Almost a year after we first announced Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure — or what we call VXI — we are about to announce the next phase of major enhancements. During the course of this year we have seen the desktop virtualization market mature from tire kicking pilots to some pretty large deployments, including some over 10,000 seats. Cisco UCS has been a very popular platform for these deployments with hundreds of Citrix XenDesk…

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Two years ago, Cisco delivered on an innovative vision to unite compute, network, storage access and virtualization into one cohesive system: the Unified Computing System (UCS.)  Cisco recently reported its fourth quarter results for Fiscal Year 2011, and we are delighted by the growing market traction for this revolutionary new computing platform. We ended our fiscal year with a total of 7,400 customers, adding over 2000 new UCS customers in Q4…

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As summer rolls into fall, my kids are heading back to school.  It’s always an interesting transition but this year even more so with my daughter going away to college for the first time.   This has brought back a flood of memories from my own college education experiences.  I have always had a passion for education and have a strong belief in continous learning.  Today, so much is available on the web, through social media websites, and o…

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Tags: certifications, cloud, cybersecurity, government, security, Video Learning, virtualization

Every once in a while (here, here), I have the same conversation enough times with customers that I find it useful to bring it to the blog community. Last week at VMworld 2011, I had the opportunity to spend quite a bit of time speaking with customers and partners about Intelligent Automation and what it means for IT to deliver self-service capabilities to their customers (internal, contractors, etc.). During the conversations, a number of ques…

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Tags: CIAC, Cisco Cloud Portal, Cloud Computing, IaaS, intelligent automation, ITaaS, paas, Self-Service Portal

This week is a busy one for the Intelligent Automation cloud team, with both VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas and Cloud Connect in Santa Clara. Cloud Connect is (as you might expect) all about cloud.  At VMware Partner Exchange, you’ll learn about virtual desktops, virtual workspaces, and VXI with Cisco and VMware View.  But you can also learn about more about Cisco and VMware’s complementary cloud management solutions – to help our customer…

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Tags: Cisco Intelligent Automaton for Cloud, cloud, Cloud Management, events, intelligent automation, partner, unified management, VMware, VMware vCloud Director