Cisco dishes out Rack mountable servers with extensive memory UCS C 250M1
By Tarry Singh at 4 June, 2009, 2:21 am
Cisco VP of Marketing Soni Jiandani said many customers are interested in the memory expansion capabilities of the B-Series Blade. Cisco has boosted the memory capacity of the Xeon 5500, using a custom ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) to provide the processor with a four-fold increase in the number of memory modules it can access. This expands a UCS Xeon 5500 system from 144GB to 384GB, and also gives users the option of using more affordable memory configurations.
“The Cisco memory innovation is now also available in a rackmount form factor,” said Jiandani, adding that the extra memory will expand the types of applications and workloads each server can manage.
The Unified Computing System brings together hardware – including the new B-Series blade server and network adapters – that seamlessly connect with storage systems over a high-speed unified network fabric powered by Cisco’s new Nexus family of switches, enabling virtualized assets to move seamlessly across the data center and the Internet. Cisco is also introducing new UCS Manager software to centrally manage and provision resources.
“In a rapidly changing data center marketplace, the Unified Computing C-Series Rack-Mount Server will provide us new services opportunities and a unique on-ramp that appeals to a wider range of our customers that are planning to integrate Unified Computing into their existing data centers,” said Bob Olwig, vice president of systems integrator World Wide Technology.
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