Cisco says it considered HP, IBM for blade server; 5 tips for a better enterprise mobility strategy

Daily News AM Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Cisco It's Time to Join the Unified Movement Unified Computing is now a reality. The transition to unified architectures started with the introduction of the Cisco Nexus series, supporting unified fabric. Over 1,000 customers have already decided to adopt this environment in deploying the Nexus 7000, Nexus 5000, and Nexus 2000, or evaluating Nexus 1000V virtual switches. Spotlight Story Cisco says it considered HP, IBM for blade server By Jim Duffy Cisco considered HP and IBM as blade server partners for its new Unified Computing System, which is designed as a single architecture for data center computing, storage, networking and virtualization. Cisco marketing vice president David Lawler said the company "did have conversations" with HP and IBM about multiple technologies, like unified fabric and the Nexus 1000V virtual switch, which is believed to be an element within UCS. 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