At VMworld 2010, we were excited to receive the “Best of VMworld 2010″ award in the Hardware for Virtualization category with our Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) technology. Running on the Cisco Nexus 7000 series, OTV allows Service Providers to bridge LANs between separate data centers in an intelligent, secure, and dynamic fashion. In essence, it brings layer 2 capabilities to layer 3 over a unified IP network and was design…

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Tags: CA, cloud, newScale, nexus, OTV, Overlay Transport Virtualization, UCS, unified computing system, unified service delivery, usd, virtualization, vmworld

I invited over the past two years several technology partners and resellers to share their opinions on this blog. Today I expand this invitation to some of our service providers . Of course, it felt very natural to start with one of our best partner in this field. David Shacochis is Vice President of Cloud Platforms at Savvis. In this role he is responsible for revenue growth, strategic alignment and customer adoptionwithin this emerging produc…

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Tags: Cisco Data Center, cloud, savvis

As enterprises continue to address their business needs for BYOD, security and compliance they’ve increasingly adopted virtual desktops. However, most enterprises continue to struggle to move beyond a pilot phase when addressing how to scale desktops across their wide-area networks to branch offices without potentially compromising application performance and, ultimately, productivity. It turns out that small & medium businesses (SMB) are ju…

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Tags: smb tips, UCS-E, vmworld

This is a review post for the Big Compute and Big Data, NoSQL session. Hmm, when signing up for the session I was concerned about being a little lost on the topic, but the panel was very good. It consisted of members from SAS, Clodera, Data Tatics, VMwware and EMC. So, right of the bat, we are talking about Big Compute, Big Data. Not sure how these phrases get started but, someone coined the phrase and now it seems to be used a lot for large an…

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Tags: Big Compute, Big Data, Nexus 2000, Nexus 3000, Nexus 4000, Nexus 5000

Cisco and VMware provide innovative and integrated solutions specifically designed for virtualization. Our combined offerings include breakthrough products, certified applications, and new solutions, enabling businesses to unleash the full power of virtualization everywhere, from the data center and mission-critical applications to the desktop. Together we provide you with superior performance, responsiveness, agility, security, manageability,…

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