Don’t Miss the TechWiseTV Data Center Show This Week

Data Center host Steve Phillips will walk us through ‘The Five Golden Rules of Branch Office Consolidation’ with one of our favorite repeat guests Noam Syrkin. Check out the preview video here:

Posted by Robb Boyd on September 21, 2009

Show Notes - Unlocking the Potential of Virtualization

Looking for Show Notes?  Our latest Data Center Episode “Unlocking the Potential of Virtualization” featuring the debut of our Data Center Expert, Steve Phillips!  (Register to watch live on 7/30 and available to watch as a VoD right after!) The …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on July 29, 2009

Award Winning Corporate Video

Great news.  We just learned that two of our shows have won ‘Telly Awards’! TechWiseTV Episode 36 “Energy Efficiency in the Data Center” featuring one of our favorite repeat guests, Rob Aldrich, won in the informercial category. BizWiseTV Episode 20: …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on June 23, 2009

Get the Scoop on CiscoLive and CiscoLive Virtual

Who is going to CiscoLive!?  Hands down this is easily my favorite event of the year - although we look at it as an annual homecoming with all our friends there are obviously going to be many people who just …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on June 12, 2009

The Real Data Center Story on UCS

The Cisco Unified Computing System has a fascinating history that highlights the genius of multiple icons of networking from Vmware, to Sun and to multiple Cisco acquisitions dating all the way back through the Andiamo acquisition. David Lawler was a …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on April 17, 2009

Virtual Port Channels: Building Networks without Spanning Tree

Virtualization technologies currently require Layer 2 Ethernet connectivity to function properly. With the increased use of these types of technologies in data centers and now even across data center locations, organizations are shifting from a highly scalable Layer 3 network …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on April 17, 2009

It Really is Disruptive. That’s a Good Thing.

‘Dawn of the New Data Center’ launches this Thursday (April 9), as episode 43 for TechWiseTV and by all indications this looks to be our latest Data Center show.  The timing of this show remains right on the mark I …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on April 06, 2009

Great Discussion on Unified Computing in the Data Center

We did a live podcast on our TalkShoe channel today to discuss some of the misperceptions around what Cisco is doing new in the data center.  Are we getting into blades?  Are we just plumbers trying to build a whole …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on April 01, 2009

Today, Everything Changes

Gosh there has been a ton of hype and build up around this launch.  Finally today, Cisco releases the Unified Computing System and all the rumor mongering can cease. However, this perhaps gets even more fun now as people get …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on March 16, 2009

We felt the same pain as you.

As the success of the Internet took hold, the IT infrastructure teams in many enterprises struggled with managing the growth of data center resources in an organized fashion.  Older architecture paradigms and models certainly didn’t help, as architectures were generally …Read more.

Posted by Craig Huegen on March 02, 2009

Independence with clouds is the way to innovation

There was a time in the not so distant past when employees at major companies needed to schedule time to use IT resources.  The mainframes which could run specialized applications would run ‘jobs’ late in the evening and return results …Read more.

Posted by Matthew Stein on February 10, 2009

EnergyWise - Redefining Green

New Cisco technology called ‘EnergyWise’ is being announced today and we are very fortunate to be featuring it in our next episode ‘Network Energy Efficiency: The New Frontier’ on February 19.  I used to think that ‘going green’ was perhaps …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on January 27, 2009