Guest Author: Brad Casemore IDC Research Director, Datacenter Networks Whether resident in traditional datacenters or – increasingly – in the cloud, applications remain the means by which digital transformation is brought to fruition and business value is realized. Accordingly, management and orchestration of applications – and not just management of infrastructure resources – are critical to […]
When talking with customers, it is rare when I encounter one who is “all in” with private or “all-in” with public cloud. Customers have come to realize that a single platform cannot deliver all the capabilities required by application, business and IT teams. Developers want self-service and fast access to cloud infrastructure. IT needs control […]
The Economics of Network Downtime Infonetics Research recently released a study that claims businesses (just in North America alone) lose as much as $100 million a year due to network downtime. Let us dissect that into numbers you and I can relate to. On average, businesses suffer from 14 (CA Technologies) to 87 hours (Gartner) […]
Every organization needs more from their data centers, such as faster services and data analysis for real-time decision making. The unprecedented expansion of data is a major driver of rapid data center transformation. Consider these statistics: 90% of all data in the world was created in the last three years Data centers handled 214 exabytes […]
Storage 101 Less than a year ago, October 29th 2013, Cisco acquired Whiptail {http://newsroom.cisco.com/release/1279074}, a high performance scalable solid-state memory system. Shortly after its acquisition, the product lines were renamed UCS Invicta. The idea behind UCS Invicta and its market positioning is application acceleration. This is not to be considered a traditional storage but instead […]
Storage 101 Less than a year ago, October 29th 2013, Cisco acquired Whiptail , a high performance scalable solid-state memory system. Shortly after its acquisition, the product lines were renamed UCS Invicta. The idea behind UCS Invicta and its market positioning is application acceleration. This is not to be considered a traditional storage but instead […]
In previous blogs I have described how organizations are maturing beyond provisioning of individual servers to provisioning of richer cloud-based application stacks. Known as platform-as-a-service (PaaS), this capability takes cloud technology beyond infrastructure to automate the application life cycle. PaaS allows developers and IT operations to collaborate and ensure that application stacks are consistent and […]
“Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport… the thrill of victory… and the agony of defeat… the human drama of athletic competition,” voiced Jim McKay in the Wide World of Sports introduction. In two years, the world will tune in to Rio de Janeiro as the Brazil hosts the human drama […]
Since Cisco announced its intent to acquire WHIPTAIL, many have taken to the Internet to speculate about how WHIPTAIL’s flash memory systems will fit into Cisco’s product line. The speculation ended with the launch of Cisco’s UCS Invicta™ Series Solid-State Systems. By introducing the capability and performance of flash memory into the UCS platform, which […]
