Cisco's New Data Center Architecture

Cisco Expands UCS, Data Center Vision - eWeek: Cisco Systems is evolving its data center vision, adding in what officials are calling unified network services, introducing new switching capabilities and expanding its all-in-one solution to include a blade server.

Cisco addresses virtualized datacenter security - David Chernicoff at ZDNet: With the most recent announcements, Cisco takes the additional important step of adding flexible virtualized security to their existing virtual machine deployment and management tools.

Raising the Bar Again on Data Center Switching - The Cisco Data Center Blog: "At the foundation of this architectural framework are three pillars — Unified Fabric , Unified Computing and new third architectural pillar Unified Network Services (UNS)," writes Cisco's Kash Shaikh. "We also announced key Innovations across the data center portfolio in each of these pillars."

Cisco adds slim blade with fat memory to UCS - ChannelRegister: The new B230-M1 aims to give customers who can afford to pay a premium for Xeon 6500 or 7500 chips a different option, which is a half-width blade that has 32 DDR3 memory slots. That's not quite as much as the 48 memory slots in the fat B250 series blades, but the 256 GB supported on the new B230 blade is going to be suitable for a number of customers with heavy memory demands.

Cisco's data center blitz - InfoWorld has a slide show featuring photos of the new producst introduced by Cisco.

Cisco slots new blade into UCS portfolio - SearchDataCenter.com: Cisco touts the B230 M1 as a good fit for high-performance, transaction-intensive applications, such as single-threaded database applications, said Todd Brannan, Cisco's senior marketing manager for data center solutions. Those applications may or may not run on top of virtualization - an intriguing fit for a platform that Cisco has been pitched as a natural complement to virtualization.