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Cisco gets aggressive with blade pricing
CISCO has released more information on its Unified Computing System for data centres, including pricing and performance benchmarks.
Cisco says each UCS component, which includes blade, CPU, disk, memory and I/O cards costs about 10 per cent less in a configured system because of its ability to converge host bus adapter and 10Gbit/sec. The fact it uses an Ethernet network interface card capabilities, trims $725 off the price.
However, in a configuration of about 320 blades, UCS costs about one-third the price because, Cisco claims, there is a ten times reduction in the number of Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches, management modules and associated software licences.
Cisco said the system will function with existing server hardware and include APIs to integrate with other systems.
The result is that a 320-blade configuration will cost $500,000, which is a third of the price of a normal version. µ
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Actually it is the same article, with the WRONG conclusion - cut and pasted around the web. The Cisco blades cost about the same, but their new design lets them reduce the infrastructure - switches, chassis, power supply and management modules. So total system cost is about 30% less in total - not 2/3rds less, according to the actual Cisco presentation that I saw.
It doesn't say 1/3 less, it says 1/3 of, ie 2/3 less. And if you google around, you'll find plenty of other sources quoting the same figures.
Nick - nobody sells systems containing hundreds of servers for a third less than other players - how come no alarm bells went off that maybe the other flack got it wrong before you Nicked it. You ought to read the materials before pasting a story into a column. Will thye change your byline to "Nick n Clip" instead of "Cut and Paste".
I used to come to theinq for good stuff, I now come to see (and grin at) Nick's duffer style journalism.
"which is a third of the price of a normal version"
Normal version? of blades? you're such a muppet!