Data center capacity has historically been a technology concern focused on compute, storage, and power resources. But it now has a fourth vector: Humans. IT specialists are in extremely high demand and disconcertingly short supply. They’re responsible
Cisco MDS 9000 series (IBM C-series SAN switches) and IBM mainframe FICON are celebrating 16 years togehter. With the Cisco NX OS 8.4(2b) release, the Cisco MDS 9000 series is once again at the center of customers' preferences when it comes to both
Back in 1984 the desire to connect across campus gave birth to the first multi-protocol router, and to Cisco. Much has changed since then, but one thing remains constant. No, I’m not talking about my love of the New York Yankees – I’m talking about
Cisco has always focused on providing customers with the best innovation, under an umbrella of choice and openness, in our next-generation virtual switching portfolio.
iCAM (Intelligent CAM) is Cisco’s breakthrough innovation that provides traffic analytics, per-feature hardware usage, recommendations and more, natively on the switch/router. So why is this important? In today’s datacenter network, customers lack
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.
Cisco continues to lead the industry in performance for Big Data systems, this time smashing the previous TPCx-HS benchmark world record by over 14% while simultaneously reducing cost by 5%. The TPC developed the TPCx-HS benchmark several years ago as
Change is everywhere and it is happening faster than ever. Data centers have become user-centric rather than IT-centric. Developers, on behalf of the business, demand self-service access to technology. And when they don’t get it, they claim it
Co-Authors: Frank Palumbo, SVP, Global Data Center & Enterprise Networking Sales and Kristine A. Snow, SVP, Cisco Capital We’ve previously written about how companies can overcome financial limitations and develop organizational agility with
