port management, which bit connects into which bit be done by networks might also allow me to get the big picture view. Let’s not forget that if I want an inventory what is connected to what at the moment, I have to request information from Storage and from networks/telecoms, with Fibre Channel over Ethernet, I might get to that state where it’s a matter of port assignments – ports 1-4 are for server9, one ILO connection, one production network connection and two connections to SAN array 7. We’ll have to see, do check it out.

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