SDN

October 21, 2013

DATA CENTER

The Promise of an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

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At Cisco live! Orlando in June, Cisco unveiled its vision for an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a next-generation, secure...

October 15, 2013

DATA CENTER

Nexus 3100 at Interop

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On September 30th at Interop New York  we announced the Cisco Nexus 3100 top-of-rack flexible switches. The show floor was buzzing with the news and the Techwise TV video below with Senior Product Manager, Jag Tamvada and self proclaimed Chief Networking Geek Jimmy Ray Purser discuss details of the switches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EuaaWBRKBU&feature=share&list=PL932C620970B9A779

October 10, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Despite budget constraints, spending on cyber security set to increase according to Cisco study of government IT decisio …

2 min read

While the shutdown challenges in the federal government over the past week have been top-of-mind, a recent Cisco survey has discovered that when operations resume, overall budget constraints are seen...

October 9, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco Domain Ten: The Compendium

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It’s hard to believe but it’s ten months since I first blogged on  Cisco Domain TenSM,  which is Cisco Service’s framework to guide you on your path to data center and cloud transformation. I’ve now covered all ten domains of this concise and powerful model.  I’ll now collect all articles – including my most Cisco Domain […]

September 30, 2013

PARTNER

Partner Voices: Why Agile Tools and Processes Are Critical to IT Operations

4 min read

Guest blogger Colin McNamara, Nexus IS Director of Cloud Practice and Chief Cloud Architect, shares tips on how to transition to software development based engineering.

September 30, 2013

DATA CENTER

Introducing Cisco Nexus 3100 Top of Rack Data Center Switches

1 min read

Cisco always strives to innovate while meeting customer needs. Today we are proud to unveil the  Cisco Nexus 3100 line of switches as part of our Unified Fabric Data Center portfolio. These highly scalable, power efficient, and flexible switches feature significant improvements in port density, programmability and VXLAN capable gateway functionality that are ideal for […]

September 26, 2013

DATA CENTER

SDN: Cisco Domain Ten tells us it’s not (just) about the Network

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In my first SDN blog, I asserted that "Services" - that is technical support, professional and consultancy services - are the missing "S" in the SDN debate.  I'd...

September 10, 2013

DATA CENTER

August 2013 #SecureDC Twitter Chat Recap: SDN Security

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Our first SecureDC twitter chat created some great industry dialog around security for Software Defined Networks (SDN) as well as using SDN to improve security. SDN is going through a similar hype cycle as seen with cloud and we feel that it’s important to focus more on education now and broader collaboration, so that users […]

September 9, 2013

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Wall Street and Data Analytics, They Are Only As Good As The Network That Connects Them

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At this years’ 2013 High Performance Computing on Wall Street once again the greatest minds from the financial services industry gathered to discuss the latest technology trends that give financial firms a technology edge in accessing information in real-time to better predict where markets are going and the best areas to invest. Many vendors delivered […]