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Sometimes first-movers DO have advantages

Lots of buzz in the air about Cisco entering the server market with the Unified Computing System – using the words “Revolutionary”, “Breakthrough”, etc.   Now, to have Cisco enter the server market is certainly revolutionary… but neither their technology nor their business value is particulary new. But their marketing sure turned-up the volume on it [...] Read More

More pricing info emerges on Cisco UCS…

Well, the June 12th Channel Register report on Cisco UCS prices certainly changes the conclusions of the original Cisco price comparison done in April. For Blades, assuming the “Legacy” Blade Price used by Cisco in the original comparison is the actual List Price of a “Legacy” Nehalem Blade (Cisco agreed that HP was the “Legacy” [...] Read More

Explaining RTI architectures

With the entry of new products to the market such as Cisco’s UCS and HP’s Matrix Operating Environment – a new name for HP’s collection of tools – I thought it would be worthwhile to re-visit the architectures for Real Time Infrastructure and discuss the different approaches and what the strengths/weaknesses are of each. Specifically, [...] Read More