UCS is dead, what's left of the product is for sale. No growth, low margins, no ARM strategy. Who would buy the carcass??
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Does Equinix buy Cisco UCS?
cloud providers can architect their own white-box solutions... eliminating the need for cisco equipment
Doesn’t ‘the cloud’ need hardware in the data center to exist?
Or does it just function in the sky?
Whale oil, right.....
What is the ETA for the M6?
Why would anyone at this point reinvest in actual server chassis hardware. The cloud has already won. But I guess someone has to buy the last gallon of whale oil.
Yes, RIP UCS
The M3 is an 8 year old server. How old is your laptop? Honestly that is just negligent life cycle planning if you are still running those in production in 2021. You could probably run 4 times the workload on a new M5 - saving rack space, power, maintenance, and hassle.
_My_ laptop is 7 yrs old and still running fine, although it's been declared "obsolete" and can't be serviced by the manufacturer nor can I buy parts to repair it. Yes, it's time to replace it, but I'm waiting to see what the impact of the M1 Apple Silicon has before buying a new laptop.
My work laptop is 1 month old, but we keep them for 3 yrs. Most data center servers are replaced every 3-5 years. I never said I was running the M3 "in production". It's in a lab and we got it long after the M4's had been released. There's just no budget to replace the M3's with newer ones even at the Cisco internal prices. Most of the VMs running there are legacy systems for customer support. We thought the contract was going to end last year, but it got extended by another 2 yrs so no we have to decide if we want to limp along for 24 months or expend budget and time to replace the systems with newer ones when the need for them ends in 24 months.
@1irl - The M3 is an 8 year old server. How old is your laptop? Honestly that is just negligent life cycle planning if you are still running those in production in 2021. You could probably run 4 times the workload on a new M5 - saving rack space, power, maintenance, and hassle.
HP is laughing all the way to the bank, meanwhile Cisco is singing Help Please, Help Please.
you were stupid for buying UCS at all. reap what you sow.
Well, UCS has problems regardless of whether or not it's dead. The M3 models are contractually required to be supported until their end of support date, which is 31 Dec 2021. However, you can only access the Cisco Integrated Management Console (CIMC) remotely via the web using Flash. Adobe announced that Flash would be EOL 31 Dec 2020 and that the player would block Flash after 12 Jan 2021.
How do you manage your M3 chassis if you can't get into it without Flash? Supposedly there wasn't enough internal RAM in the CIMC to support HTML5, so any customers w/ M3 chassis that they failed to replace before now are dead in the water. I just hope that I can manage mine via the console in the data center once I can get permission to enter the DC, which I can't get unless the box falls over. I'm guessing my manager will have to decide to decommission the VMs running on it and junk all our M3 hardware or decide to ask the finance guys for enough budget to get newer M-series hardware to replace the M3's.
Layoffs in RTP?
This thread is stupid and BS. UCS is not dead. Washington is on the verge of being released along with the M6 line.
Maybe Chuck listens to this analyst: Cisco should junk UCS servers, says analyst - https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/11/13/cisco-compute-revenues/
UCS was created in a different time. That time is over.
Lenovo or Dell maybe?
not fake. i just had the 'chat' with my manager.
time to sell some more buildings in san jose. there is always money in the banana stand
Fake news.
yes, huge RIF today. UCS PLM, engineering all severely impacted. project california comes to an end!!