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
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
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
So, since we initially demo-ed an inter-data center VMotion solution and CiscoLive!, we have been working dilligently with VMware to develop and refine the solution. Inter-data center workload mobility has a lot of moving parts involved. Essentially, you need to …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on August 31, 2009 at 09:43PM
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
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
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
The Cisco Visual Networking Index details that by 2012, the total annual volume of IP traffic will reach half a zettabyte with video accounting for nearly 90% of this traffic. With all the attention centered on the growth of video, …Read more.
Posted by Mike Capuano on June 04, 2009 at 01:48PM
Murmurs on Wall Street and in the media point to signs that the recession has already hit its worst and that we’re headed for an upturn. While it may be too early to say the economy is on an upswing, …Read more.
Posted by Johanna Fry on June 03, 2009 at 09:16AM
When discussing unified fabric with customers these days, the conversation is increasingly shifting from “why?” to “how?” Here are some of the slides I will use to brief customers on the “how”. The important thing to note is that the …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 31, 2009 at 01:24AM
Doug and I were having an interesting conversation the other day, which I thought was worth sharing…. In 1965 Gordon Moore postulated in a paper that transistor density would double approximately every two years. We’ve heard people question why networking …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 24, 2009 at 06:38PM
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
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
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
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 is a quick update from Sidney on the progress with the Nexus and unified fabric deployment in Cisco’s production data centers. Beyond Sidney’s update, you can get more details on the project here.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 08, 2009 at 09:35PM
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
So what is a Fabric Extender? In short, its going to change the way to network your server racks. The best way to understand the Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender, or FEX, is to view it as a remote linecard located …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on January 28, 2009 at 03:27AM
So, a year ago, we kicked off a little party with the launch of the Nexus 7000 and NX-OS. As you can see, we have been busy year—we have fleshed out the Nexus portfolio with the Nexus 5000 and 1000V, …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on January 27, 2009 at 12:25AM
Stuart Miniman from EMC leads a whiteboard ‘chalk-talk’ on FibreChannel over Ethernet. An important part of Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 initiative FCoE is continuing to be embraced by an ever larger vendor and now customer community. With over 250 customers …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on December 18, 2008 at 08:34AM
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
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
Just recorded this this morning here in Barcelona about our announcements at VMWorld in Las Vegas. dg
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on September 16, 2008 at 03:30PM
John McCool, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Center, Switching and Services Group, provides a snapshot of what he will be discussing at the Financial Analyst Conference. Read more about today’s announcement of the Nexus 1000V, a virtual networking …Read more.
Posted by Ken Lotich on September 16, 2008 at 02:01PM
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 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
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