The Napkin Dialogues: Lossless iSCSI
We bring out the napkins again to discuss lossless iSCSI and its design implications
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Upcoming Webcast with Microsoft MVP Will Shed Light on Nexus 1000V for Hyper-V and SCVMM Integration
[Register here for the webcast: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 9:00 AM Pacific Time] If you are running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 in your virtualized data center (or plan to), you’ll want to join us for a detailed webcast on Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual
Cisco UCS SmartPlay Offers for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint & SQL Server
As you look at your upcoming Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, or SQL Server projects keep in mind Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) SmartPlay program. The program offers attractive pricing on select Cisco UCS blade and rack server bundles. Our
Cisco Domain Ten: Domain 7: Platform
Domain 7 in our Cisco Domain TenSM framework for data center transformation is what we call “Platform”. More specifically, this term refers to the “software platform” upon which your business applications will run. In short
The server business isn’t a popularity contest, but if it was…
…here are the type of votes contestants would love to receive. We recently saw two items that speak well on the progress of UCS against the most important yardsticks: how IT professionals and our partners rate Cisco as a computing systems vendor.
VDI “The Missing Questions” #5: How does 1vCPU scale compared to 2vCPU’s?
More and more this novel idea of user classifications and workload profiles is being used to separate VDI user allocations. I’ve worked with many customers who prefer to stack rank their users based on the importance of their role/job function
Building on Success: Cisco and Intel Expand Partnership to Big Data
This has been an exciting week. Further expanding its Big Data portfolio, Cisco has announced collaboration with Intel, its long term partner, for the next generation of open platform for data management and analytics. The joint solution combines
#EngineersUnplugged: S2|Ep2| #SDN Doughnut Style
In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Brian Gracely (@bgracely) of Virtustream takes on the challenge of explaining the industry’s top buzzword, Software Defined Networking, using doughnuts. Seeing is believing: Welcome to
Nexus 1000V InterCloud… And Now Here’s the Demo
There’s been a great deal of excitement, interest and certainly follow-on questions after we announced our new hybrid cloud integration solution, Nexus 1000V InterCloud. My earlier three-part blog consisted of Part 1 on the architecture and