Cisco UCS has three main components: blade server chassis and blades, a fabric interconnect, which is networking based on Cisco Nexus 5000 switch hardware and software, and a management system ...

Cisco engineers spent a year creating its new UCS rack server chassis and nodes in a move to attack compute-intensive, scale out workloads environments. "This absolutely represents the highest density ...

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In short, UCS is built around a familiar concept — the blade chassis — but rearchitects it to enable both greater manageability and greater scalability. For the architectural background, read my ...

Conceivably, an entire rack of UCS chassis running 56 blades could be driven with only 56 data cables, 28 if only four 10Gb links are required on each chassis. From there, the pair of FIs are ...

Encapsulating Cisco's Unified Computing System into a few paragraphs is a daunting challenge. Cisco UCS is quite unlike any other computing platform on the market today, and while there are certainly ...

Over at the AMD Blog, Scot Aylor writes that the company’s EPYC processors are coming to Cisco’s popular UCS server platform. The new, density-optimized Cisco UCS C4200 Series Rack Server Chassis and ...

The 7010 will be a sort of distribution router and switch for (at the beginning) one UCS chassis and 2 Dell m1000e chassis. The Dell boxes will almost certain not have FEX modules, probably will have ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...