Bill Shields

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Cisco, Cloudera, and Nvidia have partnered to deliver hybrid and/or private cloud solution that meets all the above requirements. The architecture has the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) software running on Cisco Data Intelligence Platform (CDIP) with Nvidia GPUs.

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This is the second blog on Cisco UCS X-Series as part of a converged infrastructure solution with 100G Unified Fabric. This week it’s FlashStack. What is FlashStack? The FlashStack solution is a validated, converged infrastructure developed jointly by Cisco and Pure Storage first announced in 2014. The solution offers a predesigned architecture that incorporates computing […]

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Earlier this year Cisco and NetApp introduced FlexPod XCS bringing visibility, automation, flexible consumption, and hybrid cloud operations to FlexPod. FlexPod XCS is a suite of capabilities designed to simplify operations and accelerate the delivery of modern apps. FlexPod XCS is fully managed by Cisco Intersight and provides five key capabilities.

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Only Cisco unifies networking and computing in a way that works for both server and network admins. We provide scale, aggregation, and manageability in a way that simplifies operations for IT. Unified Fabric provides both CapEx and OpEx benefits that help your company.

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Today, only Cisco UCS X-Series supports 100Gbps end-to-end in a modular server form factor.In UCS X-Series, all the networking components are 100 Gbps.  Deploying a 100G solution not only makes bandwidth intensive applications perform well but gives you flexibility in how that bandwidth is used.

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In the first blog of this series, we saw just how easy it was to deploy a X210c Compute Node with Cisco Intersight. Last week, we showed how X-Series can deliver outstanding performance for Oracle databases. Today, we are going to go a bit deeper on configuration and show how easy it is to get great performance with very little effort.

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Oracle is the choice for many enterprise database applications. See and read why Cisco UCS X-Series is an ideal choice for your Oracle workloads.

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Use Ansible to stand up a cluster and support your on-prem Kubernetes environment on X-Series. Our Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) help you design, deploy, and extend new technologies by offering best practices along with server, storage, and network configurations.

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The integration of Cisco Intersight and Ansible by Red Hat provides a software-defined approach to the management of the entire hardware and software stack. This solution delivers some significant benefits.