Not For S/MB
Technically, I work for a small business. We have about 100 employees, annual sales figures in the seven-digit range, and only about 15 PCs in our company. We have 50 terminals for most of the staff....
View ArticleRE: Cisco blade servers - Mix, match, or mash?
Cisco has had a very difficult time integrating all their products under a unified enterprise management system. They need to stay focused on the network (voice & data). Personally, I think their...
View ArticleRE: Cisco blade servers - Mix, match, or mash?
I manage a network of over 1000 cisco switches including the 3560, 3750, 6500, 4500 and 2900 series hardware. I wish some more time would be spent focusing on producing quality software for these...
View ArticleRE: Cisco blade servers - Mix, match, or mash?
I can't wait for "Oh you want service pack 2 for that OS? You need to buy all equipment since that SP isn't supported on the current IOS. Too bad it's only 2 years old and alredy obsolete. That will be...
View ArticleRE: Cisco blade servers - Mix, match, or mash?
I do agree with your opinion. It would be a tremendous investment for a fully converged solution, and will it be worth it? As cloud computing and DC outsourcing is picking up speed these days, why...
View ArticleRE: Cisco blade servers - Mix, match, or mash?
If these blade servers are anything like the products they sold to us lately, I m in trouble. We bought 3 ASR 1006 w/ redundant processors, all at the "friendly discounted guinea pig" price of 750K. I...
View ArticleOh Yes!!
I agree!! We spend lot of money in Cisco Call Manager and now is out of production and unsupported (we finally get support if we purchase a 24x7x4 smartnet)... and we have other similar stuff (unable...
View ArticleRE: Cisco blade servers - Mix, match, or mash?
as everyone here has already stated, cisco has had issues with the integration of their products under one platform. I would think it would be difficult too. However, if they make blade servers to run...
View ArticleSurely the ideal candidate for blades...
So an HP C3000 enclosure, 3/4 Blades, 1/2 Storage Blades, VMWare Infrastructure 3 with VCenterYou then have a self contained, fully resilient, eco friendly, ROI friendly, support friendly...
View ArticleNot For S/MB
Do not listen to the guy that tells you that you need blades to run your infrastructure. Blade systems will cause you no end of grief. Now if you want to virtualize a bunch of stuff on a few servers,...
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I just wish that CISCO would number these darn things in sequence. You are correct concerning the software and the interop. There have been numerous issues with the interop between firmware and IOS...
View ArticleRE: Cisco blade servers - Mix, match, or mash?
I agree this is million Dollar reply for Cisco
View ArticleTwo thumbs down
In the old days, the battle cry in computing environments was "no-one ever got fired for buying IBM". Then IBM got complacent, their servers stayed expensive and their performance so-so, and where are...
View Articlebring it on - this pushes IT mgmt to think properly...
Go for it Cisco!!! Of course Cisco kit is expensive; they have profit margins to maintain. As for firmware updates, thats normal: make sure the architecture roadmap and T+C's are read and understood...
View Articlein praise of Adtran
I've had similar experience with Adtran routers. Saved my company a bundle of money by buying Adtran 3205 routers with T1 cards. About 2/3 of the price of similarly-equipped Cisco equipment upfront,...
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