Cisco UCS

June 18, 2014

DATA CENTER

Delivering Business Outcomes: When Did You Last Reduce Time To Market?

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Working in the Data Center and Cloud Professional Services team in Cisco on cloud and software defined networking, I am sometimes asked "What do...

June 16, 2014

DATA CENTER

How Cisco Helped Solutionary Boost Security and Improve their Hadoop Performance

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Every day, security threats continue to evolve, as cyber attackers continue to exploit gaps in basic security controls. In fact, the federal government alone has experienced a 680% increase in cyber security breaches in the past six years, and cybersecurity attacks against the US average 117 per day. Globally, the estimated annual cost of cybercrime […]

June 4, 2014

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged S5|Ep13: Big Data on Cisco UCS

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In this week’s episode, Robert Novak (@gallifreyan) and Steve McQuerry (@smcquerry) talk about Big Data on UCS. Real world use cases including UCS Manager, UCS Central, and more. This is Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, with a whiteboard. The rules are simple: Episodes will publish weekly (or as […]

It’s all about you: thanks for making Cisco’s Unified Computing System #1

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When we talk about Cisco UCS success, we could boast about how, in just five short years, Cisco has earned the #1 position for x86 blade server sales in the Americas. Or, brag on how we achieved 39% revenue growth in a period where the other top five vendors saw flat or declining numbers, according […]

June 4, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS is #1 in Integrated Infrastructure

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What is integrated infrastructure? Major analysts firms differ slightly on the taxonomy and makeup of the various integrated systems that comprise this market segment. However, they do agree that these systems include a combination of servers, networking, storage systems, and management.  Cisco realized that bringing together industry and market leading technologies would help accelerate IT […]

May 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

OpenStack Gains Momentum with Users at Recent Summit

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Cisco highlighted its support for OpenStack at the recent OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, which hosted 4500+ attendees and included many more...

May 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS® Claims SAP SD and SPECjbb 2013 World- Record Benchmarks

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Cisco UCS continues its tradition of performance leadership with the announcement of three world –record benchmark performance results: Cisco UCS B260 M4 blade servers achieved the best 2-processor 2-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark performance Cisco UCS C460 M4 Rack Server set new world-record SPECjbb®2013 MultiJVM 4-socket max-jOPS performance result. Cisco UCS  B260 M4 Blade […]

May 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Announcing Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler (TES) 6.2


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Introducing New Adapter for Cisco UCS Manager, Lightweight Java Client, Multi-domain AD/LDAP Authentication & Runtime User Support for TES Workgroups    Managing and automating mission-critical business process is key to the success of your enterprise. By managing the delivery of the right data to the right application at the right time you can ensure that everyone in your organization has the information […]