Cisco completely supports the driving new types of efficiency in IT. Which is why, Cisco is a platinum sponsor and has been speaking at a series of Microsoft’s New Efficiency launch events that have been taking place in multiple cities …Read more.
Posted by Pamela Ferrill on October 31, 2009 at 07:15AM
If you want to get the most out of your curriculum, and be ready for the next generation of data centers, here is a nice itinerary for the 4 days at Oracle OpenworldMonday 10/12/2009 Time Session/ Demo Title Session ID …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on October 09, 2009 at 12:52AM
Liam Fraser, general manager, Marketing at Australia’s leading Information and Communications Technology provider, Alphawest, demonstrated the Cisco C-Series Chassis Unified Computing System for the first time at Networkers in Australia yesterday. See him outlined the demonstration that they put together …Read more.
Posted by Marc Musgrove on September 29, 2009 at 08:51AM
Hope you all have been keeping well! “Data Centers of the Future”, “DC 3.0”, and similar terms have been getting a lot of play lately. They remind me of the work Cisco has been doing to compare the benefits of …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on September 25, 2009 at 12:08PM
For more of the latest content from the Data Center teams, please check out the full version of the Data Center Newsletter. By Mark Weiner, Data Center Solutions Marketing Enterprises and public sector organizations alike continue to distribute their workers …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on September 21, 2009 at 08:42AM
We’ve recently embarked on an logical extension of the Advanced Services we’ve been providing for efficiency assessments for the last 24 months. Our Facilities Design Specification Service is uncovering some interesting new approaches to energy efficient data center design. Since …Read more.
Posted by Rob Aldrich on September 18, 2009 at 09:30PM
We’ve recently embarked on an logical extension of the Advanced Services we’ve been providing for efficiency assessments for the last 24 months. Our Facilities Design Specification Service is uncovering some interesting new approaches to energy efficient data center design. Since …Read more.
Posted by Rob Aldrich on September 18, 2009 at 08:26PM
Posted by Didier Rombaut on September 03, 2009 at 12:25AM
Day 1 - EMC Dave Graham, VMware Ernesto tey, Cisco Omara Sultan talk about the Data Center at VMworld 2009 based on Unified Computing Systems , Nexus and Cisco MDS Day 2 - EMC Chad Sakac and Dave Graham, VMware …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on September 01, 2009 at 11:35PM
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
Prise de la Bastille, by Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel “On 5 May 1789, (the King) Louis XVI convened the Estates-General to hear their grievances. The deputies of the Third Estate representing the common people (the two others were the Church and nobility) …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on July 14, 2009 at 09:29AM
If you suddenly had chest pains, you wouldn’t trust anybody to walk in from the street and fix your heart - you’d want the most sophisticated experts you could find. The same holds true for today’s ever-growing complex networks and …Read more.
Posted by Jeanne Dunn on June 15, 2009 at 11:35AM
We are hosting Fox Business News on Cisco’s campus all day today. Cisco CEO John Chambers talks with Fox Business News anchor Liz Claman (@lizclaman on Twitter) about being added to the Dow (his first broadcast interview after we were …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on June 10, 2009 at 10:35AM
One of Cisco’s internal mantras of late is the need to balance innovation with operational excellence. Our corporate CTO, Padmasree Warrior, laid out this argument as a part of a recent series predicting the future of collaboration. Essentially, a critical …Read more.
Posted by James Urquhart on June 09, 2009 at 10:36AM
For the past year, we at Cisco have been altering the way businesses think about and approach their data centers. But for a much longer period of time, those same businesses have faced growing challenges. The to-do list is long …Read more.
Posted by John McCool on June 02, 2009 at 02:29PM
Did a press interview this week and was asked what I thought of the recent HP and Microsoft expanded alliance in Unified Communications. As we prepare to host more than 1,500 partners, press, and analysts next week in Boston and …Read more.
Posted by Keith Goodwin on May 29, 2009 at 03:01PM
Good article in BusinessWeek on Cisco’s move into market adjacencies (Cisco’s Big Push into New Markets), but I want to be clear these moves into new markets make our channel partners more critical than ever. Together we will lead unified …Read more.
Posted by Keith Goodwin on May 21, 2009 at 12:27PM
I met at EMC World in Orlando, Chuck Hollis, EMC’s VP Global Marketing CTO; Parag Patel, VMware’s VP of Alliances, and Ed Bugnion, Cisco’s CTO for the Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit. Ed shared some insights on two important …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on May 21, 2009 at 05:29AM
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) just won “2009 Best of Interop Award” in the Data Center & Storage category at industry leading global technology event Interop 2009. Here is what judges have to say about UCS “It’s clear that Cisco …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on May 20, 2009 at 09:10AM
As a reminder, we announce our Q3 earnings this Wednesday after market close. More information on that here: http://www.cisco.com/go/investors Today, we highlight our “wins” and news of the previous quarter, including new products, new acquisitions and customers. We also produced …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on May 04, 2009 at 10:17AM
I put together this teaser video showing our approach to modeling highly efficient, highly dense data center zones (aka pods, clusters). Simply defined, a data center zone is a physical construct that is built to support any number of logical …Read more.
Posted by Rob Aldrich on April 24, 2009 at 10:25AM
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) just won “Best Data Center Innovation” award at BladeSystems Insight 2009 event. Details will be available here soon. BladeSystems Insight is an executive summit for data center blade server technologies, took place April 19-21, 2009 …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on April 22, 2009 at 08:20AM
On Monday, we celebrated with Intel their latest innovation in server processor, by participating in their Xeon Processor 5500 series launch event on their campus in Santa Clara. Glenn Keels, director of marketing for Cisco and David Lawler, vice president …Read more.
Posted by Pamela Ferrill on April 01, 2009 at 08:21AM
One of the aspects of the Cisco Unified Computing launch that I enjoyed was the opportunity to meet and work with a whole new group of really smart people. Out of that, I had the opportunity to record some podcasts …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 31, 2009 at 07:01PM
With this latest installment, Doug Alger discusses how the Cisco Unified Computing System will impact strategies for cabling, power and cooling. The conversation then moves onto a broader discussion of addressing power and cooling requirements in a age of dynamic …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 31, 2009 at 01:49PM
While I’ve seen a lot of kudos of our innovative Unified Computing System announcement in the last two weeks, I have been concerned by some of the “Cisco declaration of war” theme coverage. As someone here at Cisco, who has …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on March 27, 2009 at 09:05AM
So, to get a bit further into the management of the UCS in a heterogeneous environment, I went to the source and did a quick interview with Brian Schwarz, who is Product Manager focused on UCS Manager in the Server …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 23, 2009 at 03:16PM
As I have noted, virtualization introduces a couple of distinct challenges that directly impact its ultimately scalability as a solution. While virtualization offers a number of compelling benefits, it does introduce increased operational complexity. Because it is simple to add …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 23, 2009 at 02:57PM
One of the objectives for our blog is to add some new perspectives, so you will be seeing some new faces—some permanently and some guest bloggers. So, I am very pleased to get this effort kicked off with a guest …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 18, 2009 at 07:13PM
Now that the dust has settled and everyone has had a chance to digest the Unified Computing System announcements a bit, I see a couple of salient points—well, I see more, but only have time to blog about a couple …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 18, 2009 at 12:18PM
With our announcement of our Unified Computing System on Monday, I wanted to provide a little bit of the historical context of how Cisco got into the data center technology space: A lot of people say it started with the …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 18, 2009 at 08:01AM
Although we just announces the Cisco Unified Computing System yesterday, we already have it in production here at Cisco. We have a number of web, database and legal apps running on it, most of which you cannot access, except for …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 17, 2009 at 02:55PM
Yesterday I had a question get asked often enough that we felt it best to answer it on our blog: where should I deploy Unified Computing Systems? We see four main opportunities for unified computing in the near-term: 1) Greenfield …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 17, 2009 at 02:33PM
It has been hard sitting by and watching the rumor mill go into overdrive but we are finally ready to take the wraps off our innovative new system for the data center … Cisco’s Unified Computing System. Cisco talked previously …Read more.
Posted by Elizabeth McNichols on March 16, 2009 at 08:03AM
So, here we are. Today, we (officially) announce our Unified Computing system. There has been quite the buzz in the industry for awhile about Cisco introducing blade servers and what not, but see for yourself what we are…and what we …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on March 16, 2009 at 07:58AM
Sometimes we can’t get everything we want to say in a press release, like our recent Cisco Unified Computing announcement. This is a collection of a few points that seem to get lost in translation/distillation that we wanted to ensure …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 16, 2009 at 07:30AM
Friendfeed made this neat widget. Embedding it here so we can see what everyone’s reaction to the next 24 hours or so of tech-news will be like. I wonder if the folks at #SXSW will hear about it… …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 15, 2009 at 11:33PM
I sometimes wonder when someone copies some of the things I’m doing, whether I should be flattered that someone is inspired so much that they would do such a thing? Or I should be upset about it? Personally I don’t …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on March 15, 2009 at 08:54PM
As our Unified Computing System story unfolds tomorrow, I am sure there will be no shortage of expert commentary that says Cisco has gone off the reservation—in fact, I would venture that several of these pieces have already been written …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 15, 2009 at 05:31PM
Over the week-end I was reading this article on unified fabric and storage and in particular a sentence surprised me: The likelihood is that storage arrays will be linked to the Nexus in this scheme by Ethernet and not Fibre …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on March 12, 2009 at 05:59PM
I’ve been asked a lot about why would Cisco build a blade server recently. I don’t know where these rumors and speculation come from. But notwithstanding I thought I would write out the answers I usually give. 1) Cisco is …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 12, 2009 at 11:33AM
So, I am a big picture kinda guy, for better or for worse, and, while there are a number of really smart folks working on the plumbing behind cloud computing, from a go-to-market perspective, I have been wondering about what …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on February 20, 2009 at 01:04PM
There has been a lot of chatter about Cisco and unified computing and the data center/virtualization space…as well as what markets we are or are not entering. Our CTO, Padmasree Warrior, posted a blog on the topic of “unified computing” …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on February 02, 2009 at 02:30PM
As Padmasree stated in her blog post on Unified Computing, “Yes.” We are in the middle of a series of disruptions, both technological and economic. On the technology front there is an increasing shift to using virtualization technologies to extend …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on January 20, 2009 at 11:30AM
“I’ve discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start” – Bobby Clarke Lately, there has been a lot of speculation by the technorati that “something is going on over at Cisco!” I am sure you have all …Read more.
Posted by Padmasree Warrior on January 19, 2009 at 07:51PM
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