Cisco’s New Data Center Plan Looks Promising. What Will IBM Think?

Finally cisco getting out the catalyst to Nexus 7000.

I read this post on google news.. looks very interesting.. a virtualization on the network architecture.

the company announced the Nexus 7000, its biggest upgrade of the basic corporate network switch since Cisco started selling its now-ubiquitous Catalyst line in the mid-1990s. The box is so fast it can download all of NetFlix’ 90,000 movies in 38 seconds, or copy the entire searchable Web in 7.5 minutes, the company claims.

But the speeds and feeds of the new box are not the big change.

The real news is a new layer of software, called a fabric, that is designed to orchestrate the efforts of the various kinds of technology found within any data center. Rather than just oversee the Cisco gear that moves bits in and out of the building, this fabric can also be used to control the servers that process those bits, the storage gear that holds them, and the applications that do something useful with them.

Cisco rep
The Nexus 7000 10-Slot Chassis will ship in a few weeks, the 18-slot in the 2H of this CY.

The reality of the Unified Fabric in the Data Center is that it is consistent with the principles we have used that make networks scalable- federated communications systems linked together with open-standards protocols.

In this case we bring the best of Ethernet, IP, FibreChannel, and High Performance Computing together greatly simplifying the overall data center architecture. Imagine if you will that changing the connectivity options of a server was a SW command instead of an outage event, cable pulling, and adding new interfaces.

~ by blahpedia on January 29, 2008.