April 17, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco HyperFlex vs. Public Cloud

5 min read

Late last year, I compared Cisco’s S3260 Storage Server to Amazon’s S3 service. The results shocked a lot of people and spurred a lot comments on the blog.

April 13, 2017

DATA CENTER

Go Fast with Cisco Hybrid Cloud

1 min read

Your company lives or dies by the applications you provide to customers and employees. Their expectations on how they access these applications have changed. Go Fast with Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite.

April 12, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco at DockerCon – Making Container Adoption Easier

2 min read

Join us at DockerCon to learn how the solutions we are developing with Docker will make it easier for enterprises to adopt containers in production. Cisco is offering a hands-on lab, 1×1 meetings with experts, demos and a presentation.

April 11, 2017

DATA CENTER

Help Is On The Way

1 min read

Digital transformation has created a sense of urgency to adopt “as a service” business models, such as hybrid cloud.  Hybrid cloud delivers speed and agility.  Users are empowered to deploy workloads across multiple cloud platforms.  Your business stays compliant and safe.  Business and development teams can use their platform of choice. Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud […]

April 11, 2017

DATA CENTER

Bringing Storage Area Networking to the Age of Hyper Scale Data

3 min read

There is no doubt that we are living in the Hyper Scale Data age when it comes to all things data storage related, which is impacting both consumers and companies. According to Cisco research, by the year 2020, the amount of data stored inside data centers is expected to grow by a factor of five, […]

April 4, 2017

DATA CENTER

New Facebook storage platform looking more like Cisco UCS

3 min read

A few weeks ago, this year’s Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, California concluded. I personally love this event to see what all the big massive scale data center operators are doing. I have been following the program since it’s inception and unfortunately missed this year’s event but you can definitely be sure I was […]

April 4, 2017

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Extending Ansible Automation to Cisco UCS and Nexus

3 min read

Administrators can use now use Ansible as their common tool for configuration management, deployment, and orchestration of Cisco UCS standalone rack servers and Cisco Nexus. Ansible can help you set up infrastructure quickly and easily.

March 30, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco and SAS Software. Trusted. Powerful. Comprehensive.

1 min read

‘…It takes a big village…’ so to speak when it comes to bringing enterprise-class big data & analytics solutions to the...

March 29, 2017

DATA CENTER

iCAM

1 min read

iCAM (Intelligent CAM) is Cisco’s breakthrough innovation that provides traffic analytics, per-feature hardware usage, recommendations and more, natively on the switch/router. So why is this important?   In today’s datacenter network, customers lack visibility into traffic patterns inside and outside the company. Whether it’s heavy internal application traffic between departments (e.g. HR, Finance), or it is […]