Back in February of this year, when I read an article in The Register, announcing that Raghu Nambiar, the then chief technology officer for UCS servers had joined AMD. I didn’t think too much of it, but when I also saw that AMD were, for the first time (in my memory), exhibiting at Cisco Live, My right eyebrow rose in a particular “Roger Moore esque” manner, and I sensed something may well be afoot.

Some of you may well have noticed that even since 2009 there has always been an AMD CPU server qualification policy in Cisco UCS Manager , and several years ago I did bring this up with Cisco, as to why in an exclusively Intel based product would need such a policy, to which, if memory serves, the answer at the time was “never say never”

Well today that “prophecy”  was fulfilled with the announcement of the…