Cisco UCS

July 15, 2016

DATA CENTER

Commvault Data Protection for HyperConverged Environments

2 min read

You might remember a blog from our own Todd Brannon called “All about that BaaS” which outlined a jointly tested reference architecture for “Backup as a Service” with Commvault software. That engagement advanced Commvault to preferred solution partner status to deliver our joint customers a solution that is fully tested for compatibility with Cisco UCS servers and also […]

July 11, 2016

DATA CENTER

There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be 1st – Cisco, IBM Speed Up Big Data Performance

1 min read

Being first definitely feels good! Once again our Cisco UCS compute family showcases its leadership capabilities with two new TPCx-HS benchmarks. Cisco was the first vendor to publish TPCx-HS (The industry’s first Big Data benchmark standard for Hadoop) results in 2015 and we continue this leadership trend today with more top tier results. Our new […]

July 7, 2016

DATA CENTER

Elvis, HyperFlex, and Cisco Live 2016

2 min read

Cisco Live 2016 is finally here! Planning for Cisco Live this year reminds me of the many similarities between “The King” and HyperFlex. What does Cisco’s

July 6, 2016

NETWORKING

Ignite Your Enterprise Digital Journey in Three Steps

3 min read

It’s been a few exciting weeks recently at Cisco. On the heels of Cisco and Apple innovations for iOS 10, came the Tetration Analytics announcement to provide pervasive visibility across everything in your data center in real time. Now, I am ecstatic to continue that momentum with an update to our Digital Network Architecture (DNA) […]

June 29, 2016

DATA CENTER

New! Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera and Apache Spark

2 min read

Well, we do not stand still for long…at least our R&D teams don’t! The breadth of our solutions for Big Data and Analytics continues to grow, as we are pleased to introduce Cisco’s UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera and Apache Spark.  Working with one of our key Big Data ISV […]

June 17, 2016

CLOUD

Policy-based Cloud with Cisco ACI and OpenStack, Project Contiv and the Open Source Community

2 min read

Just a month ago, I was at OpenStack summit Austin presenting Cisco technologies to our valuable customers. To me it was quite obvious that OpenStack has hit mainstream, particularly after...

June 16, 2016

PARTNER

Partner Connections Put You at the Center of Digital Transformation

2 min read

According to IDC, 41% of executives say digital disruption increases risk of being put out of business. In this context, it is not surprising that every business, country and city is on a journey to become digital. But, no one company can deliver these digital solutions alone. That’s why Cisco takes an ecosystem approach and […]

June 6, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Claims Six World Record Benchmarks with the Intel Xeon Processor E7-8800 v4 Family

3 min read

On June 6th, 2016 Cisco announced support for the Intel Xeon processor E7-8800 v4 family on the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS). On the same day as the Intel announcement, Cisco captured six world records on industry benchmarks on Cisco UCS to highlight the way in which Cisco UCS can accelerate performance across the […]

May 17, 2016

DATA CENTER

Big Data and Analytics for Dummies

2 min read

A: Knock Knock B: Who’s there? A: Dummy B: Dummy who? A: Dummy you without a big data and analytics project (jk). But you are in luck, I happen to have the book for you – Big Data and Analytics for Dummies. If you are so hung up on the words, “for dummies,” here is […]