For the fourth installment in NETWORK COMPUTING’s five-part examination of the changes transforming the data center, we start with the shot heard around the IT world, when in March 2009, network powerhouse Cisco announced that it was taking on its server/data center rivals–HP, IBM and Sun (now Oracle)–with its Unified Computing System strategy, a.k.a. Project California. In a video supporting the March 16 announcement, John Chambers said, “It isn’t just a new technology, it’s an approach to virtualization and to the data center that is very unique in the industry.”
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