Articles

May 16, 2014

DATA CENTER

Announcing Cisco UCS Director 5.0 – with Support for Application Centric Infrastructure

4 min read

It’s that time of year again. Next week in San Francisco, an estimated 22,000 customers and partners will convene for our annual Cisco Live user conference in the...

January 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Introducing Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.0

5 min read

I’m at our annual Cisco Live Europe conference in Milan this week – it’s a great event and a great opportunity to introduce new innovations to customers.  In fact, today we announced the latest release of our cloud management software solution: Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (Cisco IAC) version 4.0. I recently wrote about the […]

November 26, 2013

DATA CENTER

New Independent Analyst Research on Private Cloud Software Solutions

2 min read

In previous blog posts, my colleagues have written about Cisco’s leadership in cloud infrastructure (#1) and cloud professional services (#1). And as I’ve blogged about in the past, we have a growing portfolio of cloud and infrastructure management software solutions. Now Cisco is getting recognition as a strong performer in cloud software innovation and strategy. […]

December 11, 2012

DATA CENTER

Cloupia + Cisco Unified Management = Better Together

4 min read

Yesterday, Cisco announced that we closed on the acquisition of Cloupia.  Cloupia is now officially part of Cisco and a very exciting new addition to our Unified Management software portfolio. Ever since the news broke about Cisco’s intent to acquire Cloupia, I’ve been asked how this fits with our other data center and cloud management software products.  In short, Cloupia’s […]