Cisco Data Center

September 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

Your Guide to Cisco at Oracle Open World 2014

3 min read

In the world of IT, Oracle OpenWorld (OOW 2014) stands out. If you’re one of the 60K IT professionals attending OOW 2014 next week, we invite you to join us in booth 721 where we’ll be showcasing Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) and data center solutions that provide a superior platform for Oracle data bases […]

September 10, 2014

NETWORKING

ITD: Intelligent Traffic Director

1 min read

Data traffic has grown dramatically in the recent years, leading to increased deployment of network service appliances and servers in enterprise, data center, and cloud environments. To address the corresponding business needs, network switch and router architecture has evolved to support multi-terabit capacity. However, service appliance and server capacity remained limited to a few gigabits, far below switch capacity. […]

August 25, 2014

DATA CENTER

Business Continuity and Workload Mobility for Private Cloud (Cisco Validated Design-Part1)

4 min read

As a Cloud Architect, I’ve had the privilege to work with CTOs and CIOs across the globe to uncover the key factors driving Business Continuity and Workload Mobility across their cloud infrastructures. We’ve worked with enterprises, large and small, and service providers to answer their top five concerns in our new Business Continuity and Workload Mobility solution for […]

July 30, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Future of Networking, Available Today

3 min read

I am Soni Jiandani, SVP of Marketing for Cisco’s Insieme Business Unit. Together with a team of veteran leaders and engineers, we continue to disrupt markets to drive industry transformation....

July 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

SDN and Beyond: Cisco ACI Starts Shipping to Data Centers Worldwide on July 31!

5 min read

ACI goes beyond SDN to help customers deliver business outcomes and not just network device programmability.  That’s part of the reason over 175 customers signed up to trial the APIC...

July 16, 2014

DATA CENTER

Case Study: Atos Enables Self-Service IT with Cisco Prime Service Catalog

2 min read

I recently wrote a blog post about Steria, one of our Cisco Prime Service Catalog customers (you can also read their case study here). Today, I’m proud to introduce another case study on an IT service provider customer using Cisco Prime Service Catalog: Atos. Atos Societas Europaea (SE) is a global leader in IT services with 77,000 employees […]

June 18, 2014

DATA CENTER

Finally, a hybrid cloud that makes both users and IT happy!

2 min read

Two years back, I disparaged hybrid clouds in my blog: “Why Hybrid Clouds Look Like my Grandma’s Network”. Since then the pain and necessity of many clouds in business environment has become acute. I see a great similarity between Hybrid Clouds and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon that has become well-accepted in today’s organization. […]

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 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

How Data Virtualization Helps Data Scientists

2 min read

By now it is clear that big data analytics opens the door to unprecedented analytic opportunities for business innovation, customer retention and profit growth. However, a shortage of data scientists is creating a bottleneck as organizations move from early big data experiments into larger scale adoption. This constraint limits big data analytics and the positive […]