Steps to Overcome the Business Risks of Cloud Services
Do any web search on the inhibitors of moving to cloud and you’ll find a primary challenge rises to the top—business risk. The benefits of cloud often outweigh risks,...
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Nexus Flexibility Eases Transitions
Cisco has a broad base of data center customers with a diverse set of requirements and we meet their needs with Nexus - the most comprehensive switching portfolio in the...
Decoding UCS Invicta – Part 3
In part one of this series we covered the internals of HDDs, in part two we went over the internals of SSD, In part three we continue reviewing storage concepts to refresh or learn the right lingo. Lets start by understanding “Redundant Array of
SDN and Beyond: Cisco ACI Starts Shipping to Data Centers Worldwide on July 31!
ACI goes beyond SDN to help customers deliver business outcomes and not just network device programmability. That’s part of the reason over 175 customers signed up to trial the APIC...
The Future of Cloud, Part 5: The Value of Integration to Cloud Services
(This is part 5 of a 7-part series sharing insights from Cisco partners about the Future of Cloud.) “A lot of things go into building out a cloud practice that most people don’t realize until they get into it. Because we have been a systems
Power of Open Choice in Hypervisor Virtual Switching
Customers gain great value from server virtualization in the form of virtual machines (VM) and more recently Linux Containers /Dockers in data centers, clouds and branches. By some estimates, more than 60 % of the workloads are virtualized although
IBM builds High-Performance SAN to Deliver Managed Backup Services
IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS) team helps clients protect their mission-critical information and maintain continuous business operations, with help from Cisco MDS solutions and Cisco Services. Business Continuance describes the
IT Transformation: Avoiding Pitfalls
In the last two blogs, I talked about the reasons for IT Transformation, understanding Enterprise Environment and how to effectively set management goals. As more and more companies...
Cisco UCS and SAS: A Platform for Fast Data Analytics
Big Data Analytics is becoming an integral part of the enterprise IT ecosystem. In order to realize its full potential it must be integrated with traditional data management systems and analytics technologies (and in the near future with Internet of