#EngineersUnplugged S5|Ep4: Big Data

In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Floris Grandvarlet (Cisco) and Richard Pilling (Intel) take on Big Data across the proverbial pond, at Cisco Live Milan. Where are we now, how are we going to approach the ever increasing amount of data (an ocean of it) to fish for information? This is a great overview […]

#EngineersUnplugged S5|Ep3: NXOS and Puppet

In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Tim Swanson (@tiswanso) and Nigel Kersten (@nigelkersten) discuss NXOS and Puppet, and the Cisco/Puppet plug-ins created for configuring network switches. What does this mean? Watch and see. Hint: it ends in unicorns. **The next Engineers Unplugged shoot is at EMC World, Las Vegas, May 2014! Contact me now […]

#EngineersUnplugged S3|Ep12: Software Defined Storage

In this week’s Engineers Unplugged,  we are back to eavesdropping. This episode features Christopher Leigh-Currill (@ospero_chrisl) and Jonas Rosland (@virtualswede) talking Software Defined Storage at EMC World, including ViPR. Let’s listen in: Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, with a whiteboard. The rules are simple: Episodes […]

Data Protection Solutions for the Vblock System

Today , I met Chandra Jacobs, Product Marketing  at EMC to talk about her experience at Cisco Live 2013 in Florida  and the solutions she presented. Chandra – Can you introduce yourself ? I love creative and challenging projects in the emerging technology product space. I have a background in technology, innovation, and product development, […]

Ease of Troubleshooting : Meet Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director

End of April, Cisco introduced  the next generation Storage Network innovations with the new MDS 9710 Multilayer Director and new MDS 9250i Multiservice Switch (see Berna Devrim’s  blog ) . These solutions have been presented to the Storage Tech Field Day  (see blogs and videos below) , as well on the Cisco booth at different events  (ie EMC World) generating a […]

IDC White Paper: Converged Systems Support Datacenter Transformation

A new white paper from IDC discusses how converged infrastructure solutions from Cisco and EMC, through VCE, can enable IT organizations to deploy a highly virtualized, highly efficient computing infrastructure. For those new to the converged systems topic, VCE was formed by Cisco and EMC to build converged infrastructure systems that dramatically reduce the complexity […]

#EngineersUnplugged S2|Ep12: The Evolution of Virtualization

In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, join Gabriel Chapman (@Bacon_Is_King) and Dave Henry (@davemhenry) as they chart the evolution of virtualization, from mainframes up to software defined data centers. This is a technical deep-dive you don’t want to miss: One thing that hasn’t evolved as much, the unicorn, shown here, fully virtualized: Welcome to […]