application acceleration

February 21, 2017

DATA CENTER

Managing Applications Across Hybrid Clouds

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Guest Author: Brad Casemore IDC Research Director, Datacenter Networks Whether resident in traditional datacenters or – increasingly – in the cloud, applications remain the means by which digital transformation is brought to fruition and business value is realized. Accordingly, management and orchestration of applications – and not just management of infrastructure resources – are critical to […]

July 5, 2016

CLOUD

Hybrid Cloud Delivers Best of Both Worlds

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When talking with customers, it is rare when I encounter one who is “all in” with private or “all-in” with public cloud.   Customers have come to realize that a single platform cannot deliver all the capabilities required by application, business and IT teams.  Developers want self-service and fast access to cloud infrastructure.  IT needs control […]

September 25, 2015

NETWORKING

iOS 9 – A Growth Hacking Opportunity Awaits

3 min read

The Economics of Network Downtime Infonetics Research recently released a study that claims businesses (just in North America alone) lose as much as $100 million a year due to network downtime. Let us dissect that into numbers you and I can relate to. On average, businesses suffer from 14 (CA Technologies) to 87 hours (Gartner) […]

August 7, 2014

DATA CENTER

Punch the Data Center Accelerator and Maintain Full Control

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Every organization needs more from their data centers, such as faster services and data analysis for real-time decision making.  The unprecedented expansion of data is a major driver of rapid data center transformation.  Consider these statistics: 90% of all data in the world was created in the last three years Data centers handled 214 exabytes […]

June 25, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Summary: Decoding UCS Invicta Part 1

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Storage 101 Less than a year ago, October 29th 2013, Cisco acquired Whiptail {http://newsroom.cisco.com/release/1279074}, a high performance scalable solid-state memory system. Shortly after its acquisition, the product lines were renamed UCS Invicta. The idea behind UCS Invicta and its market positioning is application acceleration. This is not to be considered a traditional storage but instead […]

June 25, 2014

DATA CENTER

Decoding UCS Invicta – Part 1

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Storage 101 Less than a year ago, October 29th 2013, Cisco acquired Whiptail , a high performance scalable solid-state memory system. Shortly after its acquisition, the product lines were renamed UCS Invicta. The idea behind UCS Invicta and its market positioning is application acceleration. This is not to be considered a traditional storage but instead […]

April 9, 2014

DATA CENTER

Open Source Acceleration for Applications

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In previous blogs I have described how organizations are maturing beyond provisioning of individual servers to provisioning of richer cloud-based application stacks.  Known as platform-as-a-service (PaaS), this capability takes cloud technology beyond infrastructure to automate the application life cycle.  PaaS allows developers and IT operations to collaborate and ensure that application stacks are consistent and […]

April 3, 2014

DATA CENTER

The IT Organization Relay Race

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“Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport… the thrill of victory… and the agony of defeat… the human drama of athletic competition,” voiced Jim McKay in the Wide World of Sports introduction. In two years, the world will tune in to Rio de Janeiro as the Brazil hosts the human drama […]

February 20, 2014

DATA CENTER

Being Application-Centric with UCS Invicta™ Series Solid State Systems

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Since Cisco announced its intent to acquire WHIPTAIL, many have taken to the Internet to speculate about how WHIPTAIL’s flash memory systems will fit into Cisco’s product line. The speculation ended with the launch of Cisco’s UCS Invicta™ Series Solid-State Systems. By introducing the capability and performance of flash memory into the UCS platform, which […]