#EngineersUnplugged S4|Ep3: Inside FlexPod Edition
Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, the crossover edition. That's right, this week, as we answer the question "I'm an Engineer, Why Would I Do That?" with TechWise TV's very own Jimmy...
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Tackling Operational Complexity – Fresh perspectives on role of DataCenter Infrastructure
In less than 48 hours, on Nov 6th, Cisco will officially announce details of its approach to Application Centric Infrastructure based on innovations from Insieme networks. [To join...
Summary What Moving to the Cloud Means for Healthcare Organizations
A lot of our data center customers are in the healthcare industry – This topic is close to my heart, as I used to work in this field several years ago. Healthcare organization are facing specific challenges in moving to the cloud, that Cisco
16 Gb Fibre Channel Market adoptions: EMC 16Gb connectivity (VMAX) announcement
For about 2 decades, Fibre Channel has been deployed to support the most rigorous and demanding applications, and is mainly because FC possesses certain characteristics that enterprise customers embrace, i.e – reliability, performance and
Three Years On, FlexPod is Smarter, Faster, and Better.
This month marks the three year anniversary of Cisco’s partnership with NetApp and our development of FlexPod. Over the years, we’ve experienced some tremendous growth, more than doubling new installations year-over-year, and now we have more than
#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...
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