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Cisco UCS Product Updates

An Epyc new addition to the UCS Family!

Posted on May 31, 2018 by ucsguru

  Back in February of this year, when I read an article in The Register, announcing that Raghu Nambiar, the then chief technology officer for UCS servers had joined AMD. I didn’t think too much of it, but when I also … Continue reading →

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Introducing Cisco UCS S-Series

Posted on November 1, 2016 by ucsguru

Today Cisco announced the Cisco UCS S Series line of storage servers. Now the more eagle eyed among you may think that the new Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server looks very much like the Cisco UCS C3260 Rack server (Colusa), … Continue reading →

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Cisco UCS Generation 3 First Look.

Posted on February 2, 2016 by ucsguru

I noticed last week that Cisco have just released the eagerly awaited Cisco UCS 3.1 code “Granada” on CCO. Whenever a major or a minor code drop appears the first thing I always do is read the  Release Notes , to see … Continue reading →

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Cisco UCS New M4 Additions!

Posted on September 8, 2014 by ucsguru

Following on from last weeks big announcements and the teaser on the new M4 line-up I am pleased to say I can now post the details of that new line-up. The new M4 servers, are based on the Intel Grantley-EP … Continue reading →

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Cisco UCS: Major Announcement

Posted on September 4, 2014 by ucsguru

Hi All It’s finally September the 4th which means only one thing, the biggest single day of Cisco UCS announcements since the products launch 5 years ago. The strapline of the launch is “Computing at every scale” And “Scale” both … Continue reading →

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Cisco UCS has had a baby (Mother and Daughterboard doing well)

Posted on July 22, 2014 by ucsguru

As many of you know I am now in full CCIE Datacenter study mode, and as such, I never seem to have as much time to blog and answer posted questions as I would like. However I felt compelled to … Continue reading →

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UCS Manager 2.2 (El Capitan) Released

Posted on December 17, 2013 by ucsguru

Last week saw the latest major update to UCS Manager in the form of version 2.2 codenamed “El Capitan” It certainly doesn’t seem a year since I wrote the summary for the then eagily awaited 2.1 “Delmar” release” but I guess time really does fly … Continue reading →

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UCS Manager 2.1

Posted on November 9, 2012 by ucsguru

As you may be aware a major UCS Manager update has been in development for the past 12 Months or so, I have been keeping a keen eye on this as there are several aspects to the new release which … Continue reading →

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UCS M3 Servers Announced

Posted on March 8, 2012 by ucsguru

Get ready to “Pimp your Cloud” as today Cisco launched the B200 M3 blade server, aswell as the C220 M3, and C240 M3 rack mount servers to co-incide with Intels E5-2600 “Romley” launch last Tuesday. These new 2 socket (Sandy … Continue reading →

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Product Update

Posted on February 22, 2012 by ucsguru

UCS 6296UP Fabric Interconnect If like me you do some quite large UCS designs, the 6296UP is a very welcome addition to the UCS product portfolio, often In designs consisting of 10 Chassis or more each requiring very high IO, … Continue reading →

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