April 18, 2023

DATA CENTER

Establishing a Cloud Operating Model with On-prem Systems

1 min read

With modern data center systems providing unprecedented levels of flexibility, automation, and policy-based consistency, any organization can now achieve cloud efficiency, speed, and scale.

April 13, 2023

DATA CENTER

Scaling your data center without scaling staff and operations

1 min read

Systems simplicity and operational efficiency, are the hallmarks of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions like Cisco HyperFlex. Not only does HyperFlex help modernize a data center, it also enables infrastructure expansion without increasing your operational burden.

March 28, 2023

DATA CENTER

Recent Innovations in Cisco ACI – AlgoSec Solution for Network Security Policy Management

2 min read

AlgoSec’s Security Management solutions for Cisco ACI extend ACI's policy-driven automation to security devices in ACI fabrics, provide visibility into the security posture of ACI, and helpensure continuous compliance across multi-cloud environments.

March 23, 2023

DATA CENTER

Cisco Storage Networking is 20 Years Young

4 min read

Twenty years ago, Cisco started shipping the Cisco MDS 9000 storage networking switches. Since then, Cisco has introduced a number of groundbreaking storage networking innovations like Nexus switching and management technologies. These innovations have benefited our customers for decades now and have advanced the storage networking industry at large.

March 22, 2023

DATA CENTER

Keeping Your Apps and Data Available With HyperFlex

5 min read

The Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform (HXDP) is a distributed hyperconverged infrastructure system that has been built from inception to handle individual component failures across the spectrum of hardware elements without interruption in services.  As a result, the system is highly available and capable of extensive failure handling.

March 9, 2023

DATA CENTER

Top Ten Benefits of Upgrading from DCNM to NDFC SAN

8 min read

In January 2023, we launched the third major release (12.1.2) of NDFC SAN Controller. This makes the perfect time to upgrade from DCNM to NDFC not just because three is a magic number, but also because of ten reasons that I am sharing in this post.

March 6, 2023

DATA CENTER

ACI Segmentation and Migrations made easier with Endpoint Security Groups (ESG)

8 min read

Endpoint Security Groups (ESGs) are the new network security component in Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) which offer an alternate way of handling segmentation with the added flexibility of decoupling the earlier concepts of forwarding and security associated with Endpoint Groups (EPGs).

March 2, 2023

DATA CENTER

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Helps Accelerate Operations, Improve Efficiency and Enable Self-Service with ServiceNow Solutions

2 min read

With the introduction of ServiceNow Connector for Nexus Dashboard, we bring ServiceNow incident management capabilities to Nexus Dashboard that enable network operators to manage the lifecycle of their ServiceNow incidents, track the incident updates and deliver their service requests on Nexus Dashboard.

February 28, 2023

DATA CENTER

Cisco Drives Simplified Operations and Energy Efficiency with Intersight and UCS X-Series

3 min read

Cisco simplifies the purchase and procure processes for Intersight, consolidating licensing, each with a suite of functionality, making it easier to select the right tier for your businesses, plus a new offer that simplifies and accelerates deployment of more energy-efficient computing systems and operations in one convenient bundle.