Blade Watch

Cisco

SAN JOSE Calif. – March 16, 2009 – Cisco today unveiled an evolutionary new data center architecture, innovative services and an open ecosystem of best in class partners to help customers develop next-generation data centers that unleash the full power of virtualization. With today’s announcement, Cisco is delivering on the promise of virtualization through Unified Computing – an architecture that bridges the silos in the data center into one unified architecture using industry standard technologies. Key to Cisco’s approach is the Cisco Unified Computing System which unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single energy efficient system that can reduce IT infrastructure costs and complexity, help extend capital assets and improve business agility well into the future.

Today’s announcements extend Cisco’s data center portfolio and are a critical step in the company’s Data Center 3.0 strategy. To help customers accelerate the transition to the Unified Computing architecture, Cisco is paving the way with a comprehensive suite of new Unified Computing services. In addition, Cisco today announced collaboration with industry leaders on the Unified Computing System and architecture.

• • The Cisco Unified Computing System: Based on industry standards, the Unified Computing System is a new computing model that uses integrated management and combines a “wire once” unified fabric with an industry standard computing platform to optimize virtualization, reduce data center total overall cost, and provide dynamic resource provisioning for increased business agility.
  • • Reduces total cost of ownership: up to 20 percent reduction in capital expenditures (CAPEX) and up to 30% reduction in operational expenditures (OPEX).
    • Improves IT productivity and improves business agility: provision applications in minutes instead of days. Shifts the focus from IT maintenance to IT innovation
    • Increases scalability without added complexity: managed as a single system, whether it has one or 320 servers with thousands of virtual machines.
    • Improves Energy Efficiency: significantly reduces power and cooling costs
    • Provides interoperability and investment protection through industry standards-based infrastructure

The announcements today are very exciting and I look forward to reading up more about them, the new blade sounds very cool indeed. That Cisco are offering a unified computing system has to be a good thing to bring forward new standards and best practices, anything they can do to make management of the data center easier, and convergence of Ethernet and Storage has to be good news for the consumer and the industry. I wonder if we will see a build on the existing management protocols and tools, any further enhancements to energy efficiency would also be welcome?

In the meantime, we need to welcome Cisco’s blade to the stage, welcome their innovation of the platform, and the message towards virtualization and the data center as the IT.

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