Cisco UCS

November 10, 2016

DATA CENTER

Data Unstored: The Story Behind the S-Series … and Workloads

8 min read

What does Data Unstored mean?   It begins with connecting the unconnected. That the world is undergoing digital transformation is without question. Billions of devices are connected to the internet, and billions more will be connected by 2020. Over three and a half billion people have internet access today with another billion and a half […]

November 9, 2016

DATA CENTER

Do you need more storage but fewer servers?

1 min read

Last week, I discussed the economics of on-premises storage using the S3260 Storage Server vs. the cloud. Net net, the S3260 is 56% less expensive. Today, I wanted to talk about server consolidation of multiple 2RU rackmount servers on to a S3260. Yes, I’m going to try and sell you fewer servers. 2RU rackmount server […]

November 3, 2016

DATA CENTER

Green Cloud bets on Cisco UCS S-Series to power new lines of business

2 min read

Size matters—especially as physical data center space becomes more coveted at premium prices. So why wouldn’t you pack more into less, for less, if you could? That’s the approach that Green Cloud Technologies is taking with its investment in Cisco UCS S-Series storage-optimized servers. Green Cloud sells infrastructure and disaster recovery as a service, and […]

October 26, 2016

DATA CENTER

The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change. Big Data Trends and Directions Webinar

1 min read

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is the source of the phrase “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change”.  His saying is totally applicable to today’s world of Big Data and Analytics. Our industry landscape is constantly changing, no doubt about that! Think about it a bit from a technology point of view: Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, […]

October 10, 2016

DATA CENTER

.conf2016 – Beyond Machine Data. Cisco and Splunk Pave the Way for Digital Transformation

2 min read

  Guest Blog: Cisco Technical Marketing Engineer Karthik Karupasamy highlights his experiences from Splunk's recent .conf2016 event in Orlando, FL....

October 6, 2016

DATA CENTER

Business Insights Driven by Speed: An Olympic Size Example of Big Data

1 min read

Last week the Big Data and Analytics world was focused on New York City as the annual Strata+Hadoop World event took place. Cisco, as is the norm these past few years, was one of the many sponsors of the event. With our sponsorship came various opportunities, one of which was the ability for us to […]

October 5, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco HyperFlex 1.8 Release – The 5 Things You Need to Know

3 min read

It’s been exciting times since we launched, as customers have been showing exceptional love towards HyperFlex, amassing more than 600 customers, thousand of nodes and many petabytes of hyperconverged storage around the globe. In this post we’re going to cover the 5 things you must know about our latest product release.

September 27, 2016

DATA CENTER

Strata+Hadoop 2016 New York City. Top 10 Reasons for Visiting Cisco. Booth #833

2 min read

  In honor of David Letterman… we hope we did him proud: 10 –       Come Fly the Friendly Skies of Cisco. Hey, we are raffling off a drone end of day on Wednesday and Thursday. These are not just any old white box drones. These are custom Cisco branded drones. It’s a super limited […]

September 22, 2016

DATA CENTER

Introducing Cisco HyperFlex for GPU-Accelerated VDI at NVIDIA GTC Amsterdam

2 min read

NVIDIA is holding the first European edition of its successful GPU Technology Conference next week in Amsterdam. Cisco is excited to participate as a Platinum sponsor. We will have subject-matter experts on hand to talk to you about deep-learning, machine learning, virtualized graphics workstations and the infrastructure needed to support these. We’re excited about introducing […]