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Cisco Nexus 9000 Intelligent Buffers in a VXLAN/EVPN Fabric
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This blog post addresses some of the common areas of confusion and concern, and touches on a few best practices for maximizing the value of using Cisco Nexus 9000 switches for Data Center fabric deployments by leveraging the available Intelligent Buffering capabilities.
Disaster Recovery Solutions for the Edge with HyperFlex and Cohesity
2 min read
The edge computing architecture comes with a variety of benefits and unique challenges related to data protection and disaster recovery.
Barmherzige Brüder Österreich uses HyperFlex to power SAP HANA
1 min read
Barmherzige Brüder Österreich, which operates a number of hospitals and assisted living facilities in Europe, recently improved the performance and availability of SAP HANA with two HyperFlex clusters.
Establishing a Cloud Operating Model with On-prem Systems
1 min read
With modern data center systems providing unprecedented levels of flexibility, automation, and policy-based consistency, any organization can now achieve cloud efficiency, speed, and scale.
Scaling your data center without scaling staff and operations
1 min read
Systems simplicity and operational efficiency, are the hallmarks of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions like Cisco HyperFlex. Not only does HyperFlex help modernize a data center, it also enables infrastructure expansion without increasing your operational burden.
Cisco Storage Networking is 20 Years Young
4 min read
Twenty years ago, Cisco started shipping the Cisco MDS 9000 storage networking switches. Since then, Cisco has introduced a number of groundbreaking storage networking innovations like Nexus switching and management technologies. These innovations have benefited our customers for decades now and have advanced the storage networking industry at large.
Keeping Your Apps and Data Available With HyperFlex
5 min read
The Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform (HXDP) is a distributed hyperconverged infrastructure system that has been built from inception to handle individual component failures across the spectrum of hardware elements without interruption in services. As a result, the system is highly available and capable of extensive failure handling.
Top Ten Benefits of Upgrading from DCNM to NDFC SAN
8 min read
In January 2023, we launched the third major release (12.1.2) of NDFC SAN Controller. This makes the perfect time to upgrade from DCNM to NDFC not just because three is a magic number, but also because of ten reasons that I am sharing in this post.
ACI Segmentation and Migrations made easier with Endpoint Security Groups (ESG)
8 min read
Endpoint Security Groups (ESGs) are the new network security component in Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) which offer an alternate way of handling segmentation with the added flexibility of decoupling the earlier concepts of forwarding and security associated with Endpoint Groups (EPGs).