data center

June 25, 2013

DATA CENTER

Meet our Experts @ CiscoLive!

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Some of our Cisco Services strategy and design consultants and leaders are at CiscoLive in Orlando this week.  If you are around, please take some time to learn from their...

June 24, 2013

DATA CENTER

Data Center and Cloud Management at Cisco Live Orlando, 2013

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We’re excited to showcase Unified Management solutions in the Data Center and Cloud booth at Cisco Live Orlando this week! There are a wide variety of opportunities to meet and engage with Data Center and Cloud Management experts at Cisco Live, and learn about the latest developments in data center management and automation software solutions. […]

E-VPN and PBB-EVPN Take Data Center Interconnect to the Next Level

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By Tina Lam, Product Manager MPLS based Layer 2 VPN has been around for over 10 years since the inception of IETF Pseuduowire Edge to Edge (PWE3) Working Group. Many drafts and standards have been added, since then, to address different applications and to improve scale and convergence in different topologies. L2VPN as a whole […]

June 20, 2013

DATA CENTER

Data Center Cloud Guide to Cisco Live 2013: Technology with a Side of Waffles

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Has it been a whole year already? It’s that time again to gather with fellow technologists from around the globe to talk shop at Cisco Live, this time in Orlando. It’s going to be hot in every way. Here is a quick guide to what’s happening from tech to social, plus waffles.

June 20, 2013

DATA CENTER

Natural Selection On Full Display in the Server World

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Recent results clearly reinforce the growing understanding that Cisco has unleashed a more highly evolved and effective solution into the computing ecosystem.   While the principles outlined by Charles Darwin in Origin of the Species can stir controversy, I find them to be an accurate model for technology evolution and quite useful for describing how we’ve arrived […]

June 20, 2013

DATA CENTER

Citrix and NetScaler 1000V Taking Cisco Cloud Network Services to the Next Level

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  With Cisco Live! in Orlando on the horizon, we are kicking off the news cycles and technology innovation a little early.  Today we’re teaming with our friends at Citrix to announce the expansion of our virtual networking portfolio and provide clarity around our strategy for application delivery controller solutions. There are two key elements […]

Cisco Wins Six Awards at Interop Tokyo 2013, Top Honors for New CRS-X

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This blog shares some terrific news from my colleagues in Japan. Cisco took six awards at Interop Tokyo 2013 last week, including the top prize for Service Provider/Carrier segment with our new CRS-X core router which launched last week. CRS-X Grand Prix in SP/Carrier segment Nexus 6000 Grand Prix in DC segment Cisco CGR Grand […]

June 14, 2013

OPEN AT CISCO

It’s A Great Time for Open Source and Cisco UCS Customers

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Witnessing the advent and momentum of Open Source into the broader enterprise, and “the mainstream” Data Center, has been incredible.  Many will look back and recall a time when Open Source was met first with a look of confusion, and following not too far behind, a reaction of fear.  With that, consider how far we’ve […]

June 14, 2013

DATA CENTER

Three Data Center Security Innovations to Accelerate Your Business

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How can you get your data center off to a smooth start? At the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit this week, I presented three data center innovations that hold the key to accelerating business securely. Ease of provisioning According to a recent Cisco IT case study, data center provisioning times have decreased from eight weeks […]