Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

July 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

Nexus Flexibility Eases Transitions

3 min read

Cisco has a broad base of data center customers with a diverse set of requirements and we meet their needs with Nexus - the most comprehensive switching portfolio in the...

July 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Power of Open Choice in Hypervisor Virtual Switching

3 min read

Customers gain great value from server virtualization in the form of virtual machines (VM) and more recently Linux Containers /Dockers in data centers, clouds and branches.  By some estimates, more than 60 % of the workloads are virtualized although less than 16% of the physical servers (IDC) are virtualized (running a hypervisor).  From a networking perspective, the hypervisor […]

June 26, 2014

DATA CENTER

Observations from London SDN Conference… “Wait, it’s coming…” … But Can You Afford T …

4 min read

Last week I spent some time at the “Software Defined Networking 2014” conference in London.  It’s a relatively small conference I would say however given the growing interest in SDN and rapid progress of the technology it’s always good to hear alternative viewpoints and experiences.  And I certainly found the previous conference here in December […]

June 2, 2014

DATA CENTER

IDC Quantifies Massive Business Value for Data Centers Using ACI

2 min read

At the recent CiscoLive event in San Francisco, Soni Jiandani, Senior Vice President of Cisco INSBU, expanded on the industry momentum for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).  She highlighted wide...

May 30, 2014

DATA CENTER

A New ESG White Paper: Accelerating Transformation with an Application-centric Approach

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At CiscoLive San Francisco held last week, Soni Jiandani, Senior Vice President of Cisco INSBU, highlighted our continued industry momentum for Application Centric Infrastructure.  She discussed customer deployments, new...

May 22, 2014

SECURITY

Control Without Compromise Through Superior Data Center Protection

3 min read

The news of high-profile targeted data center attacks has dominated security news recently. But data center attacks are even more prevalent than those headlines suggest. In fact, a survey conducted...

May 19, 2014

DATA CENTER

In the Driver’s Seat with Cisco Unified Data Center

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I’ve been in this industry for more than three decades, and so I’ve experienced every data center technology breakthrough and market transformation in that time.  We drove a market disruption...

May 18, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco’s Data Center and Cloud Management Software at Cisco Live San Francisco #CLUS

3 min read

We’re excited to showcase new innovations in our data center infrastructure automation and cloud management software at Cisco Live San Francisco this week!

May 16, 2014

DATA CENTER

Announcing Cisco UCS Director 5.0 – with Support for Application Centric Infrastructure

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It’s that time of year again. Next week in San Francisco, an estimated 22,000 customers and partners will convene for our annual Cisco Live user conference in the...