Cisco unified computing
I have been following the excellent Data Center Knowledge blog lately, they have a good write-up on Cisco getting into the server business.
However it’s pretty unclear to me what “unified computing” means exactly, it seems like they are talking about some kind of virtualization approach, the end result being that you can buy all your server and networking gear from Cisco and have your own private cloud.
Hard to tell though, the NY times article is pretty fluffy (“New tools developed by VMWare, the market leader, make it possible to shuffle business applications around a data center just by pointing a computer mouse at an icon on the screen.”) and the Cisco blog posts are fairly grandiose (“If not us, who? If not now, when?”).
I guess I’ll just have to wait until they actually have something to sell. I would rather have a step towards commoditization and not away from it. If Cisco is going to sell solid-state servers with the same kind of support and reliability as their networking gear, then that sounds great. It so far does not sound like that is what this is.
