Cisco CVD’s are published…Giddy up! Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX…the overview Yesterday Cisco and EMC announced new milestones in our collaboration on IT Transformation with VCE Vblock and with EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructures.  The announcement includes two new Cisco Validated Designs (CVD) along with aligned channel partner incentives and customer support for VSPEX.  Through these advancements, and a decade long partnership, Cisco…

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Tags: EMC, nexus, UCS, vmworld, vspex

Increased innovation in virtualization, compute and networking technology is steadily increasing the growth and adoption of VDI. Many enterprises are extending VDI deployments to their remote offices and branches but many are also apprehensive of running VDI across the WAN link due to concerns that a single point of failure could disrupt the entire business at a remote location. Similarly, small and medium businesses (SMBs) are exploring VDI.  F…

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Tags: ISR G2, UCS-E, UCS-E Series, vdi, VMware, vmworld

This weekend marked the migration of people to and from San Francisco – VMworld2012 attendees were headed to SFO while Burners were heading out to Black Rock City. Knowing people in both camps, I thought it’d be fun to do a little comparison list.  Thirteen ways to look at Burning Man versus VMworld — acronyms, bacon, clothing and more. Burning Man VS VMWorld MOOP, RFBM Know Your Acronyms VDI/VXI, SDN, CSR1000v, UCS-E Rare…

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Tags: burning man, cloud, CSR 1000V, list, UCS-E, vmworld

At VMworld this week in Las Vegas, Cisco will be providing a preview of a virtual implementation of our ASA security appliance. A “preview” implies that we aren’t ready to announce ultimate pricing or availability, but we are demonstrating a strategic direction for the ASA product line. Earlier, I alluded to important new advances in our virtual security story upcoming at VMworld in the comments section of a recent blog post I wrote responding t…

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Tags: ASA, Nexus 1000v, virtual security, Virtual Security Gateway, vsg

Despite all the rumblings in the media about the future of the Cisco and VMware relationship, the two companies announced at VMworld last week that they will expand their strategic partnership to deliver next generation cloud infrastructures.  Hear directly from Rahul Tripathi, Director of Product Marketing at Cisco and Nitin Brahmankar, Senior Director of Strategic Alliances at VMware, about latest joint product offerings at VMworld 2012 in San…

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Tags: CSR1000v, UCSE, vblog, VMware, vmworld