UCS

October 16, 2014

SECURITY

New Security White Paper: Unified Computing System (UCS) Hardening Guide

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Check out the new Cisco UCS Hardening Guide white paper which is now released  and available on the Cisco Security Portal. The paper outlines and highlights security best practices for Cisco UCS. This paper provides information to help users secure Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) platform and provides guidance on how to harden Cisco […]

October 14, 2014

DATA CENTER

Changing the Economics of Desktop and App Virtualization at the Enterprise Edge

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In my last post I discussed how Cisco UCS Mini is helping us expand beyond the traditional confines of the data center, to deliver desktop and app virtualization with exceptional user experience, manageability and TCO savings – at the enterprise edge. We’re only going to see more investment and focus in this space, thanks to […]

October 2, 2014

DATA CENTER

Enable Automated Big Data Workloads with Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler

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In our previous big data blogs, a number of my Cisco associates have talked about the right infrastructure, the right sizing, the right integrated infrastructure management and the right provisioning and orchestration for your clusters. But, to gain the benefits of pervasive use of big data,  you’ll need to accelerate your big data deployments and […]

October 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged S6|Ep11: #UCSGrandSlam from Admin View

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In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged, Roving Reporter Lauren Malhoit (@malhoit) talks to Adam Eckerle (@eck79) about #UCSGrandSlam and UCS as a platform. Great view of the tech from...

September 30, 2014

DATA CENTER

Turbocharging new Hadoop workloads with Application Centric Infrastructure

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At the June Hadoop Summit in San Jose, Hadoop was re-affirmed as the data center “killer app,” riding an avalanche of Enterprise Data, which is growing 50x annually through...

September 30, 2014

DATA CENTER

NetApp and Cisco Deliver Extreme Performance For Oracle Database

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Guest post by Aaron Newcomb, Solutions Marketing Manager, NetApp No one wants the 2:00 am distressed phone call disturbing a good night’s sleep. For IT Managers and Database Administrators that 2:00 am call is typically bad news regarding the systems they support. Users in another region are not able to access an application. Customers are […]

September 24, 2014

DATA CENTER

UCS M-Series Design Principles – Why bigger is not necessarily better!

2 min read

Cisco UCS M-Series servers have been purpose built to fit specific need in the data center. The core design principles are around sizing the compute node to meet the needs of cloud scale applications. When I was growing up I used to watch a program on PBS called 3-2-1 Contact, most afternoons, when I came […]

September 24, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

We Won! LTE Asia Awards Update

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So great news! A couple hours ago, the LTE Asia Organizers tweeted: Congrats to our ‪#LTEAsia award winners: Best LTE Core Network Product ‪@Cisco Our Cisco ASR 5000 Series has been chosen the winner of the LTE Asia Best Core Product in the 1st Annual LTE Asia Event. Our ASR5000 Series is the market’s

September 23, 2014

DATA CENTER

Taking Desktop Virtualization Beyond the Data Center – with the Next Wave of Unified Computing

3 min read

If you look back at the Cisco UCS launch on September 4th, and VMworld SF just prior, the last 4 weeks have been a tsunami of solution innovation milestones in unified computing, ie: where the next wave of Unified Computing is taking us.  If you haven’t already seen the launch event “Powering Applications at Every […]