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Cisco Bidding To Takeover Data Center

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Cisco has made bold new steps that could make them a huge player in the data center market. Cisco can take a big piece of the data center pie with their new Unified Computing System initiative.

The Unified Computing System is Cisco’s bid to take IBM and HP head-on in gaining entry and control of corporate data centers, through the use of virtualization and other technologies that consolidate the use of thousands of servers, applications and other resources. Right now, Cisco is a much smaller company in terms of revenue and has built most of its business on supplying network gear that connects data centers together (See chart).

But it now wants to be the behind-the-scenes coordinator of cloud computing, allowing “any application, at any time” to be delivered anywhere, said Rob Lloyd, executive vice president designate, Worldwide Operations for Cisco.

For competitors in the data center segment, this announcement could be the “shot heard round the world.”