object storage

NAB 2018: here’s what you saw with the Cisco team

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Sleep deprived?  If you are one of 200 or so people on my flight back to NYC from Vegas, you sure as heck are!  With another successful NAB in the...

Cisco @NAB 2018: Driving Operational Excellence by Industrializing the Media Ecosystem

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The run-up to the 2018 National Association of Broadcasters Show is once again upon us, which means it’s time to preview what we’ll be focused on.

November 29, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 27: Cloud Storage with Joe Arnold

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Are you a lover of data storage technology? Do your ears perk up when you hear terms like “data gravity” and “erasure coding”? Do you enjoy a good debate about the proper uses of deterministic data placement versus algorithmic placement? Then this is the podcast for you. In this episode, SwiftStack founder and CEO Joe […]

September 16, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

IBC 2017: Cloudian, Cisco, and Important Trends in Media Storage

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Cisco has expanded our partnership with the fabulous folks at Cloudian, who are building ways for content providers to use S3 for private cloud access.

August 22, 2017

DATA CENTER

The storage architecture you envision is closer than it appears

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Guest Author: Mario Blandini of SwiftStack The disruption that cloud has triggered in the marketplace has many organizations looking for a deeper level of expertise and experience from their solution vendors. Cisco has long been known as the top experts in networking, and has grown in reputation as makers of the most robust x86 servers […]

Cisco@NAB: On the Beauty of Object-Based Storage for Media

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Cisco's UCS Storage Server is the right system for keeping up with data growth in the broadcast/media sector with the right object storage solution partners, and a solid set of financing options.

April 4, 2017

DATA CENTER

New Facebook storage platform looking more like Cisco UCS

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A few weeks ago, this year’s Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, California concluded. I personally love this event to see what all the big massive scale data center operators are doing. I have been following the program since it’s inception and unfortunately missed this year’s event but you can definitely be sure I was […]

February 6, 2017

DATA CENTER

What do Cisco UCS S-Series and Facebook’s Open Vault both have in common?

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Everyone these days seems to want to operate like the massive scale data center operators or at least capitalize on the economies of scale they created in their wake. It’s a familiar trickle-down economics idea that sounds great on paper but doesn’t always operationalize well for the rest of the world. In the case of […]

November 1, 2016

DATA CENTER

Introducing UCS S-Series: Data Unstored

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I frequently meet with customers who are trying to “unstore” more of their data, use it in real time, and unlock the latent value that’s contained there. In many ways this is the heart of digital transformation…but it’s also something that’s historically been a challenge to do in an economical and manageable way as data […]