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PAN Manager Comparison vs. Cisco: Boot-from-SAN Checklist

Egenera is frequently asked to compare our PAN Manager Software to Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS).   Conceptually the two products are similar in that they are based on the concept of stateless servers with virtual I/O and fully converged networking. But PAN Manager has been around for 10 years… so we’ve had a long time [...] Read More

Truth in Analysis: Is UCS Really a Money Saver?

Cisco recently posted a case study on deploying their UCS at a customer site, Slumberland. Once again, I’d like to dissect the study and cut through the marketing Spin and FUD. I’ll approach this analysis the same way I did back in April and then June ’09 when Cisco also tried to Snow the market [...] 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

A closer look at Cisco pricing

Back on 16 April, Cisco began its marketing push on its Unified Computing System (UCS) hyping the fundamental cost savings it provides – as much as 31% over traditional approaches for a large scale-out implementation. But after close scrutiny, Cisco either needs to check their math or adjust their pricing. Their claims about TCO, bandwidth [...] Read More