Comments on: Cisco serves up Unified Computing push

The networking giant unveils a new effort to streamline data center operations and as part of the package is offering up its own blade servers.

[lightningrob]

What's the OS on the blade servers? Linux? Solaris?

[tgrenier]

what ever customer buys, ESX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, etc...

[jtmajorx]

As posted earlier, whatever you want to Install on it. Especially true with Microsoft's HPC product fairing so well these days.

[rshimizu12]

Just watched the webcast. If Cisco wants to compete with IBM or HP they are going to have to do a much better job of marketing. The whole webcast was primarily conceptual with very little or no demo or explanation of the actual product. The brochures are not much better. They will be hard to understand for a IT person.

[koestreich]

Their product isn't even shipping yet. For a similar (and shipping) product, see http://www.egenera.com It's available on industry-standard Dell HW, rather than the newfangled stuff.

[ultra01]

rshimizu12 It's aimed at Virtualization like vSphere. One problem we have at the moment is the cost of putting in SANs and getting them to perform. They just don't out perform local storage unless you spend to earth on them. Sounds like we'll be getting some of these new toys to test out with vSphere soon :)