The following image from the Cisco website shows the different UCS components.
NetApp CEO Dan Warmenhoven announces their commitment to Unified Computing. It clearly shows NetApp’s vision on working with other industry leaders to further develop Unified Computing as the strategy for next-generation datacenter architecture.
Aside from news and discussions here at the UCSBlog, Cisco offers their own datacenter blog on the Cisco Blogs website. With the recent announce this blog is catching quite some traffic.
The Unified Computing System has been causing quite some stir around the web. PCWorld is talking about Cisco entering the servermarket while Zdnet is blogging about the extreme power savings the Unified Computing System promises..
Have a look at the Google News search for Unified Computing System for more up-to-date news about how the press and analysts are reacting to Cisco’s Unifed Computing initiative.
Cisco has published an introductionary minisite about their recently announced Cisco Unified Computing System on their website.
The Cisco Unified Computing System is Cisco’s next-generation data center architecture platform. It is designed, as Cisco puts it, to improve IT responsiveness to rapidly changing business demands, accelerate the delivery of new services and making this process simple, reliable, and secure, through end-to-end provisioning and migration support for both virtualized and non-virtualized systems.
Today Cisco Chairman & CEO John Chambers announced their Unified Computing System vision. This also marks the start of the UCSBlog, where will follow and discuss the development of the Unified Computing System in the future.