Cisco Nexus

July 25, 2016

DATA CENTER

Bringing Consistent Automation Across Cisco Nexus and Catalyst with Ansible 2.1

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We had a busy week around the middle of July with ChefConf 2016 (Austin, Texas July 11 – 13) and Cisco Live US (Las Vegas, Nevada July 10 – 14). Now we’re moving on to AnsibleFest July 28 San Francisco where Cisco is a Gold sponsor as well as a Networking Hub sponsor. I guess […]

July 10, 2016

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If Programmability & Automation Top of Mind, Visit us @ChefConf, @CL Las Vegas

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This year we have ChefConf 2016 (Austin, Texas July 11 – 13) and Cisco Live US (Las Vegas, Nevada July 10 – 14) occurring around the same time. We realize that customers may not be able to attend both so we made sure we’re present at ChefConf. Regardless where you’ll be, we got you covered! […]

June 22, 2016

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Big Data is a Big Deal for Your Infrastructure (and it is Cool!)

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As I author this, I am in my hotel room in Chicago and its Thursday evening. Our core Cisco Big Data...

May 24, 2016

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Flexible Backup and Restore with PoAP Personality Profile

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This is a guest blog written by Sunil Gudurvalmiki, Product Manager, Insieme Business Unit.     Data center operations teams are increasingly looking at tools to automate and simplify the manual tasks. In addition, they are driving towards using the same tools across compute, storage and network. Cisco announced the availability of Cisco Open NXOS to enable […]

May 6, 2016

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Hybrid Cloud Power Trio

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When I hear the term "power trio", I think of Geddy, Neil and Alex.  A band, where there’s just a bass, drums and guitar, with one of  'em singing.  By the way,...

May 2, 2016

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How Digital Transformation is Disrupting IT Service Management

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Part 1 of 2 Tackling the planet’s largest, most fearsome waves motivates surfing pros to take terrifying risks.   Take Carlos Burle, a Brazilian big wave surfer, who unofficially...

April 28, 2016

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Nexus and MDS Management & Automation Made Simple!

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As customers move to architect their data centers to support cloud model to enable them to respond quickly to business needs, software management and orchestration plays a key role in making that happen. Simply put you need software that easily integrates with existing infrastructure and provides ease of fabric automation and flexibility, visibility, troubleshooting and […]

March 28, 2016

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3 Reasons 10 Million Is A Big Number

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  10 Million is a big number. How big? To put it in perspective, 10 million minutes is a bit over 19 years…Which is about 15 years longer than it took the Nexus 3000 to reach 10 million ports sold. Said differently, the Nexus 3000 is the Top of Rack switch of choice for lots […]

March 4, 2016

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From Applications to ASICs in 3D: Changes, Part Three

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3D: Digitization and Disruption in the Data Center This week at Partner Summit, Cisco made major headlines with Data...