September 9, 2020

DATA CENTER

Nexus 9300 Cloud Scale Switches: Ready for Unified LAN and SAN Architectures Migration

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What’s New? The evolution of Ethernet Local Area Networks (LAN) and Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Area Networks (SAN) convergence continues with the release of NX-OS 9.3.5 just this week. The release introduces Fibre Channel (FC) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) N-Port Virtualization (NPV) capability on the Nexus 93360YC-FX2, the latest 2RU member of the […]

September 3, 2020

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3 Reasons Why Cisco SAN Is the Best Choice

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Cisco is the leader in data center networking, providing choices in terms of storage protocols. Cisco is honored to be a one-stop-shop offering in-line analytics to meet customer storage networking needs, across these various NVMe protocols, in an architecture which respects and protects the investments customers have made in their network.  

September 2, 2020

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Cisco HyperFlex All NVMe with Intel® Optane™ SSDs provides simplicity and scale for SAP HANA and SAP Landscape

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Now certified by SAP for both HANA and Landscape applications, the HyperFlex 220c M5 All NVMe node ushers in a new era in hyperconverged infrastructure performance for the most latency-sensitive workloads. Using Intel® Xeon® processors,  Intel® Optane ™ SSDs and Intel® 3D NAND SSDs  for SAP HANA in HCI deployments provides excellent support for high-performance, high-capacity clusters that delivers the simplicity of hyperconvergence with the scale required for the SAP Landscape.

September 2, 2020

DATA CENTER

VDI Rapid Deploy – Enable Remote Work Fast!

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Cisco's priority is to simplify and streamline the adoption of the VDI technology your organization needs to face any challenge.

August 31, 2020

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Cisco MDS SAN Analytics: A GPS for Your SAN

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Living in Silicon Valley can be very exciting, but it has some challenges too. Traffic is certainly one of those challenges, and it’s a very common occurrence for most of us. Regardless of where you live in the world, you’ve likely experienced the inconvenience of traffic congestion. In order to avoid traffic, we usually turn […]

August 27, 2020

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Cisco NX-OS and Telegraf for Pervasive Network Visibility

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Today’s networks operate at a scale where visibility is even more important for efficient operations, and legacy monitoring solutions simply do not meet the requirements. Customers want an open, reliable, and scalable method to gather data, via a model based interface, that can be easily consumed and integrated into their broader monitoring infrastructure.

August 26, 2020

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New All-Flash Solutions from Cisco-Cohesity Partnership Optimize Data Management

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For nearly two years, the Cisco­–Cohesity partnership has made efficient and comprehensive data management easier to achieve. Now they’ve done it again with Cohesity adding new technology in the form of I/O Boost to Cohesity DataPlatform that supports Cisco UCS and Cisco HyperFlex all-flash NVME solutions.

August 25, 2020

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Enhancing Business Resiliency with Data Center Cloud Networking

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Connecting public and private cloud data centers has never been more important for improving business resiliency. To prepare for future upheavals, IT can proactively build secure DC and Cloud interconnects with Cisco Multi-Site and DCN Advantage subscriptions.

August 24, 2020

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Cisco NX-OS VXLAN Innovations Part 1: Inter-VNI Communication Using Downstream VNI

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Acquisition and mergers involve integration of both business and IT infrastructure and there is a need for fast and seamless integration. Similarly, in shared-services scenario, tenants in a network need transparent access to the extranet or shared services in more flexible fashion. Cisco VXLAN EVPN Downstream VNI provides greater flexibility and time savings when it comes to integration of disjoint networks and shared-service deployments.