Government Agency Upgrades Application Infrastructure…and by doing so provides a great proof point of why old load balancers should be virtualized (source: IDC) . Faced with challenges of an aging application infrastructure and needing to scale application delivery state wide with security …Read more.
Posted by Yogesh Rami on October 16, 2009 at 09:21AM
First of all let me introduce myself….English native now Americanized who has been in the valley for 15 years, having worked with likes of Cisco, Bay, Sun , Brocade, Neterion, and now Cisco again, with firm roots in server, storage, …Read more.
Posted by Yogesh Rami on August 05, 2009 at 01:10PM
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
As I have noted before, the Cisco/VMware relationship has some deep roots and our engineers have been having much fun together. Check out this video featuring Mark Bakke, a Technical Leader at Cisco chatting about the N1KV/vSphere solution: …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 18, 2009 at 01:54PM
Here is an updated video (in two parts) in which Pierre, one of our TMEs takes you through an in-depth tour of the Cisco Nexus 1000V including config, port profiles and VMotion in action. If these entice you to want …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 17, 2009 at 07:56AM
In the next in our series of mini-interviews with Nexus 1000V customer, we have thoughts from Olivier Parcollet, IT Architect at SETAO. Those of you who went to VMworld Europe might have seen Olivier join Ed Bugnion during his keynote. …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 01, 2009 at 01:51PM
In this posting we’ll move from server virtualization and its potential impact on both WANs and IT organizational structures to desktop virtualization (also known as VDI, or virtualized desktop infrastructure). The emerging set of VDI technologies and solutions has many …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on May 11, 2009 at 05:51PM
While server virtualization continues to redefine how (and where) IT and data center teams deploy computing resources, a gap in organizational boundaries still exists in most enterprise and public sector IT organizations that results in “the left hand not knowing …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on April 28, 2009 at 10:41AM
We just posted an a new document to the website that provides further detail on virtual networking with the N1KV. A key part of the doc is a comparison of the existing VMW vSwitch vs the new VMW vDS and …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on April 15, 2009 at 12:25PM
What’s not to love about Cannes, France: the food, the wine, the French Riviera, the Nexus 1000V….huh? Yes, this week, Cannes is home to VMworld Europe where all things VMware are under discussion. Folks lucky enough to be at the …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on February 24, 2009 at 11:08PM
So, here we are again with another “Wishful Thinking” post because, yet again, someone would rather hurry to TGI Fridays for their appletini fix, than take the time to do some due diligence. Or, perhaps they can’t come up with …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on February 11, 2009 at 01:06PM
I has a chance to sit down with Sidney and Doug before the holidays to catch up. So, in this installment of the DC TechMinute, Doug talks about the various server cabling options we are looking at in our data …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on January 09, 2009 at 12:36PM
Desktop virtualization has evolved in 2008 as a promising technology, with major vendors announcing or updating their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions. IDC predicts that desktop virtualization will grow to $2 billion annually by 2011, while Gartner forecasts that up …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on December 15, 2008 at 05:46PM
Those of you who are familiar with TechWiseTV know this will be good—for the rest of you, be sure to check this out. You can register here
Posted by Omar Sultan on October 10, 2008 at 11:37PM
After last week in VMworld, I am convinced that we will see broader adoption of a unified fabric in the server access layer sooner than later. For starters, the technologies that were introduced earlier this year are emerging from the …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on September 22, 2008 at 12:23AM
Rich Miller made a point I wanted to echo in a recent post: “Maritz and the VMware organization has proven their ability to retake some thought leadership and generate momentum.” Heading into VMworld, there were certainly some questions hanging out …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on September 21, 2008 at 02:01AM
What a hectic but fun week at VMworld. The show finally ended yesterday, they were turning out the lights and ripping up the carpet and we still had folks lined up for Nexus 1000V demos—gotta love that. So, beyond the …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on September 19, 2008 at 03:20PM
Quick update—the Cisco Nexus 1000V, VN-Link, and NX-OS 4.1 just won “Best of Show” for Best New Technology at VMworld 2008. Details here.
Posted by Omar Sultan on September 17, 2008 at 05:04PM
I am not a huge fan of going to tradeshows—in fact, I generally avoid them, but I am actually looking forward to VMworld this coming week. If half the speculation is true, I think we should see some things will …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on September 13, 2008 at 12:01AM
So I have been a auto enthusiast for forever. For much of that time, I have been an adherent to the mantra “there is no replacement for displacement” (sorry Rob). What has changed over the years, however, is that car …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on September 10, 2008 at 02:16AM
So I have had the opportunity over the last few weeks to talk to a number of folks about server virtualization—likes, dislikes, where its going. Depending on your choice of market research or anecdote, it seems that the number of …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on September 02, 2008 at 01:39PM
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