F5 Agility 2015: Next Stop Down Under
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...
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A Tour of Cisco’s Allen Data Center
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
Flipping the 70-30 IT OPEX Model On Its Head
In today’s always on and connected, Internet of Things environments, IT is taking center stage to optimize business
#EngineersUnplugged S7|E3 The IOPS Don’t Lie!
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
Cisco Keynote – End-to-End Optimization for Today’s Modern Datacenters
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...
Hard Choices !
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
UCS M-Series System Link Technology: The converged infrastructure story.
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
New Nexus 9300 Switches join the Nexus 9000 Series
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...
UCS M-Series Design Principles – Why bigger is not necessarily better!
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