Cisco is to move into the rack-mount server business as part of its drive towards what it calls “unified computing ‘.
Unified computing, says the company, Involves combining network, virtualization and compute resources into a single system. Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series rack-mount servers, announced on Wednesday, add a new element to a portfolio that already includes UCS blade servers.
Like the UCS blade servers, Which were announced in March, the C-Series rack-mount servers are based on Intel’s Xeon 5500 chips Nehalem.
Cisco’s UCS range is the company’s first foray into the server hardware business. The company is better known for its networking products.
Also on Wednesday, Cisco announced two new IT certification for individual customers and channel partners: Cisco Unified Computing Data Center Design Specialist and the Cisco Unified Data Center Computing Support Specialist.
The certifications cover skills such as storage networking, data center networking infrastructure, data center services and application virtualization.
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