VMworld 2011 will take place next week in Las Vegas and it will be an incredible opportunity to review the joint solutions between Cisco and VMware and how the network can scale to deliver secure clouds. The partnership with VMware makes virtualization and Cloud applications more powerful and help simplify Cloud operations. Cisco’s participation will include several speaking sessions and demonstrations focused on virtualization, Unified Co…

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Tags: Cisco VMworld 2011 Cloud Computing

VMware 2011 is going at full speed now with a full agenda of exhibits and special events. Paul Maritz’s keynote highlighted several important facts and announcements related to virtualization and Cloud Computing. Among them: 200,000 labs for attendees, all served from a public cloud The industry has reached a milestone where most applications are virtualized The infrastructure is built to run applications New versions of vCloud Director,…

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Tags: Cloud Computing vmworld vmware virtualization

…ions, out with HP and in with Xerox print solutions, our VMworld update, and much more that you don’t want to miss. Watch it all right here: Keep reading for a list of links and a written transcript of our newscast. 0:18 We know what you did this summer! We admit it: we were stalking Cisco partners to find out what you were up to. And we learned some interesting things! Our friends over at Force 3 recently snagged competitive eating ch…

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Tags: borderless, Cisco, comstor, customers, distribution, edison peres, Firefly, force3, forrester, HP, logicalis, partner update, partners, partnerupdate, ROI, Tech2000, vmworld, Westcon, xerox

So, who runs VMware on Cisco UCS. Well, these VMworld attendees were kind enough to share with me during the breakfast session. It was really great to get out and meet some of the people at the conference in a more casual setting. I had my trusty Flip Camera and thought is would be cool to get some people talking about Cisco UCS. I was actually surprised at the number of people who still have little or no knowledge about our server products. So…

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Tags: Cisco UCS, data center, FlexPod, Vblock, VMware, VMworld 2011, vsphere

Today Cisco made a new version of its Nexus 1000V virtual switch available for immediate download. The newly available Nexus 1000V 1.5.2 release can be downloaded for a 60 day free trial from here. As most of you know because you’ve been reading all my blog posts over the last year, the Nexus 1000V is the edge switch for virtual environments, bringing the network edge right up to the virtual machine, by residing in the hypervisors and connecting…

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Tags: ASA 1000V, Nexus 1000v, vmworld, vPath, vWAAS, VXLAN