Cisco UCS: Powering Applications at Every Scale
If you follow the news in the world of data center you probably noticed a small announcement from Cisco last week regarding...
Todd Brannon
Product Management Senior Director, Cisco Compute
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The Bases are Loaded for a Cisco UCS Grand Slam
“The innovation pipeline is very strong, and you can expect to see announcements in the fall that will continue to accelerate our momentum with UCS and add to our competitive advantage.” Those are comments from Cisco’s earnings call last week, and on September 4th I hope you will join us for the unveiling of the […]
Cisco UCS Five Years On: The Right Solution at the Right Time
I knew we were on to something good when a customer told me “This is so easy, it’s CTO proof.” Early in the business, I was talking to a front-line server admin who had found that Cisco UCS made server deployment so reliable, automated and simple that he was convinced even his CTO could pull […]
New UCS Servers deliver innovative scaling options and record-breaking power
This week we’re announcing new systems at the upper end of the UCS server product line: some heavy-duty iron for heavy-duty times. These are important new tools for our UCS customers: the digital age is accelerating, IT needs more horsepower to keep up, and there is a lot at stake. http://www.slideshare.net/Ciscodatacenter/cisco-ucs-servers-with-intel-xeon-processor-e7-v2-deliver-unmatched-customer-benefits Consider this: less than 10 years ago, […]
WHIPTAIL + UCS = peanut butter + chocolate
Back on September 10th, Cisco announced the intent to acquire WHIPTAIL and today I’m excited to report to our Data Center blog readers that the acquisition has been completed! Paul Perez has laid out Cisco’s vision for this technology and the crucial role that solid-state memory plays in the next evolution of UCS. If […]
Tick Tock Goes the Server Clock
Ivy Bridge comes to UCS! As Paul Perez reminds us in his evolutionary metaphor for our industry, time marches on, and today brings another tick of the clock. Many of you may be familiar with the development cadence that Intel maintains to carry forward the exponential burden of Moore’s law. By way of explanation for […]
Introducing Cisco SingleConnect Technology
When customers talk about why they like UCS they often sum it up in very concise terms. “It makes things a lot easier,” is a common refrain. But if you ask a Cisco technologist what’s good about UCS you’ll get a much more lengthy reply, probably more than you wanted to hear. 🙂 That’s because […]
Cisco UCS at EMC World 2013
We handed out a stack of these buttons for the Cisco booth staff to wear this year and that sums up my favorite part of EMC World: it’s an infrastructure party. This is a place where you’re going to talk with people at the heart of the data center and IT, and the conversations all […]
Delivering the Madness: remember to thank your servers and the network
March Madness is here and in full effect. If you’re reading this post you probably aren’t paying close enough attention to the results pouring in from the round of 64. Today and tomorrow will make or break your bracket! Take appropriate action. As soon as I hit “publish” on this post I promise you that […]