UCS unified introduction of computing systems to enable data center construction costs fell sharply, but also gives Cisco constructed from the data center become important participants Makers prelude Revolution has been opened.
Cisco architecture calculated to subvert meddle "cloud" market
At this time of economic downturn has not yet been out of winter, Cisco is the industry excitement and commotion.
March 17, Cisco at the global high-profile synchronization introduced the industry's first unified computing system (UCS) - a data center resources, all linked to the architecture, eliminating the computing, networking, storage, access and the boundaries of virtualization and as a single system to manage.
Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers presided over the 11 cities covered by Cisco TelePresence Meeting, called for the establishment of an open industry ecosystem to accelerate the IT industry in transition to a unified computing. Intel President and CEO Paul Otelini, Microsoft Server and Tools business unit president Bob Muglia, Vmware, President and CEO Paul Maritz, BMC CEO Bob Beaauchamp, EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci, Accenture chairman and chief Officer William D. Green and other industry leaders attending the meeting to explore ways to cooperate with Cisco UCS.
"This is a great revolutionary innovation." Cisco Asia Pacific sales, executive director of data center Andre Smit, Cisco's chief technology officer of China and other Cisco executives梁永健in an interview with reporters can not conceal his excitement.
Data Center闹革命
In fact, UCS released the technical Nexus7000, Nexus5000, Nexus1000v, Nexus2000 has more than a year at the latest time in stage one after another. Therefore, the first official release accompanied by UCS faceless Cisco UCS B Series blade server especially pathetic attention.
This seems to be "possible Cisco to enter blade server market large-scale" This caused a hubbub in the side of the hearsay evidence of the network.
Cisco CTO梁永健Chinese deny this, "If the media simply put Cisco as a blade server vendor, today the release of our equal unsuccessful." He said frankly, UCS is a revolutionary data center Architecture, Cisco UCS B series blade servers only UCS system are the many components in a component of it.
At梁永健It appears that technology has developed to a certain stage there will be a new market, a few years ago思科提had IIN (Intelligent Information Network) concept, consider network development will affect the computer's architecture, today is a manifestation of the UCS .
"Cisco UCS B series blade servers with existing blade servers revolutionize the majority of difference is, we 'exchange' as a core of key points. And traditional manufacturers to 'computing' as a core of key points."梁永健said Highlights of new technologies that can realize the perfect integration of virtualization, data center in order to achieve real integration. In other words, UCS unified network virtualization, storage virtualization and server virtualization, data center construction costs fell sharply in order to become a reality.
Cisco Asia Pacific sales, executive director of data center Andre Smi reporter give an example, a large financial enterprise data center, in the traditional system, the 320 blade servers, configure a new application to spend a few days to weeks time, need to configure the 3520 cable, rack 31, to spend 21 million U.S. dollars; at UCS system, 320 blade servers, configure a new application of only a few minutes, just configure the 480 cable, rack 12, spent 12 million U.S. dollars.
Who moves the cheese?
As we all know, data centers are generally managed by the server, network and storage elements such as composition, one of Cisco, Huawei, Juniper, Brocade and so rule the roost in the network equipment on, the server market from IBM, HP, Sun, Dell by occupied, compared with storage giant EMC and IBM.
UCS combines computing, networking, storage and data center virtualization, such as the resources required and may be managed as a single system, which allows Cisco data center from the field of the status of important players from become Makers.
"There is no doubt that Cisco directly with IT Infrastructure manufacturers HP, IBM face confrontation, some server partners will become competitors." Many of the industry think so. In fact, these partners in the sales of servers, it will also assist the sales of Cisco network equipment products, annual sales amount of up to several billion dollars.
This, Andre Smit and梁永健agreed that: "It is a competition to promote innovation." In fact, Cisco has always been familiar with competing on the Road, by some analysts as "slick guy." For example, Cisco, Microsoft is the largest in the UC area of enemies, but in the field of UCS will be Cisco's irons brothers. Cisco also said that stakeholders, Cisco UCS B series blade server is not intended to market alone, "the next few years, IBM, Cisco is still the most important partners."
However, Cisco would build on the data center are the "competing relationship" has produced a subtle impact. Cisco network at the field of competitors Brocade and Juniper was very excited. Brocade spokesman John Noh in an open message wrote: "Cisco's' unified computing 'is not revolutionary." Juniper data center business unit vice president and general manager David Yen directly to UCS called Cisco's "server strategy "and that Cisco will be decentralized energy.
At reporter, these words imply to the server vendors to "show well" means: we will not engage in the server, you need to build data center networking products
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