Since our initial announcement of the Cisco UCS, there has been a great deal of interest, skepticism, and speculation about this new platform. Though the system won’t start shipping to customers until the end of June, Cisco IT has had …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 02, 2009 at 06:08PM
One of the goals of Data Center 3.0 is to shift the approach for building data center infrastructure and deploy it in a more targeted and granular fashion to make sure budget spend is used more efficiently. One of the …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on May 27, 2009 at 10:37PM
John Manville, VP for IT for the Network and Data Center Services organization, will be on IPTV tomorrow discussing the production implementation of the Cisco Unified Computing System in our data centers. The event is tomorrow (May 27) at 11am …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on May 26, 2009 at 10:34AM
As I have often note in my customer briefings, getting a handle on power and cooling issues in the data center is dependent on the proverbial three-legged stool: energy-efficient facilities, energy-efficient products, and getting educated on designing/implementing/operating energy efficient data …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on May 22, 2009 at 08:17AM
Our ConC TechMinute celebrity, Sidney Morgan discusses the deployment of Cisco UCS in our production environment and how it has improved power efficiency in our Richardson data center. You can also listen to Sidney discuss how we are integrating the …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on May 18, 2009 at 11:23PM
Just a quick heads-up—we have quite a few interesting things going on at EMCworld this week, including a session by our Cisco-on-Cisco TechMinute celebrity Sidney Morgan. Listen to Sidney give a brief update on our sessions. Sidney’s session is “Case …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on May 18, 2009 at 05:17PM
The Cisco on Cisco team recently published its first case study created entirely by leveraging the three pillars of a Web 2.0 environment: people, communities, and information (P-C-I). We met with the Worldwide Sales Process and Systems team (the people) …Read more.
Posted by Leanne Schrotzberger on May 06, 2009 at 03:39PM
With this latest installment, Doug Alger discusses how the Cisco Unified Computing System will impact strategies for cabling, power and cooling. The conversation then moves onto a broader discussion of addressing power and cooling requirements in a age of dynamic …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 31, 2009 at 01:49PM
I thought I would switch gears a bit and touch on one of the other pillars of the data center. Our storage environment continues to be a great story to tell and continues to be a source of interest with …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 26, 2009 at 11:11PM
In this installment, our fearless data center architect Doug Alger discusses how Cisco IT handles equipment that needs side-to-side airflow. As to why we need side-to-side airflow in the first place, check out this recent interview with Doug Gourlay. On …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 20, 2009 at 09:43AM
Although we just announces the Cisco Unified Computing System yesterday, we already have it in production here at Cisco. We have a number of web, database and legal apps running on it, most of which you cannot access, except for …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 17, 2009 at 02:55PM
Here are some interesting thoughts from Doug Alger on how some companies are looking to deal with their excess data center heat. This is a good example of how thinking is evolving on the topic. While we expect power and …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 08, 2009 at 10:45PM
Here is a quick update from Sidney on the progress with the Nexus and unified fabric deployment in Cisco’s production data centers. Beyond Sidney’s update, you can get more details on the project here.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 08, 2009 at 09:35PM
I has a chance to sit down with Sidney and Doug before the holidays to catch up. So, in this installment of the DC TechMinute, Doug talks about the various server cabling options we are looking at in our data …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on January 09, 2009 at 12:36PM
I recently has the opportunity to sit down with Doug and chat about the process Cisco goes through to forecast and size capacity of our data centers.
Posted by Omar Sultan on November 17, 2008 at 09:29AM
We recently turned up FCoE (on the Nexus 5000) in one of our production data centers. Here is an interview with Sidney discussing the results and what we learned during the process.
Posted by Omar Sultan on November 17, 2008 at 09:25AM
One of our goals for our blog is to bring in some different perspectives to you. As you might have noticed, our first foray is with a couple of new folks from Cisco IT: Doug Alger and Sidney Morgan. Both …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on October 29, 2008 at 10:51PM
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