Cisco Nexus

March 2, 2015

DATA CENTER

No Latency Load Balancer in Data Centers

1 min read

Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is a zero latency multi-terabit layer 4 load-balancer available on 5k/6k/7k/9k. It has support for traffic steering and clustering solution on the Nexus  series of switches. ITD allows customers to deploy servers and appliances from any vendor with no network or topology changes. With a few simple configuration steps on […]

February 5, 2015

DATA CENTER

VXLAN/EVPN: Standards based Overlay with Control-Plane

3 min read

Given the tremendous interest in VXLAN with MP-BGP based EVPN Control-Plane (short EVPN) at Cisco Live in Milan, I decided to write a “short” technology brief blog post on this topic. VXLAN (IETF RFC7348) has been designed to solve specific problems faced with Classical Ethernet for a few decades now. By introducing an abstraction through […]

February 5, 2015

DATA CENTER

Your Design Engineers Need Support and ‘Expertise on Tap’ Too!

3 min read

If you are involved in designing, supporting or managing a data center, you will undoubtedly rely on technical support services from one or more vendors.  Running your data center, there...

February 2, 2015

DATA CENTER

Announcing Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware vSphere 6 Release

2 min read

The Cisco Nexus 1000V has been supported in VMware vSphere hypervisor since 4.0 release (August 2009) up to the current vSphere release 5.5 update 2.  We are happy to announce...

January 22, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

Introduction to Nexus 1000v Features and Deployment

3 min read

Over the last 12 months I’ve been doing a lot of work that has involved the Cisco Nexus 1000v, and during this time I came to realise that there wasn’t a huge amount of recent information available online about it. Because of this I’m going to put together a short post covering what the 1000v […]

January 6, 2015

DATA CENTER

IT Automation Eases the Cost of Doing Business

2 min read

The increasing pace of business is creating high demand for IT efficiency and speed. IT directly affects your ability to respond correctly and quickly to new opportunities.  Slow IT equates to slow business. The latest release of Cisco UCS Director allows IT to automate the deployment of infrastructure delivering the speed and efficiency IT needs […]

January 5, 2015

DATA CENTER

Capture New Business Opportunity with Effective Automation

2 min read

The connections between your business success and data center efficiency have never been clearer or stronger. Delivering data center resources quickly to capitalize on new business opportunities or projects is a major factor for business success. The only way to expedite resource delivery is by replacing manual processes with repeatable, best-practice-based automated service consumption and […]

December 23, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Top Cisco Innovations

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To celebrate 30 years of innovation at Cisco (#We are Cisco), we’ve asked Cisco Champions what they think is the most important Cisco innovation to date. Cisco Champions are seasoned IT technical experts and influencers who enjoy sharing their knowledge, expertise, and thoughts across the social web and with Cisco. The Cisco Champions program encompasses […]

December 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

Why Upgrade to MDS 9700

6 min read

MDS 9500 family has supported customers for more than a decade helping them  through FC speed transitions from 1G, 2G, 4G, 8G and 8G advanced without forklift upgrades. But as we look in the future the MDS 9700 makes more sense for a lot of data center designs.  Top four reasons for customers to upgrade are […]