Todd Brannon
Product Management Senior Director, Cisco Compute
Articles
Assuring Hypercritical Data with Veeam Availability Solution on Cisco HyperFlex
2 min read
Did you know that by 2025, IDC estimates that nearly 20% of data in the global datasphere will be critical to our daily lives and nearly 10% of that data...
Building the Platform for Intuitive Infrastructure
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Next week at CiscoLive we will begin to introduce the next evolutionary step for Unified Computing. UCS was conceived a decade ago with the ambition to tackle some of the...
IT Infrastructure at the Speed of FlashStack
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Rapidly changing business conditions, global competition, and digital transformation projects have resulted in an increased reliance on IT to deliver positive business outcomes. Yet, many businesses continue to struggle with delivering the applications and services at the rate and speed required to meet the needs. The culprit? Inflexible IT that cannot support the scale and […]
The Power of Partnerships: powering Cisco HyperFlex
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Last week at Cisco Partner Summit 2016 we celebrated the introduction Cisco HyperFlex Systems. More importantly, we gathered in San Diego to celebrate the Power of Partnerships....
Composable Infrastructure Part 4: Infrastructure as Code
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How do you treat hardware like software? That question sounds like a contradiction, but we’ve been helping customers answer this question for the past six years with Cisco UCS. When you abstract all configuration and identity of hardware and transform it into software defined infrastructure (SDI), or better yet, policy driven infrastructure, you’re moving down the path of managing the […]
Composable Infrastructure, Part 3: “What is it??”
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“Did you say compostable infrastructure? That means using a biodegradable cardboard chassis that can go in the compost bin, right?” 🙂 This conversation is more common than you think right now as people are introduced to this for the first time. So what exactly does composable infrastructure mean? Perhaps the best description I’ve heard […]
Composable Infrastructure, Part 2: What are the Benefits?
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We recently sat down with IDC analyst, Jed Scaramella, to talk about an interesting and accelerating trend in data center technology: composable infrastructure. With UCS M-Series servers, Cisco has taken an important step forward in this space. To help frame things up, we asked Jed for his take on the market drivers and customer needs […]
All about that BaaS: Cisco UCS and CommVault Simpana
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With Richard Jacobick Cisco and CommVault have teamed up on a solution aimed squarely at contemporary data protection challenges. Data is the lifeblood of the enterprise, yet the playbook for how you preserve, protect and provide access to data may have been assembled years ago… and a lot has changed in those years. Consider the transformations around […]
Cisco UCS and Intel Xeon E7v3: bringing the horsepower you need for analytics
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I’ve heard it said that CIO’s like their ERP systems the same way they like their cars: big, fast and German. Setting nationalities aside, IT pros craving more horsepower for something like SAP HANA need look no further than our UCS B460 M4 and C460 M4 servers, which now supports Intel’s new Xeon E7v3 processor family. You […]