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Nexus 9500 Turns Five: Building on 25 Years of Experience and Expertise
Albert Einstein once said “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Captured in that self-effacing comment is an insight that applies to the...
Cisco Delivers Flexible Deployment Options for Large-Scale Cloud Providers
Cisco continues to work closely with our webscale customers to deliver various operating and consumption models that enable increased agility and a lower total cost of ownership.
Grifols Increases IT Efficiency and Builds Global Data Center Network with Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI enabled Grifols to define application and security policies upfront, with simplified administration and implementation. Also, ACI’s centralized management and comprehensive visibility across end-to-end network, simplified the troubleshooting process. Further, ACI’s multi-site capability allowed Grifols to connect all its four data centers (two in US and two in Spain), all running the same configurations, policy and security.
VXLAN Innovations on the Nexus OS: Part 1 of 2
Posting this blog on behalf of Babi Seal, Senior Manager, Product Management, INSBU and Lukas Krattiger, Principal Engineer, INSBU Virtual Extensible LAN or VXLAN for short has been around...
The Cisco Nexus 9516 Thrusts Itself into the Record Books
October 2017 will mark the 20-year anniversary of the world record set for the fastest automobile ever recorded – the appropriately named “ThrustSSC” that distinguished itself as the first car to ever break the sound barrier Almost two decades later, the Cisco Nexus 9516 Switch put up some serious performance numbers of its own such […]
Policy Driven Automation Enables Innovation or Why Customers Adopt Vscale Architecture
Some of our largest enterprise customers are deploying the next-generation of data center networking. They are delivering automation and intelligence with programmable hardware and software – deployed with application centric...
For Data Center Security, It’s Not ‘Trust, but Verify’, Verify Again, and then Trust
According to the Cisco 2017 Annual Security Report, security attacks on businesses have significant consequences with nearly quarter of these companies suffering lost business opportunities, 20 percent of them losing customers, and more than 30 percent of them losing revenue. For example, the recent rash of ransomware attacks around the globe are expected to cost […]
Cisco Nexus Reaches Another Impressive Milestone through Continued Innovation Delivery
Cisco recently announced a major customer milestone in our data center portfolio with the news that the Unified Computing System topped more than 60,000 active customers, from literally zero in 2009. Other parts of our data center portfolio are doing just as well as we discussed in our most recent earnings call where we announced […]
Why 50% Lower Cost and 50% Improved Application Performance with a Cisco IP Storage Fabric Matters for the Real World
Discussions of enterprise storage networking often focus too much on the speeds-and-feeds of a given technology or system and very little on the use case. Is Fibre Channel faster than...