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Jacob Rapp

No longer with Cisco.

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December 10, 2012

DATA CENTER

Benchmarking at Ultra-Low Latency

4 min read

Since we started shipping the Nexus 3548 with AlgoBoost to our customers in the beginning of November, there has been more and more interest in testing and verifying the switch’s latency in different traffic scenarios. What we have found so far is while network engineers might be well experienced in testing the throughput capabilities of a […]

December 5, 2012

DATA CENTER

Hadoop in the Enterprise Data Center

2 min read

A little over a month ago we had a chance to present as session in conjunction with Eric Sammer of Cloudera on Designing Hadoop for the Enterprise Data Center and findings at Strata + Hadoop World 2012 . Taking a look back, we started this initiative back in early 2011 as the demand for Hadoop was […]