Cisco UCS

October 28, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Balancing Innovation and Evolution: Cutting Through the Noise

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Thinking back to how much the data center has transformed in the past ten, five, or even two years is enough to make your head spin. Keeping pace with these...

October 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

Hard Choices !

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Sorry .. I did not mean to steal the title of Hillary Clinton’s book. It so happened that we had to deal with “hard choices” of our own,  when we had to decide on the management approach to our new M-Series platform. In the first blog of the UCS M-Series Modular Servers journey series, Arnab […]

October 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Claims 100th World-Record Benchmark Result with SPECjbb®2013 MultiJVM Benchmark

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One hundred is one of the most ubiquitous numbers in life. We see it on money, best-of lists, memorials, compilations, scoring systems, and many other benchmarks. Cisco Unified Computing System™ reached this significant milestone as Cisco UCS claimed its 100th world-record performance result with the fastest 2-socket server on the SPECjbb®2013 MultiJVM benchmark for the […]

October 17, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco at Microsoft TechEd Europe 2014

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Ready to savor tapas, Gaudi and the most vibrant community of IT professionals in the industry? You must be headed to Barcelona for Microsoft TechEd Europe, 28-31, October. Cisco will be there as well.  We’ll be showcasing integrated solutions from Cisco and Microsoft for Windows Server 2003 migrations, cloud and SQL Server. Cisco and Microsoft […]

October 16, 2014

SECURITY

New Security White Paper: Unified Computing System (UCS) Hardening Guide

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Check out the new Cisco UCS Hardening Guide white paper which is now released  and available on the Cisco Security Portal. The paper outlines and highlights security best practices for Cisco UCS. This paper provides information to help users secure Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) platform and provides guidance on how to harden Cisco […]

October 14, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Video Library from Oracle OpenWorld 2014

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It’s been a couple of weeks since the Cisco data center and partner teams wrapped up a terrific Oracle OpenWorld 2014.  We had a great week of conversations with customers and partners on how Cisco UCS provides a superior platform for Oracle Data Base and applications. We also announced three record-setting benchmarks for Oracle E-Business […]

October 6, 2014

DATA CENTER

VCE Refreshes Vblock Portfolio with New Cisco UCS servers

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Five years ago, VCE was created with the goal of providing a simple, efficient solution to deploy and run IT infrastructure. VCE’s Vblock Systems have enabled customers to focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating, and managing IT infrastructure. It would be an understatement to say VCE has been successful.  Last year, Vblock Systems, […]

October 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

UCS M-Series System Link Technology: The converged infrastructure story.

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It almost feels like this blog entry should start with: Once upon a time….   Because it captures a journey of a young emerging technology and the powerful infrastructure tool it has become. The Cisco UCS journey starts with the tale of Unified Fabric and the Converged Network Adapter (CNA). Most people think of Unified Fabric […]

September 30, 2014

DATA CENTER

NetApp and Cisco Deliver Extreme Performance For Oracle Database

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Guest post by Aaron Newcomb, Solutions Marketing Manager, NetApp No one wants the 2:00 am distressed phone call disturbing a good night’s sleep. For IT Managers and Database Administrators that 2:00 am call is typically bad news regarding the systems they support. Users in another region are not able to access an application. Customers are […]