| Cisco buys Tidal for data center automation Cisco bulked up in data center automation with this week's $105 million buy of Tidal Software. Tidal makes application management and automation software for services-oriented architecture deployments. Cisco busts out beyond blade servers with Unified Computing System It's not a blade server – it's an architecture. Cisco stressed the holistic approach of its Unified Computing System during its widely watched launch Monday, claiming its innovations in tying together servers, storage, networking and virtualization make it unique in the industry. Observers trying to pit IT directly against HP and IBM data center blade servers were missing the point, Cisco officials suggested. What Cisco's UCS means to management vendors? Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) launch earlier this week impacted several vendors across the management software market. Podcast: How to optimize a data center through automation In a recent report, Forrester Research designated HP as the front-runner in data-center automation for the breadth of its automation solutions (in part gained through its acquisition of Opsware a year ago). HP automation expert Kalyan Ramanathan sits down with Beth Schultz, New Data Center editor, to share what the company has learned over the years helping its enterprise customers implement automation across storage, server, network and application infrastructures. (16:25) Can Cisco sell 'unified' vision to a tough server crowd? Cisco's biggest challenge in gaining market acceptance for its new Unified Computing System is to convince data center managers to buy blade servers from the router giant instead of from traditional, incumbent suppliers. BMC's role in Cisco's Unified Computing System launch BMC could consider itself lucky to be selected by Cisco to exclusively provide management technology for Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) launch, but the veteran software maker thinks more than luck is at work here. BMC says its long-term technology strategy makes BMC an ideal fit for Cisco's data center plans. Cisco to buy Tidal Software for $105 million Cisco this week said it intends to acquire Tidal Software, a privately-held maker of application management and automation software for service-oriented architectures and data centers. Slideshow: Are you an IT geezer? (and we mean that in a good way) Yeah, the new generation knows Facebook, Android and Twitter. But what about ISDN, SNA and X.25? HP automates management of VMware, other virtualization systems HP upgraded software designed to reduce the manual tasks associated with managing VMware, other virtual environments. Monitor devices, go green and save money Ron Barrett has found ServersCheck Monitoring Appliace, which would allow a network administrator to monitor up to 100 devices with a single appliance that is energy efficient, loaded with features, easy to manage and…fits in the palm of your hand. April giveaways galore
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
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