Recently Sun Microsystems brought to light its Nehalem-based server line-up. In addition, it also introduced a networking product specifically a blade network switch. The innovations of Sun are no about giving a hard competition to Cisco in the server market. The launch of these products is safeguarding the poor market of Sun as it is facing the worst scenario in the server market. It was also in whisper that the company was about to be acquired by IBM. However, no confirmation has been received on this.
Last month Cisco made surprising announcement by offering a blade server as the significant segments of its Unified Computing System. However, Sun says that it has made a new product for the function of its blade servers and it does not require the help of Cisco’s switches. The new product of Sun comes as the Virtual Network Express Module shortly NEM is a hardware which can be slid into a blade chassis. It performs all the task of an aggregation switch which carries out the traffic between the blades and 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch. John Fowler, the executive vice president of Sun Microsystems business states that the new silicon product has set users free from depending upon a switch borrowed from a third-party vendor.
Last month Cisco made surprising announcement by offering a blade server as the significant segments of its Unified Computing System. However, Sun says that it has made a new product for the function of its blade servers and it does not require the help of Cisco’s switches. The new product of Sun comes as the Virtual Network Express Module shortly NEM is a hardware which can be slid into a blade chassis. It performs all the task of an aggregation switch which carries out the traffic between the blades and 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch. John Fowler, the executive vice president of Sun Microsystems business states that the new silicon product has set users free from depending upon a switch borrowed from a third-party vendor.
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