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VCE Refreshes Vblock Portfolio with New Cisco UCS servers
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Five years ago, VCE was created with the goal of providing a simple, efficient solution to deploy and run IT infrastructure. VCE’s Vblock Systems have enabled customers to focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating, and managing IT infrastructure. It would be an understatement to say VCE has been successful. Last year, Vblock Systems, […]
Cisco UCSO – A solution whose name length is second only to the list of customer benefits
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Open source software is driving innovation in mobile devices and platforms, cloud services, big data and social technologies, as it continues to shape next generation data center architectures. Specifically, interest in OpenStack has been growing: IT organizations are looking for new ways to increase efficiency and have expressed preference for a more agile, modular and […]
The Next Wave of Innovation: Cisco UCS Fall Launch Sept 4th
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In 2009, the course of data center technology changed forever with the introduction of a groundbreaking architecture designed for IT innovation and business acceleration. With the Unified Computing System, Cisco answered the needs of customers embarking on the industry transition to data center virtualization and cloud. This innovation led Cisco to becoming #1 blade server […]
Cisco and Microsoft: Radically Improving I.T. Effectiveness Together
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Today at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2014) in Washington D.C. we entered into a new phase of our Microsoft relationship. Together Cisco and Microsoft announced a multi-year, worldwide sales and channel program focused on driving infrastructure solutions for Server Migration, Private Cloud, and SQL Server engagements. Based on key technologies such as UCS, Nexus, Hyper-V, and […]
UCS Integrated Infrastructure and New EMC VMAX3
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New applications and cloud computing are placing new demands on IT infrastructure. The infrastructure needs to be capable of quickly responding to dynamic business priorities and changing market conditions. Customers require an IT infrastructure that brings the scale, agility, and mission-critical availability the business demands, both today and tomorrow. Hence, the industry is witnessing a […]
Cisco UCS is #1 in Integrated Infrastructure
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What is integrated infrastructure? Major analysts firms differ slightly on the taxonomy and makeup of the various integrated systems that comprise this market segment. However, they do agree that these systems include a combination of servers, networking, storage systems, and management. Cisco realized that bringing together industry and market leading technologies would help accelerate IT […]
Cisco expands the SAP Competency Center in Walldorf in a big way
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The Cisco SAP Competency Center expanded its presence at the SAP Partner Port in Walldorf Germany on November 11, 2013. Watch the video of Padmasree Warrior, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cisco and Vishal Sikka, CTO and Executive Board Member for SAP as they welcome those that attended the opening of the Competency […]
Cisco and VCE: Infrastructure Will Always Matter
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I recently had the opportunity to meet with Trey Leyton, VP & CTO for VCE, to discuss VCE’s momentum and how they use Cisco technologies to deliver a truly converged infrastructure and an incredible customer experience. http://youtu.be/mfb4j74QaWI Last year, VCE achieved a $1 billion per year run rate with the VblockTM Systems portfolio. Customers have […]
Cisco Solutions for EMC VSPEX: Collaboration Helps Build Momentum
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Cisco and EMC continue to partner closely to speed our customers journey to the cloud via our “three paths to the cloud’ strategy. The strategy enables customers to implement custom-design infrastructures with best-of-breed products, validated reference architectures via Cisco solutions for EMC VSPEX, and pre-integrated converged infrastructure from VCE. In the last year, Cisco solutions […]
Cisco and NetApp Expand the FlexPod Portfolio
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Since its launch in 2010, FlexPod has been a tremendous success with more than 2,400 customers in 35 countries globally. This success has created new opportunities. Customers are requesting additional solutions based on the FlexPod platform to address an even broader spectrum of deployment types, workloads, and applications. Smaller and midsize IT departments need […]
UCS SmartPlays: Exceptional Offers on Cisco Servers
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Cisco UCS has been delivering significant value for IT departments worldwide for 4 years, and customers have made B-series the fastest-growing x86 blade servers in the industry. What is not as widely known is that Cisco offers a full portfolio of rack form factors, AND that the most popular models of both rack and blade […]
Desktop Virtualization On Your Terms – Flexibility and Choice with Architectures That Fit
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Desktop Virtualization On Your Terms – Flexibility and Choice with Architectures That Fit I recently had the opportunity to host several customers in a roundtable discussion, exploring their experiences in deploying desktop and application virtualization, the challenges encountered, and the benefits they’ve reaped. It was an engaging dialog with organizations spanning mid-market, enterprise to large […]
VCE: Converging on a better data center
Cisco’s Unified Data Center strategy is rooted in the idea that customers shouldn’t be put in the position of DIY technology integration. It’s just an unfair ask given everything that IT and LOB leaders contend with above and beyond the infrastructure. As technology has evolved, the component parts of the data center are decreasingly the […]