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Rodrigo Flores

No longer with Cisco.

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April 11, 2013

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Case Study: Cisco’s Private Cloud and Lessons Learned

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This is my talk I gave last week at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara. One slide that did not make the deck are the top reasons why people struggle with building private clouds Management and operations process. Culture Funding Model Service description and self-service interface As my deck says, “I got 99 problems, but the […]

April 10, 2013

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Self-Service Arrives to Workload Automation. Have Your Users Paint Your Fence.

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Self-Service Arrives to Workload Automation. Have Your Users Paint Your Fence. It’s close to 11 p.m. on the last day of the quarter. And I.T. gets an urgent request to post-pone a closing of the books process because there’s a large order stuck in the CRM system.  This means that it won’t hit the books […]

February 19, 2013

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Tidal Enterprise Scheduler, now with native support for MapR HDFS

Now available for existing customers of Tidal Enterprise scheduler with native support for MapR. Why is this big news? It means that workloads can now move between existing FTP, S3 buckets, ERP, Business intelligence and Hadoop HDFS to MapR’s version of HDFS. From Allan’s blog: A few months ago, Cisco announced the release of Tidal […]

January 22, 2013

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Duct Tape for Cloud: Integration Features of Cisco Process Orchestrator and IA for Cloud

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The Cisco Process Orchestrator has very rich integration capabilities, yet we often hear the question, “Does it integrate with…” or “Does it work with” [insert product]. The Cisco Process Orchestrator is a primary component in the Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud management solution. The fact is that in modern environments with modern orchestrators the answer […]

November 28, 2012

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Cisco IAC Availability, Scalability, and Geographic Distribution

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When building a cloud, scale it out. Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud architecture and topology options enable scalability, availability, and geographic distribution. This white paper discusses several options, their strengths and uses, and the technical details underlying these options.” Cisco IAC Availability, Scalability, and Geographic Distribution White Paper is available in the Cisco support community […]