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Branded the Cisco UCS C-Series rack-mounted servers offer several innovations according to Cisco.
The company said the system includes: Access to unified fabric through a low-latency lossless 10-gigabits-per-second Ethernet foundation that enables a "wire-once" deployment model; Cisco patented memory extension technology that yields more than 2.5 times the addressable memory of currently available two-socket rack-mount platforms; this provides the ability to support significantly more virtual machines per server and to deliver the scalability to run large memory applications; Cisco virtualized adapter that provides adapter consolidation and virtualization optimization capabilities by enabling each virtualized adapter to define up to 128 Ethernet or Fibre Channel connections.
The products will ship in Q4 this year.
Meanwhile the company has expanded its Value Incentive Program to encourage its resellers to set up data center sales teams. The company said it wants to grow its reseller base selling into the data center market and introduced two IT certifications. Its data center channel solutions program, designed to help enable and accelerate the sale of tested, validated reference IT solution designs that incorporate products from industry-leading data center vendors, including EMC, Microsoft, NetApp, Red Hat, and VMware.
Branded the Cisco UCS C-Series rack-mounted servers offer several innovations according to Cisco.
The company said the system includes: Access to unified fabric through a low-latency lossless 10-gigabits-per-second Ethernet foundation that enables a "wire-once" deployment model; Cisco patented memory extension technology that yields more than 2.5 times the addressable memory of currently available two-socket rack-mount platforms; this provides the ability to support significantly more virtual machines per server and to deliver the scalability to run large memory applications; Cisco virtualized adapter that provides adapter consolidation and virtualization optimization capabilities by enabling each virtualized adapter to define up to 128 Ethernet or Fibre Channel connections.
The products will ship in Q4 this year.
Meanwhile the company has expanded its Value Incentive Program to encourage its resellers to set up data center sales teams. The company said it wants to grow its reseller base selling into the data center market and introduced two IT certifications. Its data center channel solutions program, designed to help enable and accelerate the sale of tested, validated reference IT solution designs that incorporate products from industry-leading data center vendors, including EMC, Microsoft, NetApp, Red Hat, and VMware.