Cisco UCS - FAIL

ok, so I tried to 'sell' a UCS server to my team instead of HP. They weren't buying it. There were several concerns at this stage that they had.

1. We haven't time to trial them with VMware
2. We've used HP for years and trust them for servers
3. We want to try and match other servers we have
4. We had problems with rail kits for previous Cisco 'Servers' (IBM oEM)

So, my way to counter this 'resistance' is really simple. We take a trial box from Cisco and test it at the same time as we're deploying HP. If the guys like it, then we buy UCS as well as an HP server. No problem, we get more NFR $ in July so the cost isn't an issue.

I really think that if Cisco can ovecome objections like these above, and the price is right (not just selling to die in sand Cisco bods) then they will have a chance to break the server market dominated by HP, IBM and Dell.