| | By Examiner Staff @ Monday, March 16, 2009 7:41 AM
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| | Network giant Cisco is expected to announce today it will start selling pre-configured blade servers – putting it head to head with companies it cooperates with such as Hewlett Packard (HP).
The blade servers, according to reports, will come preconfigured with virualisation software from Vmare, and software from BMC.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Intel and Microsoft will endorse Cisco’s move. Intel will probably benefit because the blade servers will use Nehalem microprocessors that the chip giant will announce at the end of the month.
Naturally Intel wants to sell more microprocessors, but its existing customer base, including major vendors as well as board makers and system integrators, won’t exactly be applauding from the sidelines.
The irony is that some years ago Intel thought it could invade Cisco’s network infrastructure space – a forlorn hope as it transpired. X
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