Cisco rattled the server market last month by announcing plans to offer a blade server as part of its Unified Computing System.

思科在上个月也加入到了服务器市场的竞争中。当时思科宣布，作为统一计算系统的一部分，他们计划推出刀片服务器。

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Virtualisation creates a lot of complexity, to which Cisco has found an answer, says Robert Lloyd, who heads the group that has developed what Cisco calls the “unified computing system”.

已开发出了思科称之为“统一计算系统”(Unified Computing System)的小组负责人Robert Lloyd表示，服务器虚拟化提出了许多复杂的难题，而思科已找到答案。

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But Cisco threw a grenade into that punchbowl last March, when it announced its Unified Computing System, a collection of data center products that included its own server.

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Last March, Cisco launched what it called a "Unified Computing" system of servers, routers and switches.

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