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Posted by Cisco da Gama - August 25, 2006 on 4:18 pm | In Cisco | No Comments

 


Update on the Cisco / Nuova connection

Posted by colinmcnamara - August 16, 2006 on 4:15 pm | In Cisco | No Comments

This Nuova aquisition just became much more interesting.

I found an intersting article on Light Reading
Let me summarize the interesting Items.

Team hightlights
1. Nuova is led by Cisco’s former Chief Development Officer, Mario Mazzola
2. J.R. Rivers, a Cisco Distinguished Engineer who led the team that developed the Catalyst 3750 switch is on board.
3. Tom Lyon, who founded Ipsilion is also on board.

Visibility
This company is almost entirely in stealth mode. No press releases or released products.

Funding
Asside from Cisco’s investments they have refused all offers of VC funding.

Gossip
from Light Reading –

“The startup is presumed to be working on a virtualization project in the storage networking space — at the intersection of storage, networking, and computing.

The idea is that they’re trying to “aggregate compute IO from the server and centralize it into a single or small number of network elements, connected back to the servers via a high-speed low-latency ‘closed’ network,” one source says. This frees up processor memory and CPU cycles so that larger clusters of servers are possible.”

My opinion

I think that Cisco plans to jump into the clustered storage market head first. Netapp has just finished the integration of Spinnaker software with the deployment of Ontap GX. Isilion is making a killing on distributed storage. And everyone in their mother is trying to copy Googles GFS filesystem.

I think that Cisco is going to leverage the recently deployed Storage Services Module with its storage virtualization features to create an abstraction layer between products such as Nuova’s and the classic FC or SCSI connected server.


–Colin McNamara




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Update on the Cisco / Nuova connection

 


Will Cisco succede where Sun has failed?

Posted by colinmcnamara - August 12, 2006 on 8:10 pm | In Cisco | No Comments

News just in, Cisco has aquired Nuova systems. They have a distributed computing and storage platform very similar to plan 9.
News Release

This news is interesting as it shows that Cisco is continuing their push into the application layer.
Its Application Oriented Networking blade directly competes with IBM. The content services switch competes with Sun, F5, Juniper and Netscaler. If Cisco can bring a distributed backend to the market that integrates smoothly with the middleware solutions they are currently proposing it will be unstopable. Anybody care to jump on this bandwagon?

–Colin
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CCIE #18233
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“The difficult we do immediately, the impossible just takes a little longer.”

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Will Cisco succede where Sun has failed?