business continuity

March 26, 2015

CLOUD

ACI Programmability Enables Cloud Tenant BC/DR Across Dual Data Centers

2 min read

Ask any storage administrator trying to deploy Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) solutions between two data centers if it is simple  to get the networking set up for mission...

August 25, 2014

DATA CENTER

Business Continuity and Workload Mobility for Private Cloud (Cisco Validated Design-Part1)

4 min read

As a Cloud Architect, I’ve had the privilege to work with CTOs and CIOs across the globe to uncover the key factors driving Business Continuity and Workload Mobility across their cloud infrastructures. We’ve worked with enterprises, large and small, and service providers to answer their top five concerns in our new Business Continuity and Workload Mobility solution for […]

May 15, 2014

DATA CENTER

Business Continuity and Workload Mobility for Private Cloud (CVD Part 3)

4 min read

What is Next-Gen Workload Mobility for the Private Cloud? Enterprises across the globe have been asking for simpler ways to provide multi-site Business Continuity and Workload Mobility for applications hosted in their Private Cloud. The Cloud promises a more agile operational environment and that promise has been fulfilled to a large extent within their data centers. […]

May 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

Business Continuity and Workload Mobility for Private Cloud (CVD-Part2)

3 min read

In my previous blog, we provided an overview of the critical use cases and innovations we included in our new Business Continuity and Workload Mobility Solution for Private Cloud.  This blog highlights the critical trends and challenges driving new multi-site Cloud designs. Two important trends are driving CTO’s and CIO’s to deploy new multi-site Cloud solutions that provide better Business Continuity, […]

June 16, 2013

DATA CENTER

Virtualization Comes to the Oracle user Community

1 min read

Virtualizing Oracle Databases – The Time Has Come! Overall, virtualization of IT applications and databases is quite pervasive.  Estimates from industry analysts show that some applications and databases have virtualization penetration rates of 80 to 90%.  Overall the estimates for datacenter virtualization range from 60 to 70%.  One curious exception is the rate of virtualization […]

December 4, 2012

NETWORKING

What Does “Enterprise Class” Mean, Anyway? A Case Study with 3G/4G

3 min read

[WARNING: This blog post contains specifics on actual product features. Stop reading now if you prefer PowerPoint to Excel.] “Enterprise class.” Sounds awesome. But does it have any meaning to your business? It turns out that it does, but we need to dig into a real product example to make it clear. One shining example […]