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What’s Cisco Doing for Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1?

March 15, 2013 at 8:15 am PST

We’re doing quite a bit actually…if you’re headed to the Microsoft Management Summit 2013 show in Las Vegas in a few weeks, stop by our booth, grab a t-shirt, and see us demo our UCS Manager and Nexus 1000V capabilities and more…

Cisco’s technology investments for Windows Server 2012 & System Center 2012 center primarily on the hardware, management and networking segments with our  UCS, UCS Manager, Cisco PowerTool, Nexus 1000V, and VM-FEX offerings. These investments help to drive simplification and automation for you – saving time and money.

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Learn more about how Cisco can provide an optimum datacenter environment for your Microsoft investments at www.cisco.com/go/microsoft

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Cisco Product Quick Reference Guide

March 15, 2013 at 5:32 am PST

The 2013 Cisco Product Quick Reference Guide is now shipping, and you can order it right now on Cisco.com.

The 2013 guide provides an overview of the many Cisco products, services, and solutions for every part of your business. It’s all you need in one portable guide:  An easy-to-use reference that includes chapters on routing, switching, wireless, collaboration, security, data center, video and broadband cable, optical networking, network management, and much more.  Time-saving features include specifications, part numbers, and ordering information.

You can purchase your hard copy now at cisco.com/go/guide, and a super-convenient mobile app is coming soon.

 

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Watch Now: Connected Passengers: Connected Mobile Experiences for Airports

Wouldn’t it be helpful if a transportation organization or an airport could use Wi-Fi signals and Wi-Fi location services to understand and plan for passenger flow?

The new Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences solution enables airports to not only augment the passenger experience and improve patron satisfaction, but also gain from benefits of greater insights on the passengers passing through their grounds.

Watch our 30 minute webcast (Available On Demand) to learn about the Wi-Fi technology behind the solution and strategies for how to create connected mobile experiences for passengers everywhere. You will learn:

  • How Wi-Fi technology can enable airports to anonymously track passenger flow
  • How location analytics can help airports understand passenger peak days and times
  • How to use customized airport technology developed by leading airport IT provider, SITA
  • How airports can make changes to plan and staff for incoming and outgoing travelers
  • What additional mobile location-based revenue and passenger engagement opportunities are available for airports and transportation organizations

Watch the webinar today! CLICK TO WATCH

St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne is Leading the Way in Health Innovation

This year at Cisco Live in Melbourne, we were lucky enough to visit St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne to get an overview of the hospital’s IT strategy and to see some of the technology in action.  Simon Richardson, the CIO for St Vincent’s Health Melbourne, and his team talked us through the hospital’s three main initiatives:

Providing Anywhere, Anytime Access for Physicians with Quick Connect

  • St. Vincent’s is providing “Physician Mobility” to its medical staff with Quick Connect. With a quick tap of a card, medical staff have immediate access to clinical applications from 600 desktops and Computers on Wheels (COWS) throughout the hospital. Based on the Cisco Unified Computing System, Quick Connect means that multiple staff can access records at the same time across the hospital’s multiple sites. Staff only need to log on once at the start of the day and can then simply tap their card for subsequent log-ins, wherever they may be. With staff logging on to computers 50 to 60 times a day, this is a huge time savings.

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Australia’s Country Fire Authority rolls out Cisco UCS

At Cisco Live in Melbourne last week we hosted a customer showcase panel (see photos here) for attending press and analysts. Alongside St Andrew’s hospital, an Adelaide-based private hospital, and Relationships Australia WA, a not-for-profit which has rolled out Cisco collaboration kit, the IT Operations Manager from Country Fire Authority (CFA), Gary Phillips, discussed the roll-out of a Cisco UCS based data centre platform.

In a country where threat to property and life from bushfires is a major concern every summer, it is important that the men and women tasked to protect us are equipped with the best and most advanced technology available to them. The CFA is the state of Victoria’s dedicated rural fire brigade.

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