As most of you know, I try to keep work-specific stuff off the blog whenever possible. Yes, my Cisco UCS primer post is still one of my top three[1] blog posts of all time, but it was written before I applied to Cisco the first time around, if memory serves. Of course, it was DDR3-1600 memory back then, so….

Anyway, my friend Craig Simpson pinged me on Linkedin the other day asking if there was anything going on with UCS these days. And, sure enough, there is. I originally gave him a few links, but when he wanted to throw them up on his blog, I offered to write something a bit more exciting than links.

I don’t want to spoil it, but if you’re a fan of UCS Mini or AMD processors, or both, you’ll want to check it out here:

https://realworlducs.com/cisco-ucs-hot-summer-announcements-and-innovations/

I will give you one spoiler here though: Up to 2048 cores, 48TB of RAM, and 734TB of storage in 7U of rackspace. And those numbers will go even higher soon.

Thanks to Craig for accepting the idea of a guest blog post, and thanks to you, my readers, with whom I should have some new non-work-related stuff to share later.

[Edited as I’d had the wrong Craig’s last name in there.]

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[1] My top three posts of all time, so far, in terms of page views at least.

3. Cisco UCS for beginners – an end-user’s overview

2. Five fun and useful uses for an extra PCI slot

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