Cisco UCS
#CiscoChampion Radio S1|Ep5: UCS Invicta
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#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists, hosted by Cisco’s Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week we’re talking about UCS Invicta. Listen to the Podcast Featured Guests: Cisco Champions: Trevor Roberts (@vmtrooper), Matt Oswalt (@mierdin) Cisco Subject Matter Experts: Maxwell Riggsbee, Todd Brannon Highlights: How Invicta will allow UCS infrastructure to deliver resourcing Four […]
Management implications of large scale data centers.
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As data center workloads grow we hear about new large-scale mega data centers being built. According to a recent report Microsoft is planning on building a $9 Billion data center in Korea. This photo shows one of Microsoft’s large-scale data centers in Dublin. (courtesy datacenterdynamics) Cisco’s own Allen data center in Allen […]
Cisco Nexus 1000V: Simplifying and Scaling Virtual Networking in Microsoft Private Cloud Hyper-V Environments
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Windows Server 2012 R2 is central to Microsoft’s Cloud OS vision; the operating system platform delivers enhancements and new features in virtualization, management, storage, networking, and more. Our Cisco server infrastructure solutions (UCS) as well as our management (UCS Director, UCS Manager, Cisco Intercloud) and network capabilities are purpose built for supporting Microsoft’s virtualization and […]
New UCS Servers deliver innovative scaling options and record-breaking power
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This week we’re announcing new systems at the upper end of the UCS server product line: some heavy-duty iron for heavy-duty times. These are important new tools for our UCS customers: the digital age is accelerating, IT needs more horsepower to keep up, and there is a lot at stake. Cisco UCS Servers with Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 […]
Cisco @StrataConf : Best Practices for Hadoop In Production-Panel Discussion
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Hey data heads! O’Reilly Strata Conference kicks off tomorrow at the Santa Clara Convention Center. If you plan to go you better have tickets because the event is sold out. If you are attending the three days of sessions, keynotes, receptions and exhibits, please stop by the MapR booth for some face time with one […]
Show Me the Money: Cisco UCS Success Stories in Microsoft Oriented Datacenters
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Cisco continues to work closely on technologies and solutions around the UCS compute family so we can bring maximum value to you and your Microsoft oriented datacenters. The UCS family is well suited for Windows Server, Hyper-V and VMware based private clouds, and support for the key workloads of SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint. Recently […]
Cisco has entered the mission-critical application business
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As you have probably noticed, the Cisco and SAP partnership keeps growing – Here is some of the recent news [] Unisys, RealTech and others install SAP HANA on Cisco UCS ” Manufacturers are struggling with the provisioning of applications into the infrastructure” In this video, Joachim Weide, Director Transformation Services, Unisys talks about SAP HANA […]
Check out what’s new in the latest release of UCS Director!
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Cisco’s award winning converged infrastructure management software solution just got even better! In the latest release of Cisco UCS Director, we’ve added broader and deeper infrastructure support across the compute, network, storage and virtualization layers, as well making the product even more scalable. The latest release also comes with new software development kits (SDKs) for […]
IT – The rapid pace of changes we can expect in 2014
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We are almost at the end of January in 2014 and Cisco Live is underway in Europe. The IT landscape is changing rapidly, and we all need to adapt to it. In a previous blog I had listed some of the high priority issues for IT in 2014, and in this blog I will […]