For me, even though I am mostly a hardware geek, one of the coolest parts of the Cisco ONE launch at CiscoLive was the introduction of onePK.  We see onePK as an core enabling technology that will have some cool stuff down the road. So, one of the more common questions I get is about the relationship between onePK and other technologies related to network programmability such as OpenFlow (OF). Many folks mistakenly view this as an either/or choi…

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Tags: ASIC, asr9k, ciscolive, netconf, onePK, OpenFlow, SDN

CiscoLive London was an incredible trip and gosh it was only 30 days ago – our first little project out of that voyage is TechWiseTV85 our latest episode on Data Center technologies.  Data Center Optimization: The Next Stage is now available for your viewing pleasure in our ‘still has that new website smell’ environment we affectionately call the CVC (Cisco Virtual Connection). This show was another exercise in self-restraint as the DC team…

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Tags: catalyst, ciscolive, data center, nexus, OTV, Overlay Transport Virtualization, UCS, Unified Fabric, vdi vxi security vmware citrix view xendesktop netapp emc asa anyconnect vsg, Virtual Security Gateway, virtualization

Are you ready for the biggest Cisco event of the year? We’ve been working on demos, speaking sessions, and social events for the conference – and it’s finally here. The Intelligent Automation team are converging in force on San Diego for Cisco Live.  Our solutions will be covered in more than a dozen conference sessions and several theater presentations – featured in topics ranging from cloud management and big data to BYOD and VXI. And here are…

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Tags: Cisco Unified Management, ciscolive, ciscolivevirtual, cloud, intelligent automation, Intelligent Automation for Cloud, private cloud, starter edition, unified management

If you have attended Cisco Live, you know that Cisco technology powers many different features of the show.   Digital media signage, IP phones, VXI thin clients, hundreds of wireless APs, and of course the enterprise-grade Cisco network. At Cisco Live 2011 in Las Vegas, we activated more Cisco technology, this time from the TelePresence family.    Each Cisco Live event has up to 500 breakout sessions for attendees to learn and interact with Cisc…

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Tags: breakout, capture, Cisco, ciscolive, las vegas, network, streaming, TelePresence, video, virtual

Today, Cisco Live “World of Solutions ” (the show floor) opens at 4:30 pm PDT  in San Diego Convention Center.  One of the marquis demos has been shown at EMC World with a lot of interest. This blog is the second part of a two part blog dedicated to this Mobility and Business Continuance demo, created by Cisco, EMC and VCE.  In part 1 (read blog here) I invited EMC Colin Durocher (@OtherColin) to share with us his perspective on the…

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Tags: Business Continuance, Cisco, data center, DCI, disaster recovery, DR, EMC, mobility, OTV, Vblock, VCE, VPLEX