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Is Cisco fighting a losing battle over SDN?

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This is different from the current software first movement in that Cisco’s approach is based on their hardware first view of the network. However, if you were to go by the response to the number of vendors supporting the NSX ecosystem you’d think the entire industry is going against this hardware first religion. HP – Top of Rack.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. But how revolutionary and simplifying are they?

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

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Essentially the punchline is this: Weve taken the most commonly-purchased hardware configuration and management tools used by mission-critical IT Ops, and integrated them into a single product with a single GUI that you can install and use in ~ 1 day. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again.

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Fountainhead: IO Virtualization: The ?Hypervisor? for Your.

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Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. HP VirtualConnect ). Workloads, NICs, HBAs, networking addressing and storage connections (complete with fabric-based load balancing) can all be cloned… starting with the IO and networking profiles, made possible through IOV.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

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Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), BTW, there is another nice resource -- a white paper commissioned by HP (!) executed by Michelle Bailey at IDC.