Virtualizing Cisco’s data center architecture requires not only an overhaul of the network infrastructure but a transformation within the IT organization to support new business models. Cisco’s virtualization strategy focuses on three main criteria: capacity, business continuance, and business …Read more.
Posted by Bob Scarbrough on November 18, 2009 at 09:38PM
Cisco on Cisco has launched an interactive data center user experience that is unlike any other. With over thirty embedded video modules, visitors get an inside look at the Richardson Data Center from the perspective of Cisco IT leaders and …Read more.
Posted by Brad Wrage on November 11, 2009 at 07:52PM
What would an announcement from Cisco be without VIDEO? To tell you a bit more about our Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition that we announced today with EMC and VMware, we went to Mark Fulghum, Cisco Vice President of Data …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on November 03, 2009 at 07:00PM
You probably didn’t miss the today announcement of the coalition between Cisco, EMC and VMware designed to address the challenges of pervasive virtualization and private cloud computing .We met Mark Fulgham , Vice-President Data Center Solutions to get his point …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on November 03, 2009 at 05:11PM
To say that it has been busy at Cisco these past several weeks would be an understatement. We’ve announced some acquisitions recently, we announce Q1’10 earnings tomorrow, and, in the “WAIT, there’s more!!” category, today, we announce our Virtual Computing …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on November 03, 2009 at 09:00AM
Yes indeed, we had an awesome panel that I moderated at the MPLS Conference 2009 held in Washington D.C. on October 26 2009. The panel entitled, “Emerging Technologies and Business Architectural Impact: Cloud Computing, P2P applications, Social Networking and Infrastructure …Read more.
Posted by Monique Morrow on October 30, 2009 at 09:49AM
At the recent Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, I caught up with Glenn Keels (Cisco’s Director of Unified Computing System Product Marketing) where we discussed the zippy new UCS C-Series servers which promise to bring speed, efficiency, and agility …Read more.
Posted by Alexandra Krasne on October 29, 2009 at 05:55PM
On my previous blog post “What exactly is a Nexus 4000?” there were many questions/comments around OEM blade server vendors and details of Nexus 4000 Series Blade Switches . Today, IBM announced the details of the Cisco Nexus 4000 blade switch for their …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on October 20, 2009 at 05:27PM
Government Agency Upgrades Application Infrastructure…and by doing so provides a great proof point of why old load balancers should be virtualized (source: IDC) . Faced with challenges of an aging application infrastructure and needing to scale application delivery state wide with security …Read more.
Posted by Yogesh Rami on October 16, 2009 at 09:21AM
If you want to get the most out of your curriculum, and be ready for the next generation of data centers, here is a nice itinerary for the 4 days at Oracle OpenworldMonday 10/12/2009 Time Session/ Demo Title Session ID …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on October 09, 2009 at 12:52AM
Cisco VP of Service Provider Marketing, Suraj Shetty, shares insights from customer meetings at ITU in Geneva highlighting optimism in technology adoption and acceleration. After the jump, hear more from Cisco SVP Kelly Ahuja…
Posted by Doug Webster on October 08, 2009 at 10:28AM
OK so first of all, I’d like to thank all the folks here who took time to post extremely useful comments on my previous blog “ So What Exactly is a Nexus 4000?” . I’m glad to see that there is …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on October 08, 2009 at 09:57AM
Mark Fulgham, VP Cisco Data Center Solutions invites you to join us on Cisco booth (2301) to talk about running your Oracle applications on unified computing system . Cisco and Oracle have been for a long time partners, working together on …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on October 06, 2009 at 12:48PM
Now this is not a rhetorical question. I want answers, folks, answers! In the past we posed such questions but answered them in the same blog post. I’d like to try a different approach, I would like our blog readers …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on October 05, 2009 at 08:57PM
So Cisco has been on the forefront in leading Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) in ANSI standard bodies along with Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards for lossless Ethernet in IEEE. We were the also the first company to productize a …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on September 28, 2009 at 09:07AM
Hope you all have been keeping well! “Data Centers of the Future”, “DC 3.0”, and similar terms have been getting a lot of play lately. They remind me of the work Cisco has been doing to compare the benefits of …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on September 25, 2009 at 12:08PM
Join us for a live Internet TV broadcast featuring our special guest Derek Masseth, Senior Director for Infrastructure Services at the University of Arizona, who will share his experience how the university united its data center using Fibre Channel over …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on September 25, 2009 at 09:17AM
We’ve recently embarked on an logical extension of the Advanced Services we’ve been providing for efficiency assessments for the last 24 months. Our Facilities Design Specification Service is uncovering some interesting new approaches to energy efficient data center design. Since …Read more.
Posted by Rob Aldrich on September 18, 2009 at 09:30PM
We’ve recently embarked on an logical extension of the Advanced Services we’ve been providing for efficiency assessments for the last 24 months. Our Facilities Design Specification Service is uncovering some interesting new approaches to energy efficient data center design. Since …Read more.
Posted by Rob Aldrich on September 18, 2009 at 08:26PM
Posted by Didier Rombaut on September 03, 2009 at 12:25AM
Day 1 - EMC Dave Graham, VMware Ernesto tey, Cisco Omara Sultan talk about the Data Center at VMworld 2009 based on Unified Computing Systems , Nexus and Cisco MDS Day 2 - EMC Chad Sakac and Dave Graham, VMware …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on September 01, 2009 at 11:35PM
Interesting analogy I saw today in story from Byte & Switch blogger Frank Berry. He used the analogy of SUVs and their rather spartan initial models (can you say “early Ford Bronco” or “Cash for Clunkers”?) to the recent unified …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on September 01, 2009 at 02:30PM
Recently VMWare announced its intent to acquire the privately-held Java tools vendor SpringSource. Perhaps it’s one more indication that applications and workloads will increasingly rely on a virtualized (and eventually a cloud-based) infrastructure. For service providers, this represents yet another …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on August 28, 2009 at 05:00AM
The Dept of Energy last month (July 2009) released its Smart Grid System Report. In my first posting on this report, I noted which areas were rated as Moderate in penetration or forecasted market trending. Of note were the key …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on August 07, 2009 at 09:29AM
First of all let me introduce myself….English native now Americanized who has been in the valley for 15 years, having worked with likes of Cisco, Bay, Sun , Brocade, Neterion, and now Cisco again, with firm roots in server, storage, …Read more.
Posted by Yogesh Rami on August 05, 2009 at 01:10PM
For more of the latest content from the Data Center teams, please check out the full version of the Data Center Newsletter, July 2009 Edition. By Peter Linkin - Data Center Solutions Marketing Consolidation is everywhere. People are moving back …Read more.
Posted by Kim Austin Peterson on July 27, 2009 at 12:00PM
I came across this article published by CIOZone on July 20, 2009 - “IT Spending Forecasts Improve, Cisco Popular”; and obviously, am pleased by the positive results around Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS). An impressive number - “77 percent of …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on July 24, 2009 at 10:40AM
Apparently attorneys, corporate security consultants and numerous other industry pundits have discovered the cloud services phenomenon. Some are actively promoting fear, uncertainty and doubt about the “potential” for growing security, transparency and data portability concerns. However, there’s a compelling precedent …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on July 15, 2009 at 10:44AM
Prise de la Bastille, by Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel “On 5 May 1789, (the King) Louis XVI convened the Estates-General to hear their grievances. The deputies of the Third Estate representing the common people (the two others were the Church and nobility) …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on July 14, 2009 at 09:29AM
When Cisco talks about collaboration, Cisco talks about people connecting creating, and innovating .Together. That’s exactly what Cisco , Verizon and their customer are doing with Verizon Managed Optimization Service that uses Cisco WAAS In this short video, Steven Capozzi, …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on July 09, 2009 at 10:17PM
I had the opportunity last week to deliver a keynote at Cisco Live in front of ten thousand people at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and another three thousand who joined virtually. I extend my sincere thanks to all …Read more.
Posted by Padmasree Warrior on July 08, 2009 at 11:01AM
Kirk Skaugen, Vice President of the Digital Enterprise Group and general manager of the Server Platforms Group for Intel Corporation, was at cisco Live to highlight the partnership between Cisco and Intel. He met John Chambers, Cisco Chairman & CEO, …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on July 07, 2009 at 05:06PM
Couple of days after my first meeting in San Francisco with Stuart Miniman, EMC Technologist CTO Office and Kash Shaikh, Cisco Senior Manager Data Center Solutions, I invited both of them for another conversation on FCoE. This time they focus …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on July 06, 2009 at 03:25PM
At Cisco Live I had the opportunity to organize a meeting with Stuart Miniman -EMC Technologist CTO Office - and Kash Shaikh -Senior Manager, Cisco Data Center Solutions- to talk about FCoe Standardization and the impact on the market . …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on July 01, 2009 at 10:02AM
Tonight Cisco Omar Sultan, James Urquhart, Chris Hoff and EMC Stuart Miniman , Chad Sakac , joined me at the Marriott Hotel to share about their second day at Cisco Live. Today we were at lunch with David Lawler, VP …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on June 30, 2009 at 06:02PM
Do you believe in the power of numbers? The other day I was struck by the number 7. At Cisco Live next week, the Cisco Data Center Solutions team is building an amazing demo called “The Data Center of the …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on June 24, 2009 at 09:44AM
We’ve been talking about Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision & strategy for a while now. How Cisco Data Center 3.0 provides a granular, multi-phase journey for transforming data center to meet the evolving needs of the business with a strategy …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on June 18, 2009 at 05:33PM
If you suddenly had chest pains, you wouldn’t trust anybody to walk in from the street and fix your heart - you’d want the most sophisticated experts you could find. The same holds true for today’s ever-growing complex networks and …Read more.
Posted by Jeanne Dunn on June 15, 2009 at 11:35AM
Today, across the United States, the last regular analog television broadcasts are being shut off and by tonight all over-the-air television will only be in a digital format (with a handful of special exceptions for rural areas). Most of the …Read more.
Posted by Suraj Shetty on June 12, 2009 at 02:04PM
It was just a short time ago that I was on SP360 writing about cloud services and the impact it will have on the SP services market. This was in reference to the launch of Cisco’s Unified Service Delivery solution, …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on June 11, 2009 at 03:14PM
One of Cisco’s internal mantras of late is the need to balance innovation with operational excellence. Our corporate CTO, Padmasree Warrior, laid out this argument as a part of a recent series predicting the future of collaboration. Essentially, a critical …Read more.
Posted by James Urquhart on June 09, 2009 at 10:36AM
I was privileged to be a part of the Enterprise Cloud Summit that took place at the beginning of Interop in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. The program was excellent, with an all-star list of cloud computing experts and …Read more.
Posted by James Urquhart on June 08, 2009 at 09:16AM
Following my presentation at the Futurenet Conference in Boston on May 6, 2009 entitled, “Disruption: Emerging Technologies and Business Models,” I flew to India to meet with customers and colleagues in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. The atmosphere was rather …Read more.
Posted by Monique Morrow on June 05, 2009 at 09:34AM
On day two of Partner Summit 2009 in Boston, I sat down for a chat with Cisco’s CTO Padmasree Warrior. During our discussion, she revealed her insights on the future of IT and collaboration. And, she makes one thing clear: …Read more.
Posted by Alexandra Krasne on June 04, 2009 at 04:21AM
Hear a snapshot of the keynote Kevin Bloch, Cisco CTO of Australia and New Zealand, presented at EMC Inform in Sydney filmed on the go on a Flip Video. Not only will you hear about the value our partnership with …Read more.
Posted by Linda Horiuchi on June 02, 2009 at 04:11PM
For the past year, we at Cisco have been altering the way businesses think about and approach their data centers. But for a much longer period of time, those same businesses have faced growing challenges. The to-do list is long …Read more.
Posted by John McCool on June 02, 2009 at 02:29PM
Sometimes it’s more fun sitting on the panel than it is watching it from the audience. It certainly provided a unique opportunity to watch a group of experienced IT vendor technologists and marketeers all claim to be unique, and THE …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on May 26, 2009 at 05:24PM
Perhaps you’re wondering where the demand for cloud services will come from, what will be the key market drivers, and how will service provider business models fit into the expanding view of the overall IT infrastructure virtualization market landscape. A …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on May 22, 2009 at 10:18AM
Part 1 of a series of four interviews with Cisco and EMC experts in Storage Networking. Bill Marozas, Cisco Data Center Solutions Marketing, talks about the Cisco MDS 9000 , and what customers are asking him at EMC World this …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on May 20, 2009 at 10:21AM
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) just won “2009 Best of Interop Award” in the Data Center & Storage category at industry leading global technology event Interop 2009. Here is what judges have to say about UCS “It’s clear that Cisco …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on May 20, 2009 at 09:10AM
In the near term, even without the current global economic challenges, it’s apparent that 2009 was already going to be a year of significant transition for most broadband service providers. A recent assessment from Mike Cansfield at Forrester Research describes …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on May 15, 2009 at 09:04AM
When the first automobiles were conceived and designed, it was difficult for some people to take a forward-looking view of this innovation. The term “horseless-carriage” was an attempt to describe this new mode of transportation from a historical perspective. Ready …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on May 14, 2009 at 11:52AM
Since Cisco first introduced the concept of oversubscribed Fibre Channel modules in the storage networking industry with the MDS 9000 Family, there has been quite a bit of confusion between oversubscribed and blocking architectures, often incorrectly using the two terms …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on May 14, 2009 at 09:18AM
When the first automobiles were conceived and designed, it was difficult for some people to take a forward-looking view of this innovation. The term “horseless-carriage” was an attempt to describe this new mode of transportation from a historical perspective. Ready …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on May 13, 2009 at 08:21AM
Cisco Unified Service Delivery combines the power of the data center with the power of the network to transform service delivery and build the foundation for cloud services. Learn more by viewing the video or slides below. Cisco Unified Service …Read more.
Posted by Suraj Shetty on May 11, 2009 at 08:53PM
Many industry pundits have missed the proverbial forest for the trees this week. IBM’s recent announcement in which they detail the broadening of their joint Brocade/Foundry GTM strategy has been misinterpreted as an anti-Cisco strategy. In reality, it’s an anti-HP …Read more.
Posted by Bill Marozas on April 29, 2009 at 10:28AM
While server virtualization continues to redefine how (and where) IT and data center teams deploy computing resources, a gap in organizational boundaries still exists in most enterprise and public sector IT organizations that results in “the left hand not knowing …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on April 28, 2009 at 10:41AM
I put together this teaser video showing our approach to modeling highly efficient, highly dense data center zones (aka pods, clusters). Simply defined, a data center zone is a physical construct that is built to support any number of logical …Read more.
Posted by Rob Aldrich on April 24, 2009 at 10:25AM
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) just won “Best Data Center Innovation” award at BladeSystems Insight 2009 event. Details will be available here soon. BladeSystems Insight is an executive summit for data center blade server technologies, took place April 19-21, 2009 …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on April 22, 2009 at 08:20AM
While you regularly hear from Cisco IT in this space, courtesy of Sidney and Doug, I thought you folks might want to get some other perspectives. Here is a series of podcasts from Intel IT where they share their thoughts …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on April 21, 2009 at 10:44PM
David M. Smith of Gartner spent some time with me a few weeks ago exploring Cisco’s cloud computing vision. I walked him through a variety of concepts, such as private clouds, virtual private clouds and open clouds. We also spoke …Read more.
Posted by James Urquhart on April 13, 2009 at 05:56AM
Virtualization is a new tool in the data center efficiency tool box. When used properly, the virtualization tool rewards the data center owner with reduced costs and efficient data center operations. If the tool is used improperly, unanticipated consequences can …Read more.
Posted by Paul Marcoux on March 31, 2009 at 03:07PM
While I’ve seen a lot of kudos of our innovative Unified Computing System announcement in the last two weeks, I have been concerned by some of the “Cisco declaration of war” theme coverage. As someone here at Cisco, who has …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on March 27, 2009 at 09:05AM
With our announcement of our Unified Computing System on Monday, I wanted to provide a little bit of the historical context of how Cisco got into the data center technology space: A lot of people say it started with the …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 18, 2009 at 08:01AM
Yesterday I had a question get asked often enough that we felt it best to answer it on our blog: where should I deploy Unified Computing Systems? We see four main opportunities for unified computing in the near-term: 1) Greenfield …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 17, 2009 at 02:33PM
So, here we are. Today, we (officially) announce our Unified Computing system. There has been quite the buzz in the industry for awhile about Cisco introducing blade servers and what not, but see for yourself what we are…and what we …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on March 16, 2009 at 07:58AM
Designing a (successful) product is always tricky; first of all, you need to properly define and wisely select your product requirements. But whatever market segment you are in, your product requirements will change over time. No matter how good you …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on March 16, 2009 at 01:46AM
I sometimes wonder when someone copies some of the things I’m doing, whether I should be flattered that someone is inspired so much that they would do such a thing? Or I should be upset about it? Personally I don’t …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on March 15, 2009 at 08:54PM
The Virtual Machine is like Neo in The Matrix. The IT world shapes itself around the VM. Remember the ‘Classic 3-Tier network architecture with Layer-2 and Layer-3 segmentation, a standard address hierarchy, and consistent policies????, Burn it. Throw it away. …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 14, 2009 at 12:59PM
As I read about forced industry consolidations and our competitor’s ambitious plans to catch up with Cisco to deliver Unified Fabric years from now, it makes me realize the power and effect of Cisco Unified Fabric vision. While these companies …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on March 12, 2009 at 10:43PM
I’ve been asked a lot about why would Cisco build a blade server recently. I don’t know where these rumors and speculation come from. But notwithstanding I thought I would write out the answers I usually give. 1) Cisco is …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 12, 2009 at 11:33AM
It may seem overly simple but generally speaking consolidation can be a great way to reduce total energy use in your data center over a given period. The implications of implementing unified fabrics from our Cisco Nexus line is no …Read more.
Posted by Rob Aldrich on March 11, 2009 at 10:21AM
Here are some interesting thoughts from Doug Alger on how some companies are looking to deal with their excess data center heat. This is a good example of how thinking is evolving on the topic. While we expect power and …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 08, 2009 at 10:45PM
I have to admit that its gratifying to see our competitors validate decisions we made a couple of years ago with regards to the need for a unified fabric in the data center. After dismissing FCoE or worse, completely missing …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 06, 2009 at 12:31AM
As of late, much attention in the industry has been paid to Data Centers and for good reason - it’s a fundamental part of the network that is powering the Connected Life experience for us all, and like Enterprises, it …Read more.
Posted by Doug Webster on February 03, 2009 at 09:13AM
There has been a lot of chatter about Cisco and unified computing and the data center/virtualization space…as well as what markets we are or are not entering. Our CTO, Padmasree Warrior, posted a blog on the topic of “unified computing” …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on February 02, 2009 at 02:30PM
Expanding or developing an ecosystem from a point product or technology solution to a broad-reaching one is always a beneficial effort from vendors for their customers. HP’s just announced Open Network Ecosystem (ONE) is certainly a logical strategy and effort …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on January 28, 2009 at 09:58AM
As Padmasree stated in her blog post on Unified Computing, “Yes.” We are in the middle of a series of disruptions, both technological and economic. On the technology front there is an increasing shift to using virtualization technologies to extend …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on January 20, 2009 at 11:30AM
“I’ve discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start” – Bobby Clarke Lately, there has been a lot of speculation by the technorati that “something is going on over at Cisco!” I am sure you have all …Read more.
Posted by Padmasree Warrior on January 19, 2009 at 07:51PM
I has a chance to sit down with Sidney and Doug before the holidays to catch up. So, in this installment of the DC TechMinute, Doug talks about the various server cabling options we are looking at in our data …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on January 09, 2009 at 12:36PM
Well… sort of. Had an interesting “Green” data center discussion at a conference this week that addressed some nuance on the developing taxonomy of energy efficiency in IT. So… to pose a specific question: Will adopting energy efficient solutions from …Read more.
Posted by Rob Aldrich on December 19, 2008 at 08:53PM
Had many investor meetings this week where we discussed ‘the numbers’. So we put these numbers together into one presentation to consistently discuss ‘the numbers’ and how they create the virtual envelope we operate within to create customer value in …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on December 16, 2008 at 05:17PM
I am at our C-scape Industry analyst conference today. The in-person event is at the Fairmont in San Jose, while this year we are also bringing it over the network to those who could not travel for the event. The …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on December 09, 2008 at 11:09AM
My gift to you is a bit of entertainment to get your weekend started off with a smile. Apparently, energy efficiency is still a hot issue (yes, that was a pun) and I am still surprised I get hits on …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on November 21, 2008 at 03:51PM
I recently has the opportunity to sit down with Doug and chat about the process Cisco goes through to forecast and size capacity of our data centers.
Posted by Omar Sultan on November 17, 2008 at 09:29AM
We recently turned up FCoE (on the Nexus 5000) in one of our production data centers. Here is an interview with Sidney discussing the results and what we learned during the process.
Posted by Omar Sultan on November 17, 2008 at 09:25AM
One of our goals for our blog is to bring in some different perspectives to you. As you might have noticed, our first foray is with a couple of new folks from Cisco IT: Doug Alger and Sidney Morgan. Both …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on October 29, 2008 at 10:51PM
Noticed the rising energy cost recently? What have you done to lower the carbon footprint? The IT and Communications infrastructure is growing dramatically driven by increasing traffic loads. Enterprises and Service Providers are incurring rising energy costs and exploring ways …Read more.
Posted by Kelly Ahuja on October 20, 2008 at 10:18AM
I was just trying out the updated Data Center Assurance Program tool. It includes SP and Enterprise architectures and we currently are testing the Nexus 7000 and Nexus 5000 through this program. To help things along I made a quick …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on October 12, 2008 at 05:48PM
Quentin Hardy pens the cover story in the latest issue of Forbes on our data center strategy. Entitled “Cisco’s Next Big Bet,” Hardy writes a very digestible piece about huge data centers as “the hot spot in technology.” Cisco Chairman …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on September 15, 2008 at 04:19PM
In one word, NOTHING. They are all three letter acronyms used to describe the same thing. All three of these acronyms describe an architectural collection of Ethernet extensions (based on open standards) designed to improve Ethernet networking and management in …Read more.
Posted by Anthony Faustini on September 10, 2008 at 01:29PM
So I have been a auto enthusiast for forever. For much of that time, I have been an adherent to the mantra “there is no replacement for displacement” (sorry Rob). What has changed over the years, however, is that car …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on September 10, 2008 at 02:16AM
Boy, who knew a simple open source Webkit based browser would cause so much angst. Google’s release of the beta of Chrome today caused all kinds of havoc in the blogosphere. The first article I happened to read was written …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on September 03, 2008 at 01:49AM
So I have had the opportunity over the last few weeks to talk to a number of folks about server virtualization—likes, dislikes, where its going. Depending on your choice of market research or anecdote, it seems that the number of …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on September 02, 2008 at 01:39PM
Mario Apicella, senior analyst for the InfoWorld Test Center, recently posted the results of his comprehensive test of the Cisco Nexus 5020. The article provides good insight into the Nexus 5020 in particular and the Nexus family in general. Of …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on July 29, 2008 at 12:08AM
For those of you going to going to the Next Generation Data Center conference in San Francisco in a couple of weeks, be sure to check out Rajiv Ramaswami‘s keynote: “Data Center 3.0: How the Network is Transforming the Data …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on July 25, 2008 at 12:25AM
We had an interesting thread unfold on an internal list, which I thought I would open up to our readership. Someone was foraging around the network and came across some impressive server uptime (all server names changed to keep infosec …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on July 24, 2008 at 01:11AM
Anwar Ghuloum recently posted to the Intel Research blog about the conversations they are having with developers around developing for multi-core and terascale environments. To quote Anwar: “Ultimately, the advice I’ll offer is that these developers should start thinking about …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on July 06, 2008 at 09:22PM
Here is a frank, wide-ranging interview that Om Malik conducted with Debra Chrapaty, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Global Foundation Services. She covers a number of topics from their data center strategy to the role of containers to environmental initiatives and …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on July 01, 2008 at 06:49PM
If you caught the keynote by Padmasree Warrior, our CTO, at Cisco Live, you know that the concept of “innovation through collaboration” is a key priority. So what does that mean? Well, one example is Jamey Heary’s recent discussion on …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on July 01, 2008 at 02:49PM
So I’ve been instructed by more than a few customers to bite the blog bullet coming out of Cisco Live last week, the artist formally known as Networkers. We made a couple of big announcements that I’m personally very excited …Read more.
Posted by Rob Aldrich on July 01, 2008 at 01:36PM
As customers look to expand the level of server virtualization in their data centers, they often come back to us and ask what the impact will be on their data center network. This happens often enough that we locked some …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 26, 2008 at 04:57PM
Well, it’s been a year since my first blog post on, which happened to be about the newly announced Data Center 3.0. As you may remember, at the time Jayshree Ullal noted that DC 3.0 was going to be a …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 25, 2008 at 04:03PM
On Tuesday, Cisco announced it would reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2012. I spoke with Sean Worthington, Vice President, Information Technology and Rob Rolfsen, Director of Sustainable Development, to hear their insights on how Cisco will …Read more.
Posted by Ken Lotich on June 25, 2008 at 08:50AM
I was interested to note that Denise Dubie, senior editor of Network World recently published an article in which she acknowledges Cisco’s VFrame provisioning appliance as a viable product offering in the emerging Data Center automation market. Read her article …Read more.
Posted by Bill Erdman on June 20, 2008 at 03:38PM
Here at the NXTcomm08 tradeshow in Las Vegas, the Nexus 7000 has been awarded finalist status in the prestigious EOS Awards for Excellence in Technology Innovation. Cisco would like to thank the NxtComm08 EOS selection committee, which has clearly recognized …Read more.
Posted by Al Safarikas on June 17, 2008 at 10:09PM
On a day when oil hit $139/barrel and I just paid $4.72/gal to fill my gas tank, this interview with Paul Marcoux by Chris Morrison offered some interesting perspectives on energy efficiency in the data center and where Cisco is …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 06, 2008 at 02:00PM
I was making a valiant attempt to work through my ever-deepening backlog of email yesterday and I ran across something that reminded me that even though the Nexus 7000 got the lion’s share of the attention in our January DC …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 04, 2008 at 02:13PM
The old management adage you cannot manage what you don’t measure was never truer than it currently is for hundreds if not thousands of IT professionals dotting the landscape trying and are currently scratching their heads trying to figure out …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 02, 2008 at 01:28AM
So I have recently heard of a couple of instances where competitors have told our customers that, with the introduction of the Cisco Nexus, the Cisco Catalyst is dead and the customer should look at their next-gen switch instead. My …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on May 23, 2008 at 05:26PM
I was chatting with a customer the other day who was struggling with some of the implications of “cloud computing”. The analogy that finally made sense to them is what I will call “cloud dining”. I am the cook …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on May 20, 2008 at 02:54PM
Rich Miller recently posted on using containers for data center disaster recovery and references the Cisco Network Emergency Response Vehicle (NERV) as an example of deploying mobile data centers as part of a company’s disaster recovery strategy. NERV is certainly …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on May 19, 2008 at 12:02AM
Posted by Dante Malagrino on May 18, 2008 at 01:18PM
Post by Jayshree Ullal, SVP, Data Center, Switching & Services Five years ago, Cisco committed to the Data Center in a strong fashion with our entry into Storage networking and MDS products. Today our Data Center engineering and management team …Read more.
Posted by Cisco PR on May 09, 2008 at 05:30PM
Doug Gourlay, senior director, Data Center Solutions at Cisco and Mark Seery, vice president of Switching & Routing at Ovum RHK, discuss data center trends at Interop 2008. These include consolidation, Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), SFP+, Twinax cabling, and …Read more.
Posted by John Murphy on May 01, 2008 at 11:02AM
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