Here Comes Intel!

Intel today formally launched its Xeon 5500 processor – one of the largest launches in its history. You’ll recall that Cisco’s UC vision included to-be-released blade servers built on Intel’s Nehalem (Xeon 5500) processor. Another UC solution provider participated in today’s launch. You can view the full text of their release here: http://www.liquidcomputing.com/news/viewrelease/45. It seems that some of the “special sauce” claims that Cisco made in the introduction of its UC solution last week related to power management, virtualization and processing performance are standard features of the new chip set rather than something unique to Cisco.