Cisco on Tuesday updated its data center infrastructure, virtualization capabilities and its UCS technology with new servers, network connectivity, storage and fabric management. Cisco refreshed its ...

Back in March 2009, when Cisco announced the launch of their UCS platform and subsequent intention to enter the world of server hardware, eyebrows were raised including my own. There was never any ...

Cisco on Thursday unveiled the third generation of its Cisco UCS fabric computing platform centered on new servers based on Intel's Xeon E5-2600 processors. The new UCS platform also features enhanced ...

Cisco made a series of products announcements, and produced an updated cloud strategy, at its "Future Cloud" online event this week. The big news is the UCS X-Series modular chassis. A blend of rack ...

If you could design a blade server system entirely from scratch, it might look a whole lot like Cisco's Unified Computing System Encapsulating Cisco’s Unified Computing System into a few paragraphs is ...

Cisco UCS 1.0 is like no other blade-based server infrastructure available today. Its reliance on 10Gb Ethernet grants it plenty of bandwidth, while Cisco’s model of treating chassis as simple ...

I have a Cisco UCS blade chassis system that we have just finished setting up in the last few weeks. It is intended to run OpenStack and so we are trying to install some variation of Ubuntu on it.

Cisco this week revamped its UCS server line with systems designed to scale form the largest cloud deployment to those with only up to 15 servers. Cisco unveiled the UCS M-Series modular servers and ...

Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS), introduced today, looks like an attempt to lock up the data center in much the same way that Microsoft tried to establish hegemony over the software stack. UCS ...

Cisco Systems has been hit with an unusual double-whammy of issues, one of them in software and one in hardware. First, the more serious issue, a firewall flaw. Security researcher Positive ...

We've been quoted on Dell, HP and Cisco on a refresh and pricing is about even. We're not big enough to be a <vendor> shop and I've heard enough good things about Cisco to have me tempted - just be ...

Cisco expands its USC server line up to include AMD 7000-series EPYC processors. See also: What would Steve Jobs think of today's Apple? The new offerings come in the form of the Cisco UCS C4200 ...