Top 10 reasons NOT to buy Xsigo VP780

10. No one you’ve heard of uses Xsigo. OK, so EMC, VMware, Accenture, Microsoft, Hitachi, Capgemini, and Technicolor all use Xsigo today. But you don’t want to take chances. Nobody does. So don’t take their word for it!

9. InfiniBand is a flash in the pan. Sure InfiniBand has been around for a decade, is available from all leading server vendors, has shipped over 5M ports (at speeds 10G or higher), is embedded in servers from two major vendors (with more coming!), and is growing at 35% per year. But Cisco doesn’t offer IB, so that’s reason enough to doubt it.

8. InfiniBand is just too darn fast. You’ve seen the signs: “Speed kills!” If man was meant to be moving data around at 40Gbps (soon to be 80Gbps!), Cisco would be doing it.

7. Isn’t that InfiniBand stuff just for HPC? InfiniBand is the dominant interconnect in high-performance computing. Why? Because it delivers 4X the bandwidth of 10G Ethernet, at 1/3 the latency, and at less cost. But why would you want high performance in your data center?

6. Who knows where InfiniBand even came from! Wasn’t IB dreamed up in some government lab or something? Well, no. InfiniBand was actually created by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Sun, and Compaq. But what do those guys know about systems?

5. With IB, you’d have a new interconnect in your data center. InfiniBand means you might have to learn something new. Of course FCoE is new, too. But Cisco tells you that’s OK. It’s good to have someone do your thinking for you.

4. Cost savings aren’t a priority. Sure Xsigo can save you 50% to 60% on your connectivity capital costs, but you don’t need the cost savings (and your switch vendor needs the money!).

3. Cisco promised you BIG discounts! Xsigo showed you how to eliminate 70% of your switch ports, and amazingly Cisco came back a day later with a 70% discount, “guaranteed for life.” Wow! That was a coincidence, but you’ll take the discount. Clearly Cisco has your best interests at heart.

 2. You like vendor lock-in! Your favorite vendors have been with you for years and they give you great service. As well they should. They know you, and know what they can get away with. They never mentioned that the expression “one throat to choke” can work both ways.

 And the TOP reason to not buy a VP780 I/O Director… 

1. The new VP560 I/O Director is much cuter! At just 2U height, the new VP560 is sized and priced for smaller deployments. So NOW you have a choice in open, standards-based, enterprise-proven virtual I/O: the VP560 or the VP780. Something you did not have before.

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