Cisco Readies Rack-mounted Servers For UCS
Cisco’s entry to the blade server market back in March raised a few eyebrows from traditional server providers, but the networking giant has now unveiled some new additions and pricing details for its rack-mounted servers.
In other news, Cisco announced the availability of a new memory extension for UCS blade servers. Cisco said that the extension yields more than twice the addressable memory of currently available two-socket rack-mount platforms, thus providing the ability to support many more virtual machines per server. These become available later in October for $7,300 (£4,583), the company said.
Cisco also introduced a new Virtual Interface Card for UCS B-Series blade servers, which provides adapter consolidation and virtualisation optimisation capabilities by enabling each virtualised adapter to define up to 128 Ethernet or Fibre Channel connections.
