#EngineersUnplugged S4|Ep2: Storage Is the New Black
Welcome back to the latest episode of Engineers Unplugged, featuring the inimitable dynamic duo of storage, Vaughn Stewart (@vStewed) and Chad Sakac (@sakacc). They discuss three...
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OpenStack@Cisco – Havana release and IceHouse Summit
Earlier in this month the OpenStack community came out with the biannual OpenStack release – Havana. According to the OpenStack Foundation, not only did Havana add close to 400 new features across Compute (Nova), Storage (Swift), Networking (Neutron)
WHIPTAIL + UCS = peanut butter + chocolate
Back on September 10th, Cisco announced the intent to acquire WHIPTAIL and today I’m excited to report to our Data Center blog readers that the acquisition has been completed! Paul Perez has laid out Cisco’s vision for this technology and the
Big Picture Thinking Makes Tactics Easier
In order to provide important services and innovations that better align to business, data centers must deploy advancecd IT architectures. Who says? IDC. In fact, this month they reported that adoption of integrated systems has moved from evaluation
Cisco @ Strata Conference + Hadoop World
Cisco is a Zettabyte sponsor at this week’s Strata Conference + Hadoop World in New York, NY, October 28-30. Everyone’s talking about big data, but who’s actually doing it right—and how? Find out at Strata + Hadoop World, where big
Announcing Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture v2 (CPA v2) for Big Data
Also launches, Industry’s first reference architecture for Hadoop with advanced access control and encryption with IDH, first flash-enhanced reference architecture for Hadoop demonstrated using YCSB with MapR, industry’s first validated and certified
Industrialization of IT – Are you ready for IT?
I was at the recent Gartner Symposium in Orlando and the topic of industrialization of IT services came up in some sessions presented by Gartner analyst, William Maurer. This is a timely and interesting topic given that the Centennial celebrations of
Unleashing IT Big Data Launch
Unleash and Unlock There’s value in your Big Data Organizations are rethinking the realm of possibility that exists with the vast amount of data they gather and store with each IT transaction. The value of this data can unleash and unlock priceless
Applications: The Reason We Have Infrastructure
Recently, the conversations I have been having about Software Defined Networks have shifted from supplying agile networking for VM provisioning and live migrations to looking at the problem through the...