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April 5, 2013

DATA CENTER

When Oracle User Groups “collaborate”, Great Things Happen

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While some may be wary of the number 13, for 3 Oracle user groups (IOUG, OAUG, Quest Intl.) 13 is a measure of success for their joint (collaborative?) conference “Collaborate”, next week in Denver. Now in its 13th year, the 6000 attendee strong Collaborate is the world’s largest independent Oracle user group gathering.  And Cisco, […]

April 4, 2013

DATA CENTER

Executive Roundtable: Cisco, Intel, and NetApp, with special guest Microsoft, on the Private Cloud

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We’ve been doing quite a bit of work recently with our strategic partners Intel, NetApp, and Microsoft on Microsoft oriented private cloud solutions. Specifically we’ve been focusing on new innovation going into our joint FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud reference architecture. A great way to learn about these joint development activities is to join in on an […]

April 3, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS – Quintessential Fabric-based computing – Part 2

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In Part 1 of this blog series, I introduced Gartner’s definition of Fabric based infrastructure (FBI).  I explained the benefit of data center fabrics with the promise of continuing in a follow on blog.  Some readers rightly pointed out to me that I had not yet touched on the automation benefits. This video featuring Gartner […]

April 3, 2013

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged S2|Ep8: Secure Hybrid Cloud + Whiteboarding Game

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This week features another exciting double edition for Engineers Unplugged, complete with a whiteboarding game to help you hone your craft. But first, business. Listen in as Brian Gracely (VirtuStream, @bgracely) and Jase McCarty (EMC, @jasemccarty) discuss the benefits of secure hybrid cloud:

April 2, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Delivers the best 2-socket Virtualized SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark result in a Linux environment

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On March 19th, 2013 Cisco announced the best 2-socket virtualized SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark result in a Linux environment with the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) delivering high scalability and low latency in virtualized SAP Business Suite deployments. Cisco’s benchmark result for the Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server show support for […]

April 1, 2013

DATA CENTER

Learn How You Can Benefit from Cloud Computing Part 2 ̶ “Adopting the Cloud”

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In my March 18th post, I wrote about a series of Cisco educational webinars on the challenges and opportunities of cloud computing. Two of the webinars take place soon – April 9 and April 17 – so you might want to “check them out.” In addition to those webinars, Cisco is joining leading analyst firm […]

March 29, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco Domain Ten: Domain 8: Applications

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“Applications?”  I hear you say.  “Why are Cisco talking about application?  They’re a networking company!?”  If this is what you are thinking, I’m glad you are reading this blog.  As we’ve broadened to be an IT company, we in Cisco Services have been quietly building our application migration capability for the past 2 years.  And with cloud, […]

March 28, 2013

DATA CENTER

Accelerate Your Cloud Strategy : Cisco at Cloud Connect 2013

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Whether you are amongst those building their own private cloud or amongst  those leveraging the solutions of cloud providers, you want to attend Cloud Connect Santa Clara next week. Cisco has been very active over the past years to accelerate the emergence of the cloud computing model. Padmasree Warrior, Cisco CTO and Lew Tucker Cisco […]

March 28, 2013

DATA CENTER

VDI “The Missing Questions” #9: How many storage IOPs?

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Hello fellow VDIers…if you are reading this blog first in the series and wondering why we are on Question 9, then check out the following posts to see the entire series: Introduction – VDI – The Questions you didn’t ask (but really should) VDI “The Missing Questions” #1: Core Count vs. Core Speed VDI “The […]