Nexus: Cisco's Big Iron

Over at Network Computing, my old boss Fritz Nelson looks at Cisco's latest enterprise switching platform, Nexus:

"Storage, Ethernet, virtualization, some security; it's all there in one box, up to 15 Tbps capacity and expected to grow...

But alongside the bulky performance gains a bucket of money provides, you also get to slim down on everything from management to power consumption to resource utilization, thanks to the ability to centrally manage the virtualization of your storage and servers through the switch. Fewer cables, better virtualization performance, less management headache."

Meanwhile, our Andrew Hickey eyes solution provider opportunities in Nexus' NX-OS:

"Key features of NX-OS include zero service-disruption upgrades, virtual device contexts, graceful systems operations and XML interfaces to access switching information or any command...

The modular design provides fault containment and automatic recover so processes can be started, stopped and upgraded remotely. That remote access gives resellers the tools to manage data centers remotely, [Doug Gourlay, Cisco's director of data center solutions] said, and helps them hit and maintain SLAs.

Nexus starts at $75,000, but Cisco promises big savings in power and other expenses in the data center.

Posted by Joe Caponi at 10:26 AM, January 30, 2008

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