Cisco’s recent announcement of the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition received quite a lot of buzz in the media and social web. So we got Gary Moore, Cisco’s SVP of Advanced Services, and Chuck Hollis, EMC’s Global Marketing CTO, to address …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on November 05, 2009 at 01:57PM
What would an announcement from Cisco be without VIDEO? To tell you a bit more about our Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition that we announced today with EMC and VMware, we went to Mark Fulghum, Cisco Vice President of Data …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on November 03, 2009 at 07:00PM
You probably didn’t miss the today announcement of the coalition between Cisco, EMC and VMware designed to address the challenges of pervasive virtualization and private cloud computing .We met Mark Fulgham , Vice-President Data Center Solutions to get his point …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on November 03, 2009 at 05:11PM
To say that it has been busy at Cisco these past several weeks would be an understatement. We’ve announced some acquisitions recently, we announce Q1’10 earnings tomorrow, and, in the “WAIT, there’s more!!” category, today, we announce our Virtual Computing …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on November 03, 2009 at 09:00AM
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
There still continues to be an immense amount of confusion around what exactly constitutes cloud computing. As an example, over the last few days, there has been a spirited debate whether the Sidekick service Microsoft/Danger offered was a cloud-based service …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on October 13, 2009 at 10:49AM
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
Recently VMWare announced its intent to acquire the privately-held Java tools vendor SpringSource. Perhaps it’s one more indication that applications and workloads will increasingly rely on a virtualized (and eventually a cloud-based) infrastructure. For service providers, this represents yet another …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on August 28, 2009 at 05:00AM
Since my last blog post on Intercloud, I have been rather busy working on related topics such as SLA instantiation, registry functions, security, and resiliency. However, I did attend the IETF 75 meeting held in Stockholm, Sweden. The Internet Society’s …Read more.
Posted by Monique Morrow on August 25, 2009 at 12:21PM
TRIVIA: The first video MTV ever played was The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”, which was sadly all too prescient as evidenced by the subsequent popularity of Milli Vanilli. So, a good friend of mine recently pondered if virtualization …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on August 20, 2009 at 12:11PM
Dylan Morison, Cisco’s Data Centre Lead for Australia and New Zealand, participated in a series of CIO Roundtables with Dimension Data, EMC and VMware last week and in this video shares some of the common themes discussed. At a special …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on August 07, 2009 at 01:55AM
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
I came across this article published by CIOZone on July 20, 2009 - “IT Spending Forecasts Improve, Cisco Popular”; and obviously, am pleased by the positive results around Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS). An impressive number - “77 percent of …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on July 24, 2009 at 10:40AM
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
I had the opportunity last week to deliver a keynote at Cisco Live in front of ten thousand people at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and another three thousand who joined virtually. I extend my sincere thanks to all …Read more.
Posted by Padmasree Warrior on July 08, 2009 at 11:01AM
I’ve just finished watching the CiscoLive keynote webcast of Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers from San Francisco. All this talk of video, collaboration and virtualization makes much sense to me as I’m a whopping 45 miles away in San …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on June 30, 2009 at 11:42AM
If you are looking for a real example of using WAN optimization and Windows Server 2008 together to consolidate and centralize branch IT, here’s a great article just published on Microsoft’s website. Based in Reading, United Kingdom with 5,000 employees …Read more.
Posted by Feng Meng on June 24, 2009 at 03:19PM
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
Following my presentation at the Futurenet Conference in Boston on May 6, 2009 entitled, “Disruption: Emerging Technologies and Business Models,” I flew to India to meet with customers and colleagues in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. The atmosphere was rather …Read more.
Posted by Monique Morrow on June 05, 2009 at 09:34AM
On day two of Partner Summit 2009 in Boston, I sat down for a chat with Cisco’s CTO Padmasree Warrior. During our discussion, she revealed her insights on the future of IT and collaboration. And, she makes one thing clear: …Read more.
Posted by Alexandra Krasne on June 04, 2009 at 04:21AM
Hear a snapshot of the keynote Kevin Bloch, Cisco CTO of Australia and New Zealand, presented at EMC Inform in Sydney filmed on the go on a Flip Video. Not only will you hear about the value our partnership with …Read more.
Posted by Linda Horiuchi on June 02, 2009 at 04:11PM
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
Perhaps you’re wondering where the demand for cloud services will come from, what will be the key market drivers, and how will service provider business models fit into the expanding view of the overall IT infrastructure virtualization market landscape. A …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on May 22, 2009 at 10:18AM
We’re now entering an exciting period of creativity within the broadband sector. Facilities-based services providers have a unique opportunity to apply their inherent advantage – yes, superior infrastructure matters. It’s a key deciding factor in sustainable growth. Most industry analysts …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on May 20, 2009 at 07:47AM
In the near term, even without the current global economic challenges, it’s apparent that 2009 was already going to be a year of significant transition for most broadband service providers. A recent assessment from Mike Cansfield at Forrester Research describes …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on May 15, 2009 at 09:04AM
Cisco will be present at EMC World 2009 and on the web at “Live at EMC World” Bill Marozas ,Cisco Director Storage Networking, took this opportunity to ask Chuck Hollis, Vice -President Global Marketing, and well known EMC blogger tough …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on May 15, 2009 at 12:40AM
When the first automobiles were conceived and designed, it was difficult for some people to take a forward-looking view of this innovation. The term “horseless-carriage” was an attempt to describe this new mode of transportation from a historical perspective. Ready …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on May 14, 2009 at 11:52AM
When the first automobiles were conceived and designed, it was difficult for some people to take a forward-looking view of this innovation. The term “horseless-carriage” was an attempt to describe this new mode of transportation from a historical perspective. Ready …Read more.
Posted by Simon Aspinall on May 13, 2009 at 08:21AM
Cisco Unified Service Delivery combines the power of the data center with the power of the network to transform service delivery and build the foundation for cloud services. Learn more by viewing the video or slides below. Cisco Unified Service …Read more.
Posted by Suraj Shetty on May 11, 2009 at 08:53PM
With our Cisco Nexus 1000V beta wrapping up, I had a chance to ping a couple of our customers about their experiences testing the Cisco Nexus 1000V/vSphere combo in their environments. The excerpt is from Julien Mousqueton, who is the …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on May 11, 2009 at 09:42AM
Many industry pundits have missed the proverbial forest for the trees this week. IBM’s recent announcement in which they detail the broadening of their joint Brocade/Foundry GTM strategy has been misinterpreted as an anti-Cisco strategy. In reality, it’s an anti-HP …Read more.
Posted by Bill Marozas on April 29, 2009 at 10:28AM
While you regularly hear from Cisco IT in this space, courtesy of Sidney and Doug, I thought you folks might want to get some other perspectives. Here is a series of podcasts from Intel IT where they share their thoughts …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on April 21, 2009 at 10:44PM
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
Virtualization is a new tool in the data center efficiency tool box. When used properly, the virtualization tool rewards the data center owner with reduced costs and efficient data center operations. If the tool is used improperly, unanticipated consequences can …Read more.
Posted by Paul Marcoux on March 31, 2009 at 03:07PM
Here is a great technical session presented by Guy Brunsdon of VMware. It starts with a good foundation on networking in a virtual machine environment, followed by a discussion of the virtual distributed switch and the Cisco Nexus 1000V. For …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 27, 2009 at 03:06PM
I look into my daughter’s crayon box and, besides fond memories, I find many shades and hues of the color Green. I look at networks and networking devices (That’s what I do!) and, once again, see many shades and hues …Read more.
Posted by Mark Leary on March 26, 2009 at 09:58AM
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
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
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
The Virtual Machine is like Neo in The Matrix. The IT world shapes itself around the VM. Remember the ‘Classic 3-Tier network architecture with Layer-2 and Layer-3 segmentation, a standard address hierarchy, and consistent policies????, Burn it. Throw it away. …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 14, 2009 at 12:59PM
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
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
So, just coming from Paris, where I attended the MPLS and Ethernet World Congress 2009 last week. I heard familiar topics addressing service scaling properties, quality of service, application-awareness, CAPEX efficiencies, OPEX and reduction generating revenue. What was unique however, …Read more.
Posted by Monique Morrow on February 17, 2009 at 04:54PM
I had an interesting Twitter conversation with Robert Scoble over the past week or so. Robert asserts that, “you must have missed the financial crisis. This is forcing TONS of companies to get rid of data centers or minimize them.” …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on February 03, 2009 at 02:10PM
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
A very worthy recent posting by the Sierra Club offered a Top Ten list of ways to work greener. It can be found at http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/2007/03/10_ways_to_go_g.html. In reading this Sierra Club entry, I was reminded of a presentation I first did …Read more.
Posted by Mark Leary on January 23, 2009 at 02:15PM
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
Branch IT consolidation is usually interpreted as moving all branch servers to the data center, or at least as many as possibly makes sense. But what about critical branch services that maintain business continuity and performance for branch workers? The …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on January 13, 2009 at 12:51PM
This morning, a colleague told me that her motto for this year is “time to shine in ‘09.” I told her that could connote that she wasn’t shining in previous years. She said maybe that was true. Cisco’s blogging efforts …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on January 05, 2009 at 02:28PM
In one of my previous blogs, I’d posted that we’re providing an AXP “Virtual blade” based on the VMware player. Frankly, this has been available on our developer website for sometime, we probably hadn’t publicized it enough - so I …Read more.
Posted by Shashi Kiran on December 05, 2008 at 03:21PM
This is part III in the series of technical foundation posts leading up to our December 11 TechChat “Networks That Know You: Cisco Identity-Based Networking Services”. Have you ever left the house and forgotten to lock the front door? It …Read more.
Posted by Dannette Veale on December 02, 2008 at 01:00PM
Microsoft and Cisco have released the public announcement released the public announcement on their joint branch IT solution, Windows Server on WAAS (WoW). As many readers have seen, this solution combines Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (Server Core branch version) with …Read more.
Posted by Mark Weiner on October 01, 2008 at 03:18PM
John McCool, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Center, Switching and Services Group, provides a snapshot of what he will be discussing at the Financial Analyst Conference. Read more about today’s announcement of the Nexus 1000V, a virtual networking …Read more.
Posted by Ken Lotich on September 16, 2008 at 02:01PM
In preparation for the Financial Analyst Conference, I sat down with several executives before the event to get a feel for what’s on their mind heading into the conference, and more broadly, what they are looking forward to in FY09. …Read more.
Posted by Ken Lotich on September 16, 2008 at 09:56AM
I was interested to note that Denise Dubie, senior editor of Network World recently published an article in which she acknowledges Cisco’s VFrame provisioning appliance as a viable product offering in the emerging Data Center automation market. Read her article …Read more.
Posted by Bill Erdman on June 20, 2008 at 03:38PM
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