UCS Innovation for Core Data Center Applications
We have a number of exciting additions to the UCS family, which we are announcing today. Application architectures are fundamentally changing, which is driving a change to the...
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Cisco UCS Mini – Edge-Scale Computing
Cisco’s Unified Computing System, originally designed for the datacenter is now optimized for Branch Office / Remote Office (ROBO), point-of-sale, and smaller IT environments with the announcement today of UCS Mini. This solution delivers servers
Cisco UCSO – A solution whose name length is second only to the list of customer benefits
Open source software is driving innovation in mobile devices and platforms, cloud services, big data and social technologies, as it continues to shape next generation data center architectures. Specifically, interest in OpenStack has been growing: IT
Solving the last mile in Hadoop deployment
A recent Gartner report quotes “More than 30% of all support tickets (for hadoop) are related to mis-configuration”. Despite the immense opportunity with Big Data, Customers deploying Hadoop clusters are still riddled with the complexity of deployment
#EngineersUnplugged S6|Ep7: Technology Career Convergence
In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, we take a break from talking about the technology and talk about the technologists! Where is your career headed, what are the trends? John Mark Troyer (@jtroyer) and Matthew Brender (@mjbrender)
Four More Awards for the Cisco IT Team and Cisco Prime Service Catalog
The Cisco IT internal implementation of Cisco Prime Service Catalog, dubbed the Cisco IT “eStore”, is no stranger to awards. Earlier this year, the Cisco IT eStore ranked in the InformationWeek Elite 100 and was nominated a finalist for the
Application Enablement and Innovation Leveraging Linux Containers
Linux containers and Docker are poised to radically change the way applications are built, shipped, deployed, and instantiated. They accelerate application delivery by making it easy to package the dependencies along with the application. That means
Integrating ACI & Nexus 2000-7000
As the breadth and depth of the ACI solution continues to grow, so does customer interest. Many customers who have invested in, and continue to invest in, the Nexus 2000-7000...
Next Generation Applications and Data Analytics
I was speaking with a customer today at VMworld and, unlike many discussions, which are focused on the infrastructure (servers, storage, networking), this one turned primarily on the application. This person was describing to me his need to match the