Cisco UCS

September 27, 2016

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

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  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

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

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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 […]

September 21, 2016

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Cisco, Big Data, and Strata+Hadoop 2016. In a New York Minute…

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OK, a New York minute? In less than 60 seconds let’s see what’s going on with Cisco at Strata+Hadoop 2016 New York City next week. The event is the largest Big Data event in the Americas and we look forward to attending each year. Cool Things… We have a lot happening with learning and listening […]

September 13, 2016

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See new innovations in Cisco Data Center at SAP TechEd

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It’s September and once again time for a very rare happening: an industry trade show in Las Vegas! Get ready for #SAPTechEd the week of September 19. But unlike other Vegas behavior (you know who you are), we hope this time what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. In fact, Cisco is showcasing […]

August 25, 2016

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Vegas Street Performers, HyperFlex, and VMworld

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    VMworld 2016 US is finally here! In a town known for hype, HyperFlex is proving to be the real deal....

August 3, 2016

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ING Direct Australia Builds a Private Cloud for More Agile Development

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We all know that there’s a lot of hype around cloud computing. While many companies won’t move their data to a public cloud anytime soon, the private cloud option is very compelling. IDC estimates that spending on private cloud IT infrastructure will grow by 11.1% year over year to $13.9 billion. Those are pretty impressive numbers. The challenge […]

July 15, 2016

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Commvault Data Protection for HyperConverged Environments

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You might remember a blog from our own Todd Brannon called “All about that BaaS” which outlined a jointly tested reference architecture for “Backup as a Service” with Commvault software. That engagement advanced Commvault to preferred solution partner status to deliver our joint customers a solution that is fully tested for compatibility with Cisco UCS servers and also […]

July 11, 2016

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There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be 1st – Cisco, IBM Speed Up Big Data Performance

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Being first definitely feels good! Once again our Cisco UCS compute family showcases its leadership capabilities with two new TPCx-HS benchmarks. Cisco was the first vendor to publish TPCx-HS (The industry’s first Big Data benchmark standard for Hadoop) results in 2015 and we continue this leadership trend today with more top tier results. Our new […]

July 7, 2016

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Elvis, HyperFlex, and Cisco Live 2016

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Cisco Live 2016 is finally here! Planning for Cisco Live this year reminds me of the many similarities between “The King” and HyperFlex. What does Cisco’s