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FlexPod with Infrastructure Automation: Business Agility Through Simplicity
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Over the last several years Cisco UCS integrated infrastructure has been at the center of combining together technologies from industry leaders into integrated systems that dramatically reduce complexity while improving operational efficiencies and time to deployment. FlexPod is a leader in the integrated infrastructure segment, with greater than 7000 customers in more than 100 countries. […]
NetApp Insight 2015 Recap: FlexPod Delivers Application Optimization and Simplified IT
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At NetApp Insight in Las Vegas, Cisco and NetApp teams came together to celebrate five years of integrated infrastructure leadership with FlexPod. We also introduced new FlexPod capabilities and solutions designed to simplify IT and enhance application performance. In the video below, Jim McHugh, VP of Cisco UCS and Data Center Solutions Marketing, and Lee […]
Learn about the latest FlexPod Solutions at NetApp Insight 2015
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NetApp’s annual technology conference takes place in Las Vegas next week and Cisco is excited to again be a diamond level sponsor for the event. Together, we will highlight Cisco and NetApp’s technology alignment, leadership, partnership and raise awareness of FlexPod solutions and momentum. Cisco’s presence at the event will revolve around Cisco and NetApp’s […]
Unleashing UCS Integrated Infrastructure
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A new edition of UnleashingIT showcases a variety of companies that are taking advantage of Cisco UCS integrated infrastructure based solutions to support dramatic growth, expand services, increase uptime, and respond to changing business demands faster. Cisco, works with industry-leading and emerging storage technology partners, to offer a tremendous choice of integrated infrastructure solutions based […]
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure at EMC World 2015
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At EMC World 2015, we handed out these “Cisco Go UCS” hats to attendees that stopped by the Cisco booth. I love to hear the stories of customers that are using our Cisco UCS integrated infrastructure based solutions to accelerate deployment of IT infrastructure and implement our latest innovations. This year our presence at EMC World focused […]
FlexPod Adds UCS Director Management, Database, and Hybrid Cloud Solutions
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Last quarter, we featured solutions with Microsoft and edge computing solutions with UCS Mini. This quarter, FlexPod built on UCS integrated infrastructure and NetApp storage continues its leadership with new designs for data center management, database platforms, and hybrid cloud deployments. Recently released solutions include: FlexPod Datacenter with UCS Director FlexPod Datacenter with Nexus 9k and ACI […]
Now is the Time to Migrate from RISC/UNIX to Cisco UCS
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Why is now the time to migrated from your proprietary RISC/UNIX platform to Cisco UCS with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. There are several reasons: Technology transitions are driving new demands on data center and IT infrastructure. These new applications and computing models have standardized on x86 architecture while aging RISC/UNIX infrastructure doesn’t provide the performance […]
Vblock Management Featuring Cisco UCS Director
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At Cisco Live Milan, Jim McHugh, Vice President, Cisco UCS and Data Center Solutions Marketing and John Lockyer, Chief Technology Officer at VCE, give an overview of Vblock Systems management featuring VCE Vision and Cisco UCS Director. Watch the video and learn how managing converged infrastructure holistically can accelerate innovation through automation and orchestration resulting […]
FlexPod Introduces Latest Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure and NetApp Innovations
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FlexPod had a great 2014 and continues to be a leader in the integrated infrastructure market. The collaboration and execution between the Cisco and NetApp teams have delivered the following results: Greater than 5,000 customers across 100 countries More than $3B in revenue 80+ validated designs 1100+ Partners Customer needs continue to change, Cisco and […]
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Extends Market Leadership
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Last month, Cisco added the VersaStack solution to our integrated systems portfolio. The new VersaStack solution leverages Cisco UCS integrated infrastructure with IBM Storwise V7000 storage. Cisco continues to partner with both leading and emerging storage technology vendors to deliver solutions built on Cisco UCS integrated infrastructure. Customers want choice. By choice, we mean that […]
Together We Can: Cisco at NetApp Insight 2014
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Next week in Las Vegas, NetApp’s annual conference devoted to the technology-curious storage and data management professional, including system engineers, professional services consultants, channel partners, and for the first time ever, NetApp customers. Cisco is an diamond level sponsor of the event and will have a very strong presence highlighting FlexPod, based on Cisco UCS integrated […]
FlexPod is Cisco ACI Enabled
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In today’s data centers, organizations want to further accelerate application deployment, resulting in even greater demands on the IT infrastructure. The need for speed and efficiency is paramount and keeping pace with dynamic priorities requires infrastructure flexibility, agility, and automation. Hence, leveraging an application-centric operational model is now essential. FlexPod has become a leader in integrated […]
FlexPod, Based on UCS Integrated Infrastructure, is a Leader in Integrated Infrastructure
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The month of June was very exciting for FlexPod. On June 16th, Gartner released their 2014 Magic Quadrant for integrated infrastructure with FlexPod positioned in the leaders quadrant. On June 25th, Cisco and NetApp announced FlexPod has generated $3 billion in joint sales since its launch in 2010 with more than 4100 customers. The very next […]
Cisco’s Commitment to Openness and Interoperability will be on Display at Red Hat Summit 2014
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Change is good. After a successful run of four years in Boston, Red Hat Summit moves to San Francisco this year from April 14-17. Red Hat Summit has...
FlexPod at Cisco Live Milan 2014 Recap
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A little over a month ago, I had the pleasure of attending Cisco Live in Milan, Italy. It was a busy week doing FlexPod demos and meeting with our customers and technology partners. This provided me the opportunity to grab some video time with Michael Harding, FlexPod Marketing Manager at NetApp, to discuss our recent […]
OpenStack@Cisco Live – Milan
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At Cisco, we continue to see OpenStack’s community-driven process and standards based approach act as a catalyst in the development and transition to an open source cloud platform. This approach leverages a robust ecosystem of industry-leading technologies and avoids lock-in to a single vendor or platform. As the ecosystem grows so does the pace of […]
Cisco Introduces New Solutions for EMC VSPEX
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The Cisco and EMC teams have been working closely to expand the VSPEX solution portfolio to accelerate growth and opportunity. In addition to the new CVDs, we released a new application white paper and management design guide for VSPEX. Wait, there’s more. We also recently published new Cisco marketing collateral for VSPEX and a customer case […]
Krones Group dramatically improves IT efficiency by migrating from RISC-based architecture to Cisco UCS
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An Increasing amount of organizations continue to shift their view of IT infrastructure as being a cost center to an enabler of business growth. Hence, businesses are looking for infrastructure that can deliver agility and availability while enabling diverse applications to coexist in the same infrastructure. The Krones group, headquartered in Neutraubling, Germany, helps makes […]
Cisco UCS at Red Hat Summit 2013
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The open source community converged in Boston this week for the Red Hat Summit. A key theme for this year’s event was OpenStack. Cisco presence included an executive keynote, speaking session, and demonstrations of our product and solutions in the partner pavilion. Ram Appalaraju, VP of Technology and Product Marketing and Solutions Engineering, delivered a […]
Cisco Solutions for EMC VSPEX
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IT organizations have traditionally designed and built virtualized infrastructures by selecting best of breed components and piecing them together. What’s great about the build your own strategy is it’s incredibly flexible. The challenge is it’s not that easy. It’s just not simple. It takes time, requires people and expertise that you may or may not […]
IDC White Paper: Converged Systems Support Datacenter Transformation
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A new white paper from IDC discusses how converged infrastructure solutions from Cisco and EMC, through VCE, can enable IT organizations to deploy a highly virtualized, highly efficient computing infrastructure. For those new to the converged systems topic, VCE was formed by Cisco and EMC to build converged infrastructure systems that dramatically reduce the complexity […]
Calculate Savings Instantly with our RISC/UNIX to Cisco UCS Calculator
IT managers are looking for proof that new solutions deliver significant benefits and superior value before they commit to a migration. A TCO/ROI calculator is a great tool to help make those infrastructure planning decisions. The new Cisco UCS RISC/UNIX Migration TCO and ROI Calculator provides a quick, simple tool for IT managers to understand […]
Modernize Your IT Infrastructure by Migrating to Cisco UCS and NetApp Storage
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Many organizations continue to struggle with the pace, complexity, and changing demands of a data-driven world. Hence, it’s not a big surprise that agility, flexibility, and cost efficiency continue to be important themes in the data center. These demands and needs may be acting as a forcing function for organizations to modernize aging, complex, and […]
Gartner Report Highlights Benefits of Server Virtualization
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Every IT manager is tasked with gaining efficiencies across the data center and IT infrastructure while providing the business agility to react to changing demands, ultimately moving the data center from a cost center to a competitive weapon. IT organizations are looking for virtualization technologies to increase utilization levels, improve staff efficiency while reducing space, […]
College Migrates from SPARC to Cisco UCS
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When it comes to their IT infrastructures, academic institution IT teams have a lot in common with IT departments in the business world. Both need to offer their customers the flexibility to access applications and resources at anytime, anyplace, and on any device. They also need to provide these services with limited budgets and administrative […]
Financial Services Firm Migrates from RISC/UNIX to Cisco UCS
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We continue to see a growing number of customers migrating from RISC/UNIX platforms to Cisco UCS. Costs associated with purchasing, and maintaining RISC/UNIX servers continue to be a major customer pain point. The ability to scale faster, respond to customers quicker, and easily roll out new services to address new opportunities are also requirements. The […]
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