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#EngineersUnplugged S3|Special Edition: #UnleashSimplicity
1 min read
In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Cisco’s Dominick Delfino (@domdelfino) and VCE’s Trey Layton (@treylayton) take on a number of announcements from VCE, and trending in the data center space. Roll the tape:
Networking Field Day 5: SDN and Unicorn Blood
5 min read
So, we wrapped up our day with the Networking Field Day crew last week with a free form discussion on where we go next with SDN. To be honest, the session did not go quite as I envisioned, but, in retrospect, I would not changed anything. As Ethan Banks (of PacketPushers fame) noted in Twitter, […]
Public Beta of Nexus 1000V virtual switch for Microsoft Hyper-V is Now Available
2 min read
If you missed our webcast on the upcoming Nexus 1000V release for Microsoft Hyper-V, you missed the announcement that we are now making available a beta version to the general public, as of March 6. (Note: Everyone asks, so, no, we haven’t announced the availability date for the GA version yet, but it’s coming soon). This […]
VDI “The Missing Questions” #6: What do you really gain from a 2vCPU virtual desktop?
4 min read
So you’ve decided you are going to run 2vCPU VMs in one, or all (GHAST!) of your VDI pools. Why did you decide this? Because your application is multi-threaded and you need better response times? Or simply because ((2 > 1) = TRUE) all the time? What DOES 2 vCPU VMs really get you in […]
#EngineersUnplugged S2|Ep3: #OpenStack Edition
1 min read
In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Colin McNamara (Nexus IS, @colinmcnamara) and Joe Onisick (Insieme, @jonisick) take opposing viewpoints for the OpenStack, cage match. Let’s watch: Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, with a whiteboard. The rules are simple: Episodes will publish weekly (or as […]
Network Field Day Comes to Cisco
1 min read
So, we have the Tech Field Day crew on the Cisco campus today. As you may now, Tech Field Day brings some of the industry’s leading bloggers together with folks like Cisco to cover the latest technology and trends. We are lucky to have the TFD team here all way and we have a number […]
Cisco Platform for NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop
1 min read
Cisco and NetApp have been partners for over a decade, and in January we announced the planned expansion of our partnership. We are always looking to work with our partners in new ways to offer customers greater choice, and Cisco and NetApp are working toward delivering a complete platform for enterprises in data-intensive industries with […]
Cloupia … More than Just Another Cisco Acquisition [VIDEO]
2 min read
I have been with Cisco for more than 20 years and have seen incredible growth and change over these two decades – including hundreds of acquisitions that resulted in varying degrees of success for our business. With this recent Cloupia acquisition being strategic to data center management, I thought this would be an opportune time […]
The Napkin Dialogues: Lossless iSCSI
17 min read
We bring out the napkins again to discuss lossless iSCSI and its design implications