EDITOR'S NOTE

Good Afternoon,

Cisco Systems rolled out the big guns today for its 'Unified Computing' launch - with everyone from VMware, Microsoft, Intel, EMC, BMC and Accenture on hand to talk up its strategy.

With Cisco already having delivered several Nexus line of switches, its unified fabric and fabric extender, today's announcement boils down to the launch of Cisco blade servers - without any details of the kit being available.

We do note however, that several key Australian partners are already certified to roll out these products (see our story on Alphawest and Dimension Data).

-- Brett Winterford

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford + VNU News | March 17, 2009

Cisco and VMware have announced a partnership designed to dominate data centres using VMware's virtualisation tools and a new Cisco platform that brings together computing, network and storage hardware.

By Ry Crozier | March 17, 2009

Primus has revealed for the first time that an ambient temperature above 35°C, power cuts and a single diesel generator all contributed to the Primus data centre outage in Melbourne in February.

By Brett Winterford | March 17, 2009

Outspoken Westpac technology executive David Backley has resigned from the bank.

By Staff writers | March 17, 2009

Almost half of enterprise and government organisations surveyed by IDC on Novell's behalf have indicated Linux will be their primary server platform within five years.

By Shaun Nichols | March 17, 2009

A new malware scam is using fabricated reports of a terrorist attack to infect users.

By Brett Winterford | March 17, 2009

Ericsson has achieved data transfer rates of more than 500Mbps in what it said is the world's first live demonstration of a new VDSL2-based technology.

By Brett Winterford | March 17, 2009

Alphawest and Dimension Data will lead the technical implementation of Cisco's new data center strategy.

By Shaun Nichols | March 17, 2009

Longtime rivals AMD and Intel may be headed towards yet another legal showdown.

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