In case you had not heard, Cisco has announced they are getting into the server business. According to the New York Times, Cisco will release a server product within the next few months. (Some blogs are reporting as early as March). The new servers will be designed 100% for use as hosts to VMware’s ESX Server. From a technology perspective I find this exciting and believe this will drive innovation from IBM, HP and Dell. I do have one area of concern though…
At VMWorld 2007, John Chambers made a fantastic keynote presentation of Cisco’s new concept called Datacenter 3.0. I found the presentation to paint a very exciting picture of where virtualization was taking the IT world. With virtualized Servers, Storage and Networks, the computing “Cloud” is a reality. I am a little concerned to learn his vision may not be one of an open, standards based, ecosystem; but possibly one of a proprietary construct.
We will keep an eye on this and report back as new information becomes available.




