Cisco UCS

April 17, 2017

DATA CENTER

Is Facebook’s new storage platform performance hungry?

4 min read

I promised a follow up in my recent blog about Facebook’s new Bryce Canyon storage platform. While the title of this blog may sound like it questions the new platform’s capabilities. It like the previous blog aims to help you understand why it is perfectly suited for Facebook’s unique needs. The first blog was focused […]

April 7, 2017

CLOUD

Accelerate Container Adoption – Meet Cisco at DockerCon

2 min read

It’s DockerCon time again! We are excited to be the Gold Sponsor of the conference this year and looking forward to engaging with the community to accelerate the momentum in container adoption. If you are planning to attend this premier container community and industry conference, meet the Cisco team to learn how many organizations just like yours are deploying cloud-native applications and successfully modernizing traditional applications using Docker and Cisco products.

April 4, 2017

DATA CENTER

New Facebook storage platform looking more like Cisco UCS

3 min read

A few weeks ago, this year’s Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, California concluded. I personally love this event to see what all the big massive scale data center operators are doing. I have been following the program since it’s inception and unfortunately missed this year’s event but you can definitely be sure I was […]

April 4, 2017

DATA CENTER

Extending Ansible Automation to Cisco UCS and Nexus

3 min read

Administrators can use now use Ansible as their common tool for configuration management, deployment, and orchestration of Cisco UCS standalone rack servers and Cisco Nexus. Ansible can help you set up infrastructure quickly and easily.

March 30, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco and SAS Software. Trusted. Powerful. Comprehensive.

1 min read

‘…It takes a big village…’ so to speak when it comes to bringing enterprise-class big data & analytics solutions to the...

March 17, 2017

DATA CENTER

Set a flywheel of innovation in motion and magic happens ASAP

2 min read

We all heard the saying that time flies (when you are having fun). It certainly has been a busy start to 2017 in many aspects and when my colleague Emmeline Wong posted her blog about ‘2017 New Year’s Resolutions: Ideas for Data Center Pros’ a few months ago, it feels like yesterday.  With Cisco live […]

March 17, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack: The Game Changer for Cloud Service Providers

2 min read

At the 2017 Cisco Live Berlin conference, the Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack was revealed to provide organizations with a scalable hybrid cloud platform that can deliver Microsoft Azure services from their own data center.

March 16, 2017

DATA CENTER

HyperFlex 2.0: Start your engines & embrace the flash

2 min read

The hyper coverage market is exploding;  ESG’s latest research confirmed the popularity of HCI: 85% of respondents reported that they currently use or plan to use HCI solutions in the coming months. A broad range of capabilities has driven the organization in that direction: Improved service and support, scalability, agile VM provisioning, predictable costs, simplified […]

March 8, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Docker – Enabling Modern Apps with an Open Strategy

4 min read

Cisco and Docker are working with our ecosystem of strategic partners and the open source community to develop open and unique solutions. This alliance is another step in the strategy Cisco has been implementing for the past several years.