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December 10, 2015

DATA CENTER

Composable Infrastructure Part 6: Understanding Infrastructure Options

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The IT industry is in a significant period of transition, and the infrastructure landscape has changed a great deal. There are many options today, and the number of options will grow over the next two years. Having more options can more lead to complexity and potential limitation.  As you assess your options you need more […]

November 6, 2015

DATA CENTER

5 ways to make the most of SAP TechEd Barcelona

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Looking for the most exciting experience at SAP TechEd Barcelona? We have just the ticket. Here are our 5 best tips for meeting smart people, checking out innovative solutions, and making this the most productive conference of the year. 1: Find a Home Base With an adventure as sprawling as SAP TechEd Barcelona, everyone needs […]

November 2, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Mini Customer Success Stories

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When we launched UCS Mini, it pushed us into new territory with an exciting offering that bundles servers, storage and networking into a single solution — much like the traditional UCS — but in a smaller form factor and lowered the cost of entry to a UCS solution. It allows customers of any size (SMB, […]

September 23, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Platfora Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise Scale Analytics

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Analytics will continue to take center stage as the volume of data generated by embedded systems increases and vast pools of structured and unstructured data within and outside the enterprise are analyzed.  — Gartner Big Data will continue to be important, but it’s critical to first understand how businesses can quickly gather relevant insights from […]

September 3, 2015

DATA CENTER

A Strong Partnership: Cisco and Microsoft

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Cisco continues to develop their partnership with Microsoft becoming a critical component of the Microsoft Data Centers across the globe. 80% of the data centers around the globe already include Cisco networking switches and routers. More and more of these same Data Centers are also making the switch to Cisco UCS server platforms.  There are many […]

July 21, 2015

DATA CENTER

Part 2: How Many Servers Do You Have …. Comatose and Sitting Idle?!?!

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Last week I introduced this topic, the pervasive problem of “comatose” servers in data centers, based upon an interesting recent eWeek article entitled “30 Percent of Servers Worldwide Sit Idle”, which in turn was based upon the research report by Stanford University in conjunction with the Anthesis Group.  In my blog, I described the costs […]

June 26, 2015

DATA CENTER

My take on the integrated infrastructure buzz

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I recently created a playlist of my favorite 80’s, 90’s and current songs. Listening to the playlist in shuffle mode, I noticed the stark contrast and evolution of the recording...

June 11, 2015

DATA CENTER

Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 6: Highlights from Cisco Live — Top Insights from Platfora

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Our last but not least guest blog on “Why I Love Big Data Partner Series” is up! If you are on your way back home from Cisco Live, this would be a great read for your commute. Rob Rosen from Platfora will take us through how easy it is to uncover previously hidden threats with […]

June 5, 2015

DATA CENTER

Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 4: Distributed Big Data Cluster with Cisco UCS and MapR–Store Locally, Query Ev …

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Next in our series of Why I Love Big Data is Bruce from MapR.  Together, Cisco and MapR are working on a very cool solution for keeping data local, but accessing very quickly.  Also, come by the Connected Banking stand in the Cisco Live World of Solutions and DevNet area to see a demo of the […]