On my previous blog post “What exactly is a Nexus 4000?” there were many questions/comments around OEM blade server vendors and details of Nexus 4000 Series Blade Switches . Today, IBM announced the details of the Cisco Nexus 4000 blade switch for their …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on October 20, 2009 at 05:27PM
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
OK so first of all, I’d like to thank all the folks here who took time to post extremely useful comments on my previous blog “ So What Exactly is a Nexus 4000?” . I’m glad to see that there is …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on October 08, 2009 at 09:57AM
So Cisco has been on the forefront in leading Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) in ANSI standard bodies along with Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards for lossless Ethernet in IEEE. We were the also the first company to productize a …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on September 28, 2009 at 09:07AM
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
Join us for a live Internet TV broadcast featuring our special guest Derek Masseth, Senior Director for Infrastructure Services at the University of Arizona, who will share his experience how the university united its data center using Fibre Channel over …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on September 25, 2009 at 09:17AM
Interesting analogy I saw today in story from Byte & Switch blogger Frank Berry. He used the analogy of SUVs and their rather spartan initial models (can you say “early Ford Bronco” or “Cash for Clunkers”?) to the recent unified …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on September 01, 2009 at 02:30PM
So, we continue to see traction with customers for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) because IT organizations are beginning to understand both immediate benefits through reduced capital and operating costs (a big incentive in today’s economy) and the longer term …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on July 21, 2009 at 09:23PM
So, after a lot of hard work by a number of individual across the industry, I am happy to say that on June 3rd, the FC-BB-5 working group of T11 has completed its work and unanimously approved a final standard …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 04, 2009 at 06:25PM
Intel is a critical Cisco partner, but also a large and innovative manufacturing customer. Diane Bryant, CIO Intel, was on Cisco booth at EMC World, in Orlando Florida, to witness the large number of visitors interested by our Unified Computing …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on May 22, 2009 at 07:49AM
Part 1 of a series of four interviews with Cisco and EMC experts in Storage Networking. Bill Marozas, Cisco Data Center Solutions Marketing, talks about the Cisco MDS 9000 , and what customers are asking him at EMC World this …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on May 20, 2009 at 10:21AM
So, before we dig into CEE (Convergence Enhanced Ethernet), I have a quick quiz for you: take a look at the two pictures below and make note of the differences: Ready? OK, back to the topic at hand…. So, one …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on April 16, 2009 at 01:26PM
In the last post I talked about the importance of designing a platform vs. a box and the benefits associated to that choice. Now I’d like to spend some time going into more of the architectural details that make the …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on April 03, 2009 at 01:13AM
When discussing unified fabric with customers these days, the conversation is increasingly shifting from “why?” to “how?” Here are some of the slides I will use to brief customers on the “how”. The important thing to note is that the …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 31, 2009 at 01:24AM
Designing a (successful) product is always tricky; first of all, you need to properly define and wisely select your product requirements. But whatever market segment you are in, your product requirements will change over time. No matter how good you …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on March 16, 2009 at 01:46AM
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
Since there are folks out there that would have you believe we will see cold fusion before we see a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard, I thought it would be a good time to provide an update, especially because …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 12, 2009 at 11:52PM
As I read about forced industry consolidations and our competitor’s ambitious plans to catch up with Cisco to deliver Unified Fabric years from now, it makes me realize the power and effect of Cisco Unified Fabric vision. While these companies …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on March 12, 2009 at 10:43PM
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
It may seem overly simple but generally speaking consolidation can be a great way to reduce total energy use in your data center over a given period. The implications of implementing unified fabrics from our Cisco Nexus line is no …Read more.
Posted by Rob Aldrich on March 11, 2009 at 10:21AM
I have to admit that its gratifying to see our competitors validate decisions we made a couple of years ago with regards to the need for a unified fabric in the data center. After dismissing FCoE or worse, completely missing …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 06, 2009 at 12:31AM
So, as I have mentioned before and chatted about with Sidney, we have the Nexus 5000 and unified fabric in production in our Mountain View data center. We are running the News@Cisco website over it as well as some back-office …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on January 27, 2009 at 09:51AM
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
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