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December 11, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco & MapR set a Software Defined Storage World Record

This post was co-authored by Rajesh Shroff  66 years in the making! It sounds like a long time, but first we had to wait for a few milestones to precede us: 1951 – UNIVAC pioneers use of magnetic tape for storage 1993 – Severe Tire Damage is the first band to live stream 2007 – Ne…

July 28, 2017

DATA CENTER

It’s OK to be fashionably late when you bring 3 more Cisco UCS world records

When we announced our new M5 servers, we posted six new world record benchmarks. This late last week received confirmation of three more world records.     SPECjBB®2015 MultijVM – #1 4-socket server result for critical-jOPS. The Cisco UCS C480 M5 delivered 229,029 – a 78% increase wh…

July 11, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS continues its world record tradition!

Contributing author: Vijay Durairaj Today we are announcing our latest generation of UCS servers based on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family and 6 industry standard world record benchmarks. Since Cisco first entered the server business, we’ve been setting records and our new M5 servers are n…