Avoid Wild Light Sabers & See How Pulsant Delivers Cloud Services Faster With ACI (Case Study)
Being fast is important this time of year. X–Wing Fighters in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” are fast. Avoiding that overly...
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TPC-DS V2 – A new benchmark standard for SQL based Big Data systems
Announced today, TPC-DS V2 is the Industry’s first standard for benchmarking SQL based big data systems. Over the last two years, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), has reinvented itself in several ways – with new standard
A Year in Review. Big Data and Analytics 2015. 3rd Generation Platforms, World Record Performance, and Expanding Partner
My goodness… Were we ever busy in 2015! Our Cisco Big Data & Analytics teams executed and delivered a tremendous body of work with several key accomplishments these past 12...
Composable Infrastructure Part 6: Understanding Infrastructure Options
The IT industry is in a significant period of transition, and the infrastructure landscape has changed a great deal. There are many options today, and the number of options will grow over the next two years. Having more options can more lead to
Microsegmentation with Cisco ACI
Modern data centers are under unrelenting attack. East-west traffic security breaches are happening every day. According to Cisco, 75 percent of all attacks take only minutes to begin stealing data but take longer to detect. Once discovered, several
Part 2: Ten Learnings and Observations from the 2015 London Gartner Data Center Conference
Last week I attended the 2015 London Gartner Data Center conference. In my first blog (part 1) on this event, I covered some of my main learnings and...
ACI Applications Spotlight: Microsegmentation and New Application Partners
At Gartner's Data Center Conference this year, everyone is talking about how Data Centers are evolving to meet the needs of mobile, social, Big Data, and cloud native applications. The...
UCS M-Series and Citrix XenApp Bare Metal Deployments
If you are one of the 330,000 organizations using Citrix XenApp (or if you are considering it) you need to consider Cisco’s UCS M-Series modular servers. What are M-Series modular servers? M-Series servers are composable infrastructure that
Want to Empower your Digital Enterprise – Join Cisco at the Gartner Data Center Conference 2015, Vegas
The year 2015 has been a very busy year for Cisco Data center Business Units. We are very pleased to end the year on a high note with the Gartner...