All Posts Tagged With: "Cisco Systems"
Cisco’s John McCool Talks Virtualization
NetworkWorld published a great interview yesterday with John McCool, senior VP of data center, switching and security at Cisco. McCool sees a great future for virtualization around the company’s most successful product in its entire history, the Catalyst 6500 (and its successor, the Nexus 7000 Series, which was recently unveiled), combined with its own forray into virtualizing the data center with its Data Center 3.0 initiative.
11Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedCisco Talks Up Data Center 3.0 Initiative, Wants To “Demistify Virtualization”
Cisco Systems today announced updates to several of its key products to accelerate applications in Data Center 3.0, Cisco’s vision for a virtualized data center tied together by a unified network fabric.
24Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedCisco And EMC To Merge?
We love rumors. This time, it’s not about EMC selling off its majority stake in VMware to say, Intel. President and chief editor of TMC, Rich Tehrani, is throwing another sweet-sounding one into the air: an upcoming merger between Cisco and EMC.
19May2008 | Robin Wauters | 4 comments | ContinuedIBM / Cisco Eyeing Acquisition of Citrix?
Nasdaq traders bid up Citrix stock Tuesday on takeover rumors that have either IBM or Cisco purchasing the application delivery vendor. Citrix’s stock went from a low of $30.60 Tuesday to a high of $33.75. Rumors of Citrix being purchased fueled the higher trading prices, says Jeffrey Gaggin, an enterprise software analyst for Avian Securities.
9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedCisco To Acquire Remaining Interest In Nuova Systems
Cisco today announced its intent to purchase the remaining 20 % interest in San Jose-based Nuova Systems, a start up focused on the development of next-generation products for the data center market. Cisco today also introduced the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series, the first product developed by Nuova.
9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVideo: Cisco Nexus 5000 And Virtualization
DataCenterKnowledge posted a video presentation today we would love to share with you too. It features Dante Malagrino of Cisco and Ed Bugnion of Nuova Systems with an explanation of how data center managers can use the new Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches to optimize their virtualization efforts.
9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedEMC Updates SAN Virtualization Solution Invista 2.1
EMC has introduced the latest version of Invista 2.1, its flagship SAN virtualization solution. Invista is an enterprise-class, network-based storage virtualization that combines EMC application software and hardware with intelligent SAN switches from Brocade and Cisco.
3Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedCisco Introduces Nexus 7000 Series: Virtual Switches for Future Data Centers?
Cisco Systems this week starts pitching a new series of switches, called
Nexus 7000 , as the first component of its Data Center 3.0 architecture and as the successor to the Catalyst 6500, the most successful product in Cisco’s history. Like the Catalyst 6500, the Nexus is a chassis intended for the enterprise [...]
