Cloupia

August 25, 2013

DATA CENTER

Learn about Cisco’s Data Center and Cloud Management Software at #VMworld

3 min read

This has been an exciting year for the Cisco Data Center and Cloud Management team – and we’ll be featuring several recent data center software innovations at VMworld this week. You won’t want to miss our new demos of Cisco UCS Director (formerly Cloupia), Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (Cisco IAC), and Cisco Prime Network […]

July 26, 2013

DATA CENTER

Would You Like to Reduce Costs by $264,000?

2 min read

Of course you would. In a recent Forrester report on the economic impact of FlexPod, that is exactly the cost savings estimated by utilizing centralized automation and orchestration. So I ask, what new projects or services could your IT organization deliver with cost savings of $264,000? To get a copy of the Forrester report, go […]

July 16, 2013

DATA CENTER

Serious Simplification Advancement

1 min read

Recently I spent time at Cisco Live Orlando where I caught up with Trey Layton, CTO, VCE. We had an opportunity to talk about automation and orchestration of Vblock with Cisco UCS Director (formerly Cloupia). Over recent months, we have been doing even more work for our customers, collectively between our companies, to do deeper […]

May 1, 2013

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged S2|Ep13: Software Defined Data Center + Cloud

1 min read

In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Bas Raayman from EMC and Caroline Orloff from ServiceMesh take on “what is the software defined data center and how is it like/different from the cloud”? Let’s watch and see what they conclude: Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, […]

March 27, 2013

DATA CENTER

Unlock Your Converged Infrastructure’s Potential

2 min read

Successful IT managers today and in the future need to quickly adapt to changing business strategies. But how does IT increase efficiency, support more applications and provide additional services with flat or decreasing IT budgets? In my previous blog, I discussed how Cisco, EMC, NetApp, and VCE introduced converged infrastructures to increase IT efficiency and […]

March 27, 2013

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged (S2|Ep7): __aaS (Everything as a Service)

1 min read

Another week of all the technology that’s fit to whiteboard, Engineers Unplugged features Chris Wahl (@chriswahl) and Steve Kaplan (@ROIDude) talking through cloud stack options, including Cisco Cloupia and Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (IAC) as well as VMware’s vCloud Director (vCD) and vCloud Automation Center (vCAC). It’s ___aaS in the new cloud world. Great […]

March 21, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco Management to Make Your Data Center More Efficient

3 min read

There is a lot of buzz in the market about Cisco Cloupia and how it is positioned relative to other Cisco solutions such as Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud.   The term cloud is often used interchangeably for automated infrastructure provisioning as well as for true clouds, as mentioned in my previous blog.  To better understand […]

March 4, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cloupia … More than Just Another Cisco Acquisition [VIDEO]

2 min read

I have been with Cisco for more than 20 years and have seen incredible growth and change over these two decades – including hundreds of acquisitions that resulted in varying degrees of success for our business. With this recent Cloupia acquisition being strategic to data center management, I thought this would be an opportune time […]

January 27, 2013

DATA CENTER

Learn about Unified Management in the Data Center and Cloud Booth at Cisco Live London 2013!

2 min read

If you haven’t heard about Unified Management, it refers to our portfolio of data center and cloud management software products. Cisco’s data center and cloud management software helps our customers to deliver IT services faster, more efficiently, and with lower total cost of ownership. This year we’ve made it even easier for you to learn […]