| By Douglas Gourlay |
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| April 17, 2009 05:55 PM EDT |
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As mentioned on the IPTV broadcast yesterday, the preliminary benchmarking for out new blade servers for our Unified Computing System is pretty darn good—something along the lines of 164% faster than previous-gen Intel-based two-socket systems. I think this not only makes a clear case for the upgrading to Intel Xeon 5500 Series processor but, the same way you would not put a Ferrari engine in a Cavalier, you also want to upgrade to a system that is designed to take advantage of that kind of performance, not just retro-fitted to deal with it.
Here is a rundown of our preliminary results for some key industry benchmarks that cover a variety of workloads:
Douglas Gourlay is the Vice President of Marketing for Cisco’s Data Center Solutions Group.
Douglas Gourlay leads global marketing for Cisco’s Data Center technologies. As Vice President of Cisco’s Data Center Solutions Group, Gourlay defines and executes Cisco’s global marketing strategy for data center, virtualization, and cloud computing solutions. This includes the Nexus and Catalyst Data Center Switches, Application and Server Load-Balancing, Storage Networking, Blade Switching, and Wide-Area Application Services product families and their IT solutions.
Since 1998 Gourlay has led and contributed to numerous hardware, software, and systems architecture developments across Cisco. He has served as senior director of product management for the Nexus Family of Data Center switches, director of product management for the Catalyst® 6500 Series of LAN Switches, and led product management for Cisco’s Application Delivery product family. Gourlay has filed or holds more than 20 patents in networking technologies.
Prior to Cisco Gourlay was an industry consultant and served as a US Army Infantry Officer.
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