September 15, 2021

DATA CENTER

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller: A New Era in Data Center Network Automation

3 min read

Discover how the new Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller addresses an array of data center automation challenges while being very easy to deploy and operate.

September 14, 2021

DATA CENTER

Modernize your SAN with Cisco MDS 64G Fibre Channel

5 min read

Today’s Storage Area Networks (SAN) need to evolve to 64G Fibre Channel to support the increasing application workloads and performance requirements. Learn more about Cisco’s 64G module that provides a range of innovations to help SAN customers adopt and evolve their SAN today.

September 14, 2021

DATA CENTER

Data, Data Everywhere: The Challenges of Hybrid Cloud Networks

2 min read

As complexities and expectations escalate, hybrid network management often remains inefficient and subpar, despite all the tools and money and people on the tasks. The answer to all this complexity? A single command center: Cisco Nexus Dashboard.

September 13, 2021

DATA CENTER

Cisco 64G Module: Enabling The Most Power Efficient SANs

3 min read

Current sustainability efforts require power-efficient solutions that can deliver more bandwidth at a reduced wattage. Cisco recently introduced 48 ports on the Cisco MDS 9700 64-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module, a real technological breakthrough. Increased bandwidth, combined with approximately 40% decrease in power consumption makes it about 7 times more power efficient than its predecessor.

September 8, 2021

DATA CENTER

UCS X-Series: Unbox the future today

2 min read

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.

September 8, 2021

DATA CENTER

Multi-tier automation and orchestration with Cisco ACI, F5 BIG-IP and Red Hat Ansible

4 min read

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.

September 7, 2021

DATA CENTER

Choosing the right virtual desktop infrastructure for your hybrid employee workspaces

2 min read

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.

September 2, 2021

DATA CENTER

Magnetic Cloud 2021: How Cisco Partners with the Cloud Startup Ecosystem

3 min read

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.

August 31, 2021

DATA CENTER

Accelerate Data Lake on Cisco Data Intelligence Platform with NVIDIA and Cloudera

3 min read

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.