Cisco Data Center and Cloud

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Upgrading your ACI Fabric has never been easier.  You can approach an upgrade with intelligence, insight, and a clear plan.  With upgrades, you gain features, stability, security with Cisco ACI while realizing the best return on your investment.

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Cisco supports the design and implementation of high-speed Fibre Channel fabrics, leading a change to the traditional FSPF link cost calculation for 128 Gbps serial interfaces due to the Cisco-only capability to create logical links with up to 16 members.

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Bringing simplicity to complex hybrid cloud operations is the fundamental goal of Cisco Intersight. Intersight provides comprehensive visibility, consistent day-to-day operations, and automated orchestration to ensure infrastructure is secure and compliant across all hybrid assets.

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If you’re still using spreadsheets and CLIs – or if you’re looking for a simple and flexible network management toolset – perhaps it’s time to consider a cloud-based alternative.  

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In the first blog of this series, we saw just how easy it was to deploy a X210c Compute Node with Cisco Intersight. Last week, we showed how X-Series can deliver outstanding performance for Oracle databases. Today, we are going to go a bit deeper on configuration and show how easy it is to get great performance with very little effort.

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Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer discovers how all the parts of your hybrid world are connected and automates day-to-day application resource management operations for you. It provides visibility into application and infrastructure inter-dependencies and insight from real-time analytics powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help ensure the right resource decisions at the right time to ensure application performance.

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Today’s digital economy runs on applications that are fueled by resources from a diverse set of environments, distributed technologies, architectures, platforms, and tools. The demands of this reality make application resource management (ARM) an essential function of IT. This blog reviews the basics of application resource management, why IT departments should care, and how they can get started.

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Oracle is the choice for many enterprise database applications. See and read why Cisco UCS X-Series is an ideal choice for your Oracle workloads.

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The UCS X-Series powered by Cisco Intersight was purpose-built through foundational innovations for transforming on-prem compute deployments for hybrid cloud operating models. One of the most innovative aspects of the X-Series is its versatility as demonstrated by the evolutionary aspects of the X-Fabric and its modular system design that blurs the line between rack and blade server form factors.