Data Center

It has been more than decade since Cisco launched our UCS platform, a newcomer into the well-established enterprise server market. Rest is history. What has changed since then?

Customers expect complete vendor transparency when it comes to equipment performance in a production deployment. This is where Cisco goes above and beyond the competition, being fully transparent with publicly available verified scalability guides for cloud networking infrastructure and controllers, tested in environments using unidimensional and multidimensional configurations for single and multi-site environments.

Today Cisco announced innovations across our cloud and computing portfolio that build on our mission to simplify hybrid cloud operations for IT organizations and help them accelerate digital innovation for the business. Our objective from the onset has been to provide customers the flexibility and choice to bring everyone along – wherever they are on their hybrid cloud journey.

Skanska, a global leader in construction, wanted to migrate all of their applications to the cloud, but it was a poor fit for legacy workloads. They needed something organic, extensible, and adaptable. They needed software-defined networking (SDN) solutions like Cisco ACI and Cisco Cloud ACI.

Cisco and NetApp introduce additional hybrid cloud services and support for the FlexPod platform, extending the capabilities of Cisco Intersight and NetApp Data Fabric to support cloud-native apps, simplify workload and data management, and to improve hybrid cloud operations.

In this 'Focus on HyperFlex' blog, we'll zero-in on different aspects of the Cisco HyperFlex ('HX') hyperconverged system and ways to make HX work best for you and your organization. This edition will illustrate on how to size a cluster when you might not have all the details of the workload worked out. In this situation, HyperFlex Profiler is the right approach to learn more about the workloads.   

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) outperforms other networking vendor automation tools. It provides an easy-to-use and reliable way for customers to adopt an automation framework with minimal input.

Kaleida Health, the largest health system in Western New York, successfully implemented a sweeping data center modernization effort by utilizing the powerful combination of Cisco HyperFlex, Cisco ACI, and Cisco Intersight.

Cisco recently announced software availability of NX-OS 9.2(2) with support for SAN Analytics on the Cisco MDS 9700 switch with 64G Modules that provide the next phase of architecture innovation for SAN Analytics.