Data Center Traffic

March 29, 2017

DATA CENTER

iCAM

1 min read

iCAM (Intelligent CAM) is Cisco’s breakthrough innovation that provides traffic analytics, per-feature hardware usage, recommendations and more, natively on the switch/router. So why is this important?   In today’s datacenter network, customers lack visibility into traffic patterns inside and outside the company. Whether it’s heavy internal application traffic between departments (e.g. HR, Finance), or it is […]

November 4, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco Global Cloud Index (2013 – 2018): Data Center and Cloud Traffic for the Next Five Years

2 min read

What do our GCI Forecast projections mean for you? Today, Cisco released the fourth annual update of its Global Cloud Index, or GCI (see media release). For most people who follow cloud-computing, it’s no real surprise to learn that global data center traffic will nearly triple over the next five years or that cloud traffic […]

April 26, 2013

NETWORKING

MegaTrends: The Need for Securing Data Center Traffic

4 min read

Data Centres are evolving rapidly, in response to the many industry IT Megatrends we have previously discussed. Services and applications are increasingly being delivered from very large data centres and, increasingly, from hybrid and public clouds too. Specifically, a good example of services being delivered from data centres is Hosted Desktops. I discussed in my […]