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IBM Webcast: Performance Review of the Flex System Network Architecture vs. Cisco UCS

Sponsor: IBM Corporation
IBM Webcast: Performance Review of the Flex System Network Architecture vs. Cisco UCS

Abstract

Tolly Speaker:

Kevin Tolly, Founder, The Tolly Group

Available on Demand

Webcast Summary:

IBM's Flex System network architecture is designed to provide high performance, non-blocking connectivity among blade servers as well between racks of servers and the data center backbone. The fundamental network performance is a function of architecture. IBM and Cisco Systems have chosen very different approaches to architecting server communications in a blade server/rack environment.

Learn from Kevin Tolly and Michael Easterly how IBM's Flex System architecture outperforms the Cisco UCS design

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The webcast is a summary of Tolly report #214104. That report can be downloaded by clicking the link below:

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