Virtualization provides extraordinary benefits to organizations of all sizes. By moving multiple workloads into one physical server, companies have been able to optimize the usage of their data center infrastructure, minimize procurement and operational costs, and increase the overall efficiency of their operations. The growing number of organizations migrating mission-critical workloads to virtual environments has created a critical need to evo…

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In case you missed it, the Cisco Intelligent Automation team was at Oracle OpenWorld a couple weeks ago. This fall has been packed with events for our team, ranging from major partner shows like SAP TechEd and VMworld to local Cisco Tech Days – and we’re at VMworld in Copenhagen this week. That’s because our Intelligent Automation software solutions are relevant across the entire IT landscape. The more resources and applications that Cisco Intel…

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Tags: CIAC, Cisco Cloud Portal, Cloud Computing, data center, intelligent automation, Intelligent Automation for Cloud, job scheduling, UCS

It’s the week before VMworld Copenhagen, and there’s already a lot of buzz around the big VXI news that came out today . If you missed it, you can get access to the web event via the Cisco Collaboration Launch Experience page here.  I’ll get back to Copenhagen in a minute, but let’s take a moment to discuss why these announcements have such a significant impact on delivering what we call the next-generation virtual workspace… Last fall, we intr…

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Tags: citrix, collaboration, UCS, vdi, VMware, vxc, vxi

After last week in VMworld, I am convinced that we will see broader adoption of a unified fabric in the server access layer sooner than later. For starters, the technologies that were introduced earlier this year are emerging from the certification cycle which is significantly increases the comfort level for customers. For example, Emulex, Intel, and QLogic adaptors have been added to the VMware ESX Hardware Compatibility List and EMC is expec…

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What a hectic but fun week at VMworld. The show finally ended yesterday, they were turning out the lights and ripping up the carpet and we still had folks lined up for Nexus 1000V demos–gotta love that.So, beyond the buzz around VN-Link and the Nexus 1000V, we had significant traffic to a number of the demo pods:Considering the audience, its not surprising that there was a lot of interest in the joint development work we have been doing with VM…

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