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April 17, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Reflections on Leading in IT

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The first time someone referred to me as a “woman leader in IT,” I was honestly caught by surprise.  I had never stopped and thought about the idea that I...

February 18, 2014

DATA CENTER

New UCS Servers deliver innovative scaling options and record-breaking power

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This week we’re announcing new systems at the upper end of the UCS server product line: some heavy-duty iron for heavy-duty times.   These are important new tools for our UCS customers:  the digital age is accelerating, IT needs more horsepower to keep up, and there is a lot at stake. Cisco UCS Servers with Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 […]

February 6, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco has entered the mission-critical application business

1 min read

As you have probably noticed,  the Cisco and SAP partnership keeps growing – Here is some of the recent news []  Unisys, RealTech and others install SAP HANA on Cisco UCS ” Manufacturers are struggling with the provisioning of applications into the infrastructure” In this video, Joachim Weide, Director Transformation Services, Unisys talks about SAP HANA […]

November 29, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco expands the SAP Competency Center in Walldorf in a big way

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The Cisco SAP Competency Center expanded its presence at the SAP Partner Port in Walldorf  Germany on November 11, 2013. Watch the video of Padmasree Warrior, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cisco and Vishal Sikka, CTO and Executive Board Member for SAP as they welcome those that attended the opening of the Competency […]

November 10, 2013

DATA CENTER

Building a Trusted SAP HANA Data Center

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SAP®HANATM is a next-generation database platform for real-time analytics and applications. Although the in-memory, columnar relational database debuted only recently (in June 2011), it has quickly become the fastest growing product in the history of SAP AG. Already proven enormously successful for analytics, SAP HANA now supports SAP Business Suite, SAP’s flagship enterprise resource planning […]

October 28, 2013

DATA CENTER

Announcing Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture v2 (CPA v2) for Big Data

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Also launches, Industry’s first reference architecture for Hadoop with advanced access control and encryption with IDH, first flash-enhanced reference architecture for Hadoop demonstrated using YCSB with MapR, industry’s first validated and certified solution for real-time Big Data analytics with SAP HANA, and Unleashing IT big data special edition Built up on our vision of shared […]

July 1, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco ISE and SAP Afaria: Be productive on and off the Network

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Reduce the barriers to mobile productivity while making sure the corporate network is secure. Impossible? Seems like it. But that’s what the business continues to demand. SAP Afaria support for Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is a key component of policies based on conditionality that attempts to negotiate the gap between employees who want to […]

May 7, 2013

DATA CENTER

What is Cisco and SAP doing together?

2 min read

3 years ago Cisco entered the server platform market with the Unified Computing System (UCS). This server platform was built from the ground up for virtualization and immediately started making an impact and gaining market share. Today it holds the number 2 position worldwide for blades. At this same time Cisco began to deepen its […]

May 7, 2013

DATA CENTER

Change is the only constant in data center infrastructure

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By: VCE CTO Trey Layton at EMC World 2013     (@treylayton) Greek philosopher, Heraclitus said “change is the only constant in life.” And without question, change is the lifeblood to our industry and like any transition, albeit from VHS to digital, from board games to mobile apps, or even dare I say it, Tom […]