Cisco Data Center

August 11, 2015

DATA CENTER

F5 Agility 2015: Next Stop Down Under

3 min read

In a few weeks Spring season will set in, and it’ll be a Ripper Down Under. For the Data Center technology geeks there is plenty of action in store to...

May 11, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

A Tour of Cisco’s Allen Data Center

4 min read

As a consultant I have seen many different ‘Data Centers’, from Co-location facilities, to in house and well thought out, to a dirty closet that no one was using. Douglas Alger gave us a tour of Cisco’s Data Center in Allen, TX about a month ago. I was expecting to be impressed and I was […]

March 5, 2015

DATA CENTER

Flipping the 70-30 IT OPEX Model On Its Head

2 min read

In today’s always on and connected, Internet of Things environments, IT is taking center stage to optimize business operations. Many IT organizations allocate 70% or more...

January 21, 2015

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged S7|E3 The IOPS Don’t Lie!

1 min read

In this episode, Matt Brender (@mjbrender) and Rick Vanover (@RickVanover) give us an overview of why you should let your IOPS tell the truth!  Ever wonder if your expectations for the modern Data Center match the reality?  Matt and Rick go through the math and thinking for what your storage systems can and cannot do! Special […]

December 8, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco Keynote – End-to-End Optimization for Today’s Modern Datacenters

1 min read

Have a bit of free time this Wednesday morning? If so please feel free to sit in on a Cisco keynote delivered by Mark Balch, Director of Cisco UCS Product...

October 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

Hard Choices !

3 min read

Sorry .. I did not mean to steal the title of Hillary Clinton’s book. It so happened that we had to deal with “hard choices” of our own,  when we had to decide on the management approach to our new M-Series platform. In the first blog of the UCS M-Series Modular Servers journey series, Arnab […]

October 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

UCS M-Series System Link Technology: The converged infrastructure story.

4 min read

It almost feels like this blog entry should start with: Once upon a time….   Because it captures a journey of a young emerging technology and the powerful infrastructure tool it has become. The Cisco UCS journey starts with the tale of Unified Fabric and the Converged Network Adapter (CNA). Most people think of Unified Fabric […]

October 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

New Nexus 9300 Switches join the Nexus 9000 Series

2 min read

It’s an exciting time in to be in our industry, especially as we witness how technology continues to reshape how we connect and communicate through a myriad of applications and devices...

September 24, 2014

DATA CENTER

UCS M-Series Design Principles – Why bigger is not necessarily better!

2 min read

Cisco UCS M-Series servers have been purpose built to fit specific need in the data center. The core design principles are around sizing the compute node to meet the needs of cloud scale applications. When I was growing up I used to watch a program on PBS called 3-2-1 Contact, most afternoons, when I came […]