Cisco touts 10,000 UCS customers

GigaOM (Jan 18 2012) Servers

1. Cisco Systems says it now has 10,000 Unified Computing Systems customers for it’s not quite three-year-old product. That’s up from 4,000 customers a year ago. The March 2009 UCS announcement was the first shot fired in what became a raging battle by vendors to sell hardware that melded compute and networking in a single box, tightly integrated with storage. Since then HP and Oracle entered the fray. These converged infrastructure servers are pricier than the commodity boxes that power most webscale operations but are pitched as a way to consolidate workloads, cut wiring, and save power. The 10,000-customer number is impressive because these are the sort of IT buyers that are notoriously conservative, said Brian Modoff, analyst with Deutsche Bank. The figure also represents growth off a very small base — Cisco still doesn’t crack the top five server vendors by unit market share. (Read Full Article)

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