Cisco and IBM have announced a new partnership and new products to tie the network and datacenter closer together to reduce IT complexity while increasing performance. The two companies said their “global strategic alliance” will integrate Cisco’s networking technology with IBM’s systems and software through products and services such as an IBM-Cisco switch for IBM’s eServer BladeCenter, improved server load balancing, and Tivoli Provisioning Manager and Storage Area Network (SAN) Manager enhanced for Cisco’s datacenter network and SAN-switch technologies.
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Cisco, IBM Synergize Switches and Servers
Posted by: Jay Lyman April 30, 2004 11:40 AMCisco and IBM have announced a new partnership and new products to tie the network and datacenter closer together to reduce IT complexity while increasing performance. The two companies said their “global strategic alliance” will integrate Cisco’s networking technology with IBM’s systems and software through products and services such as an IBM-Cisco switch for IBM’s eServer BladeCenter, improved server load balancing, and Tivoli Provisioning Manager and Storage Area Network (SAN) Manager enhanced for Cisco’s datacenter network and SAN-switch technologies.