I am still pleasantly surprised that the title of this show “Intelligent Switches Come out of the Closet” has not been yanked by our censors. The show is a good one of course, and double entendre aside, this notion of moving out of the switching closet and putting switch resources right at a critical point of entry is exactly what we are talking about. This is another of our three shows taped at CiscoLive in London, the Borderless team relea…

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Tags: 2960, 3560, Borderless Networks, Cisco Catalyst 6500, ciscolive, compact switches, retail

Hi everyone.   I’m starting to pack my bags for Vegas and looking forward to being the host for Cisco Live 2011 – my third year as host. I’ll be joining about 14,000 (!) of you at The Mandalay Bay hotel, and about 40,000 of you will be joining us virtually – from either ustream or the Cisco Live virtual landing page (where you can also access the ustream broadcast). This is a record breaker for total attendance (about a 15% increase over last ye…

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Tags: captain kirk, cisco live, collaboration, las vegas

Well, we are all safely back from CiscoLive. Speaking for the blogger crew, we had a lot of fun and had the chance to chat with a large number of customers across the length of the event. To a person, the folks I talked to were positive about how our data center story has unfolded over the last year, but at the same time, many had good questions about what things like FCoE, UCS and clouds (in their seeming infinite variety) really mean for the…

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It is Cisco Live 2012, and the San Diego Convention Center is abuzz with excitement and activity, as customers throng to the World of Solutions, on this Monday afternoon, June 11. Having recently joined the Cisco VXI solutions marketing team, I am eager to check out all the VXI demos live on the show floor. Let’s pick up action with the  Desktop Virtualization demo in the Cisco Unified Data Center (UDC) booth. This Desktop Virtualization dem…

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Tags: citrix, netapp, vdi, vxi

Ever think “boy, I really would like to know what happened in that keynote / session / meeting / webinar / executive video / training but I really do not have time to sit through the whole thing”? Yeah, I do too. Technology to the rescue! Cisco has a tool called Pulse that runs analytics on video and automatically pulls speaker and keyword information. How cool is that? Let’s just say very cool. Padmasree's CiscoLive London keyn…

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