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A little over a month ago, I had the pleasure of attending Cisco Live in Milan, Italy. It was a busy week doing FlexPod demos and meeting with our customers and technology partners. This provided me the opportunity to grab some video time with Michael
This is an amazing episode of Engineers Unplugged, where two technologists from the community, Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000) and Colin Lynch (@ucsguru) discuss how ACI disrupts traditional...
Imagine that you head the leading telecommunications provider in Italy and you are watching traditional service and revenue streams struggle under intense competitive pressure. Customer retention is a major issue because the types of services required
Never before has mankind had access to such an ever-widening range of personal communication options, giving us the ability to create, disseminate and consume information immediately. The frenetic pace at which devices join the Internet is
In his paper “A Data Center Fabric is Critical to the Next Generation of Data Center ” published on January 2014, Zeus Kerravala (@Zeeman) wrote ” The data center has gone through many major evolutionary changes over the past
When Cisco first introduced FCoE in 2008 we knew that it was going to be the foundation for something very powerful in the data center. FCoE combined the best of both worlds in the Data Center – Ethernet and Fibre Channel storage – and allow them to
Earlier this year Cisco announced the Cisco Prime Virtual Network Analysis Module (vNAM), an integral component of the Cisco Cloud Network Services portfolio. While a virtual NAM has been available on the Nexus 1100 Cloud Services Platform (a UCS
“Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future” – Jedi Master Yoda. Yoda image credit: www.yodaquotes.net “Planning for the future can be challenging . To effectively prepare for the unknown it is best to design into any plans, the added
Learn how to deploy cloud connectivity for your data center with confidence and help enable critical business operations in this Data Center Design Zone webcast Series on March 11 at 8 a.m. Pacific Time. March 11 at 8:00 AM Pacific Time Cisco
