Early in 2010 Cisco started construction on its greenfield data center in Allen, Texas. From inception, the goal was for this facility to embody our data center vision for consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, and new approaches to power and cooling, uniquely done all under one roof.
Tags: Cisco, Cisco IT, cisco on cisco, coc-data-center, data center, DC, high density computing, metro virtual pair, multitenancy, power and cooling, resiliency
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Ah, moving day. You’ve spent weeks packing your valuables into boxes and are now fervently hoping your movers treat them like priceless artifacts rather than testing their bounce factor. Sure, said movers are either complete strangers you’ve hired or friends you’ve enticed with beer and pizza, but what could possibly go wrong?
Tags: Cisco, coc-data-center, data center, datacenterdeconstructed, hardware, move planning, relocation, Servers
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One of the most daunting tasks a Data Center manager can face is a large scale hardware relocation. While today’s technology often allows you to avoid physical moves – you bring new hardware online at your destination, migrate applications there and then decommission the old gear – sometimes you still have to roll up your sleeves and do some heavy lifting.
Tags: Cisco, coc-data-center, data center, datacenterdeconstructed, hardware, move planning, relocation, Servers
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For this week’s Data Center Deconstructed we’re setting the Wayback machine to 1998, when Cisco opened a new engineering Data Center at its headquarters in San Jose, California.
Tags: Cisco, coc-data-center, data center, datacenterdeconstructed, design, legacy, WABAC, wayback machine
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Greetings from the Santa Clara Convention Center’s Mission City Ballroom. I’m kicking around the fourth annual Technology Convergence Conference today and – Wi-Fi willing – posting throughout the day.
Tags: coc-data-center, Consolidation, data center, datacenterdeconstructed, Mozilla, Project Mercury, Technology Convergence Conference, Teladata, temp coin
