April 20, 2022

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Unified Fabric now 100Gb end-to-end for X-Series

3 min read

Since 2009, Cisco UCS Unified Fabric—with data, storage, and management traffic on a single cable—has been a key differentiator for UCS servers in the industry. This simplified server and networking infrastructure now becomes a low latency, end-to-end solution for your applications and user experience.

April 18, 2022

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Oracle Database 19c on Cisco X210c M6 – WOW!

4 min read

Oracle database 19c performs extremely well running on the Cisco X210c compute node. Testing using Oracle SLOB (Silly Little Oracle Benchmark) and Oracle Swingbench prove excellent scalability for IOPS growth and high transaction sperminute with minimum latency. Details in a new whitepaper just published by Tushar Patel, Principal Engineer, Oracle Solutions at Cisco Systems, Inc.

April 13, 2022

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Expanding workloads for UCS X-Series with UCS X-Fabric Technology

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We describe X-Series as having the density and efficiency of blade servers with the expandability of rack servers. First, we increased the amount of storage – going from two drives on a B-Series to six drives on a X-Series. Now we are adding GPUs to X-Series that were previously only available in rack servers.

April 13, 2022

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Liquid Cooling for Computers is Cool Again – Here are the Reasons Why

4 min read

Third blog in the "Future of Hardware" series, we take a deeper look into recent advancements in liquid cooled computing technology.

April 12, 2022

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Hybrid cloud networks are calling – Cisco Nexus Dashboard has the answer

4 min read

With the Nexus Dashboard, we are helping customers figure out where in the network infrastructure automation journey they are. Then help them in their journey to move their performance zone from reactive, to proactive and then to optimizing and the visionary self-healing, self-driving, and self-diagnostic networks.

April 12, 2022

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Announcing Cisco Nexus Dashboard Open Ecosystem Expansion with ServiceNow

3 min read

We are very excited to announce the availability of new operations tools for Cisco Nexus Dashboard with our strategic partner ServiceNow: Nexus Dashboard Connector for ServiceNow and Cisco Cloud Network Insights App for the Now Platform.

April 11, 2022

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Cisco Partners with AMD to set a World Record!

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Cisco has once again extended its dominance in SQL Server based TPC-H results by posting a new record for the 30TB TPC-H decision support benchmark on SQL Server 2019, gaining 14% over HPE’s best result and 29% better then Cisco’s previous posting.

April 7, 2022

DATA CENTER

Addressing the noisy neighbor syndrome in modern SANs

7 min read

Cisco MDS 9000 Series provides all necessary capabilities to eliminate the noisy neighbor syndrome at the storage network level. By combining proper network design with high-speed links, congestion avoidance techniques such as DIRL, slow drain analysis and SAN Insights, IT administrators can deliver an optimal data access solution on a shared network infrastructure. 

April 6, 2022

DATA CENTER

UCS X-Series The Future of Computing – Part 3 of 3

3 min read

UCX X-Series architecture is an amalgamation of new ideas, trends, and some bets in cohesive fashion  to enable heterogeneous  computing. It solves the existing needs and enables  customers to adopt and extend hybrid cloud model as needed while balancing TCO.