Data Center

Cisco announced the UCS X-Series in June. But I know how hard it is to keep up with industry news, so I thought a blog series was a good way to familiarize / refamiliarize you with our next gen modular system.

With applications transitioning into the cloud, businesses need to automate infrastructure and application deployment in order to stay ahead of the game. F5 and Cisco make programmability and automation inherent parts of operational IT processes, and Ansible provides BIG-IP and ACI users a simple, yet powerful, multi-tier automation and orchestration platform.

Work/life balance has changed for many workers and their families, as have their workspace habits and preferences. IT organizations and workers have grown accustomed to being productive under mostly remote work circumstances. As companies begin their return to the office, it is critical to make infrastructure investments to support hybrid employees — and Cisco can help.

Join us on September 15th for Cisco Investments’ Magnetic Cloud, a virtual summit for hybrid cloud startup founders and investors. Learn how Cisco’s own internal innovation combines with the best that the cloud startup ecosystem has to offer in cloud-native capabilities, automation and data management.

Cisco Data Intelligence Platform (CDIP) will soon offer full support of Apache Spark 3.0 with the Cloudera Data Platform and NVIDIA GPU. Cisco has collaborated with NVIDIA and Cloudera to develop this new feature. The CDIP on CIsco UCS is a private cloud platform that runs your data-intensive and artifiical intelligence workloads.

At Cisco, we believe a successful hybrid cloud strategy requires three essential components: a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) stack that provides a scale-out compute-storage foundation with a cloud-like operating experience, a workload engine that delivers virtual machines- and containers-as-a-service, and a rich suite of SaaS that provides full-stack observability, workload management and optimization.

The new innovations from Cisco ePBR addresses the requirements for service chaining and load balancing between service nodes located across multiple data center fabrics interconnected through VXLAN EVPN Multi-Site architecture.

The Cisco Data Broker Controller application is now available as an app on Cisco Nexus Dashboard for enterprise network deployments, including campus and branch locations.

Troubleshooting configuration errors can be extremely tedious and painstaking. Cloud ACI can pro-actively monitor drifts in configuration between a stated intent and the actual configuration in the cloud, saving hours of debugging time.