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Cisco And Springpath Take On Hyperconvergence Incumbents

March 1, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Cisco And Springpath Take On Hyperconvergence Incumbents

The convergence of servers and networks forced the hand of networking giant Cisco Systems back in the late 2000s, compelling it to create the Unified Computing System blade servers and their integrated networking and launch them nearly seven years ago now, upsetting the balance of power in the datacenter. …

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