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Cisco has announced two rack mounted data centre servers to complement the blade servers it announced earlier this year. The company said that the 1RU and 2RY servers, part of its Unified Computing System strategy, represented an entry level into UCS and provided more choice for customers.

The new C-Series rack-mount servers, which will be available in the fourth quarter of the year, have been designed to help accelerate the adoption of the Cisco unified computing and data centre virtualisation system. Like the predecessor B-Series blades, the C-Series rack mount servers use X86 Intel Xeon 5500 processors and have been optimised for Cisco’s memory expansion and virtualized adapter technologies, which are integral to UCS.

Source: Techworld

Dell has announced a partnership with the company that will see Dell use its 6Sigma DC virtual data centre modeling tools in its efforts to peddle products and services. These days, IT shops are not just looking to replace servers and storage to support more workloads or just make existing ones go faster. They want help reducing costs on the IT infrastructure as well as the means of improving efficiencies and reducing costs in the facilities that wrap around that infrastructure.

Albert Esser, vice president of power and infrastructure solutions at Dell’s Product Group says that the company does not have the luxury of doing data centre engagements with “armies of consultants,” as IBM and HP can certainly do. It will instead rely on tools to assess current data centers and then model changes to them to see the effect of new gear, new cooling gadgetry, and other technologies inside the data centre before the customer commits to the plan.

Source: The Register