Cisco HyperFlex

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Freeing up (human) capacity in the Data Center

Data center capacity has historically been a technology concern focused on compute, storage, and power resources. But it now has a fourth vector: Humans. IT specialists are in extremely high demand and disconcertingly short supply. They’re responsible for an increasingly complex mix of infrastructure and applications, which in many cases have branched beyond the data […]

June 4, 2021 2 min read
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Cisco @ Equinix = Cloud Architecture at the Edge

Equinix and Cisco have partnered to help enterprises deploy and interconnect Cisco HyperFlex™ on Platform Equinix®, where they can gain access to an essential HCI foundation and agile hybrid/multi-cloud services at the edge. I’ve spoken of Cisco SD-WAN deployment options through Equinix in a previous blog. Here, I’ll focus on Cisco’s Cloud Architecture at the Edge.

June 1, 2021 2 min read
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Beyond Crisis: Building resilience in times of disruption

Organizations today need to equip their teams with technologies that allow them to work as one. They also need to invest in modernized infrastructure that is capable of automating IT processes and providing actionable insights based on a common data set. Those that do will tap into the ultimate superpower for business resiliency in the next new normal: IT agility.

September 10, 2020 3 min read
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Cisco HyperFlex All NVMe with Intel® Optane™ SSDs provides simplicity and scale for SAP…

Now certified by SAP for both HANA and Landscape applications, the HyperFlex 220c M5 All NVMe node ushers in a new era in hyperconverged infrastructure performance for the most latency-sensitive workloads. Using Intel® Xeon® processors,  Intel® Optane ™ SSDs and Intel® 3D NAND SSDs  for SAP HANA in HCI deployments provides excellent support for high-performance, high-capacity clusters that delivers the simplicity of hyperconvergence with the scale required for the SAP Landscape.

September 2, 2020 3 min read