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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Networking/HP-Cisco-Partner-on-Network-Switches-for-Joint-HP-Blade-Server-Users-704250/

Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard, despite an increasingly strained relationship, apparently can still put aside their differences for the sake of their joint customers who are using HPservers and Cisco switches.

The two companies, once longtime partners that have since become fierce rivals in the data center, have jointly developed the Cisco Fabric Extender for HP BladeSystem—or the Cisco Nexus B22 Fabric Extender (FEX) for HP. The new product, which was co-engineered by both vendors, is aimed at businesses running HP’s c-Class BladeSystem blade servers who want to leverage the Cisco United Fabric.

The offering, which is available now from HP and its channel partners, is designed to help businesses that already are running HP blades in Cisco switch environments to expand the technology they have rather than having to make major investments in new products.

It’s great to see announcements like this as the two vendors deliver solutions for the HP BladeSystem platform, anything they can do to improve the connectivity of the HP Blade platform and extend it’s interoperability with Cisco switches has to be a good thing. I’ll need to read up more.

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