Hope you all have been keeping well! “Data Centers of the Future”, “DC 3.0″, and similar terms have been getting a lot of play lately. They remind me of the work Cisco has been doing to compare the benefits of building such data centers with the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and Unified Fabric versus “traditional” data centers. For example, when considering a 10,000 square foot data center, we saw savin…

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This concludes our series of Daily Blogger Techminute for WMworld 2009 Follow our bloggers on Twitter and read their blogs Omar Sultan (Cisco) twitter.com/omarsultan http://blogs.cisco.com/ciscodc James Urquhart (Cisco) twitter.com/jamesurquhart http://news.cnet.com/the-wisdom-of-clouds/ Chris Hoff (Cisco) twitter.com/beaker http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/ Chad Sakac (…

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This week Cisco is announcing the ASA 1000V cloud firewall, a product that we previewed at VMworld last month and in an earlier blog post. This video provides a very high level introduction to our latest virtual security product. We’re excited about the ASA 1000V because it brings virtually all the features of our physical ASA appliances to virtual environments, providing greater consistency across the physical, virtual and cloud domain…

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Tags: ASA 1000V, firewall, Nexus 1000v, security, Virtual Security Gateway, vsg

Captain’s log, October 27, 2011: The USS Cisco took off for the Gestalt IT Networking Tech Field Day 2 with Captain Omar Sultan (see picture below, courtesy of techfieldday.com), Data Center Solutions Sr. Marketing Manager, at the helm. Tech Field Day networking industry experts gathered on the bridge, cleverly disguised as the Cisco Cloud Innovation Center (CICC) Lab, for an informal, no-holds-barred conversation on recent Nexus portfolio…

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Tags: automated provisioning, brighttalk, CIAC, cicc, Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud, cloud, han yang, networking tech field day, Nexus 1000v, Nexus 3000, Nexus 5000, Nexus 7000, omar sultan, orchestration, tech field day, Tina Feng, virtual machine networking, virtual services, virtualization insights, vm networking, VXLAN

Juniper Reality In this show, we cover the new ASA 1000V and how this security family represents the oldest yet most future ready security platform. What is the relevance of a Firewall in today’s modern world where security must encompass every part of increasingly distributed operations? What is really meant by a Cloud Ready Firewall?  What the heck is this new ‘virtual ASA’…didn’t we already have the Virtual Security Gateway?  Perhaps its all…

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Tags: ASA, ASA 1000V, Cisco, cloud, security, TechWiseTV, virtualization, vPath, vsg