On March 16, the San Jose, Calif., networking giant unveiled UCS, a data center infrastructure architecture that unites compute, storage access and virtualization resources into one system. UCS ties ...

Cisco this week announced a switch module for HP’s BladeSystem chassis that can allow HP blade servers to connect and interoperate better with a Cisco-based data center network, the two vendors say.

Cisco’s Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 can provide Gigabit Ethernet connections for up to 16 server blades in an HP BladeSystem c-Class, connecting to the blades via the blade server chassis’ backplane.

After months of speculation, Cisco on Monday officially staked its claim to the blade server market, unveiling a server offering as part of its Unified Computing System, an architecture the San Jose, ...

Cisco Systems Inc., the IT industry’s leading supplier of routers and other networking hardware, is expanding its hardware offerings to include blade servers as part of a comprehensive push into the ...

Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems have teamed up to develop a Gigabit Ethernet switch that fits into Hewlett-Packard's blade server architecture. HP and Cisco announced Monday that they've ...

Cisco today entered the blade server market with a system called the Unified Computing System that pairs Intel x86-based processors with its 10Gbps Ethernet switch technology, VMware virtualization ...

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