"All server players must have storage options - Cisco's C3160 catches up with what Dell C-class and HP SL-class have been doing for a while now. For Cisco to continue its growth of UCS, they should expand the server-based storage options with more flash and advanced software to build a Server SAN/hyperconverged solution. It is a balance to expand without stepping too much on the storage partnerships that drive a large majority of UCS sales; while Cisco isn't as good as IBM at "coopetition", they have a long history of still partnering with those that they compete with. Since Cisco isn't part of VMware's EVO:RAIL (while EMC, a storage vendor, will be offering this server-based solution) program and likely will not be part of EVO:RACK, they will need to have an answer for this growing category."
- Stuart Miniman