F5 Agility 2016 – Next Stop Chicago
Only a few weeks remain for the Fall season to officially set in, and it’s still quite hot in Chicago. The fast approaching F5 Agility event is further adding...
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Network Automation with ACI – a NetOps Example
I’d like to talk about Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), and focus on one of the most important steps that Data Center IT teams take on the journey to achieve...
Cisco Simplifies Business Transformation
There has been a revolutionary change in the conversation over IT’s role within your business. Once centered on reducing costs, today’s conversation centers on how IT can move with greater speed and flexibility. Why the change? The answer is
Bringing Consistent Automation Across Cisco Nexus and Catalyst with Ansible 2.1
We had a busy week around the middle of July with ChefConf 2016 (Austin, Texas July 11 – 13) and Cisco Live US (Las Vegas, Nevada July 10 – 14). Now we’re moving on to AnsibleFest July 28 San Francisco where Cisco is a Gold sponsor as well as a
Elevating the Role of SDN in the Cloud with Cisco ACI 2.0
ACI 2.0 – released earlier this month – delivers strong new SDN and Cloud capabilities. These enable Scale, Cloud Automation, Security & Analytics, as well as Optimized Operations. Yeah, I know that sounds kinda
Up Close with Cisco CloudCenter (CliQr)
Cloud platforms are increasingly a viable option for a growing set of enterprise applications and workloads. Application teams are uncompromising in their desire to build and deploy new applications into public cloud environments that deliver speed
Micro Segmentation and Cisco ACI – From Theory to Practice Part III
This is Part III in a four part series of blogs. This is the third of a series of blogs dedicated to explaining how to use ACI Micro Segmentation capabilities. In the first blog we described how to use ACI micro segmentation to implement a 2-tier
Commvault Data Protection for HyperConverged Environments
You might remember a blog from our own Todd Brannon called “All about that BaaS” which outlined a jointly tested reference architecture for “Backup as a Service” with Commvault software. That engagement advanced Commvault to preferred solution partner
There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be 1st – Cisco, IBM Speed Up Big Data Performance
Being first definitely feels good! Once again our Cisco UCS compute family showcases its leadership capabilities with two new TPCx-HS benchmarks. Cisco was the first vendor to publish TPCx-HS (The industry’s first Big Data benchmark standard for