UCS

April 16, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Microsoft SQL Server 2014

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This week Microsoft launched SQL Server 2014, their data management and business intelligence platform. SQL Server at Microsoft has grown tremendously over the years; it is far from its origins as a simple relational database that Microsoft licensed from Sybase years ago. For the 2014 version of SQL Server, Microsoft has focused on continuing their […]

Ferguson Group Ltd keeps an Eye on Operations with Cisco Physical Security

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I remember growing up in the UK years ago during the UK’s  ‘North Sea Oil Boom’. It was a time of great excitement and opportunity for the nation. A whole industry was developed to deal with offshore exploration to ‘bring the energy home’. It was Aberdeen’s local ‘moon landing’ event –  just five months after […]

April 11, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Power Scripting Contest Update #1

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The scripts have started rolling in and I wanted to update you on what’s been posted to date. Maybe you could use them in your environment? To review these scripts and participate in the contest, head over to the Cisco Communities.

April 8, 2014

DATA CENTER

Oracle on Cisco UCS : Breaking Records without Breaking the Bank

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 Cisco is back at Collaborate , the great show put in place by IOUG , this year in Las Vegas April 7-...

March 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Best Ways to know if you have a Breakthrough Solution: Cisco UCS case

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These past two weeks have been a time for celebrating the 5th anniversary of UCS and an extraordinary achievement in terms of market penetration. Click on the images for more data        We made it thanks the strong and tireless support from our partners , but (make no mistakes here) primary  thanks to a breakthrough vision […]

March 25, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Five Years On: The Right Solution at the Right Time

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I knew we were on to something good when a customer told me “This is so easy, it’s CTO proof.” Early in the business, I was talking to a front-line server admin who had found that Cisco UCS made server deployment so reliable, automated and simple that he was convinced even his CTO could pull […]

March 24, 2014

PARTNER

Partners and Cisco UCS + ACI = Amazing Together

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Today at Cisco we announced the fifth anniversary of the Unified Computing System (UCS), along with innovations in our Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) portfolio.

March 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged S5|Ep2: ACI and Traditional Networking

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This is an amazing episode of Engineers Unplugged, where two technologists from the community, Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000) and Colin Lynch (@ucsguru) discuss how ACI disrupts traditional...

March 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

With Cisco Cloud Management, FASTWEB Delivers New Value-Added Cloud Services

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Imagine that you head the leading telecommunications provider in Italy and you are watching traditional service and revenue streams struggle under intense competitive pressure. Customer retention is a major issue because the types of services required by your residential and business clients are changing. Clearly, you need to retain customers and do so by offering […]