Cisco Unified Computing System
Cisco Cloud ACI now utilizing Catalyst 8000v
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Cisco is introducing Cisco Cloud ACI's new usage of Catalyst 8000v for it's cloud routing capabilities, replacing CSR 1000v. The Cisco Catalyst 8000V is a software router that an enterprise or a cloud provider can deploy as a virtual machine in a provider-hosted cloud or in its own virtual environment.
Today’s Advancements in Compute Hardware Can Power the Next Generation of ‘Moonshots’
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Many computing performance advancements have been added to the latest Cisco UCS X-Series since its first iteration in 2009, thanks to the technological evolution of computer hardware in the industry today compared to yesteryear.
BossTV and Cisco Launch Innovative New TV Streaming and Content Distribution Model
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Streaming is the future, and the future is here. Cisco is providing the hardware-based firewalling, routing and video transcode infrastructure needed to support an innovative, new TV streaming platform and content distribution model from Planet Earth TV, LLC, DBA (BOSSTV) to over 176 channels of programming in Spanish, English, and Italian.
Cisco announces support for PCIe version of NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU
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The new NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU, the first elastic, multi-instance GPU that unifies data analytics, deep learning and training, inference and HPC, will support Cisco customers seeking performance and scalability with AI workloads.
Now taking orders for Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack
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We are now taking orders for Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack, offering customers a powerful cloud-ready solution that gives them full control over how they manage data, governance, security and performance. We combined Microsoft’s robust Azure cloud platform with Cisco’s UCS server platform that is designed for cloud workloads, providing customers and partners […]
Guest Post: Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) at the Core of Private Cloud
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Have you ever wondered why some organizations are more successful in delivering services and applications with serious resource constraints to its every increasing distributed workforce? Chances are the IT teams are using some variation of cloud computing to solve these and other modern day IT challenges. Private cloud serves as an enabler for organizations to deliver IT as a service (ITaaS). This makes organizations more agile and efficient through reduction of cost, economies of scale and increased efficiency. Cisco uses its innovative cloud platform to facilitate automation, virtualization and simplification to increase business value whilst reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). Cisco cloud services can be delivered using three methods: first, there is the Cisco private cloud (through internally hosted or owned infrastructure), second, through public cloud (cloud provider delivers services) and finally, a hybrid model (a mix of the previous two).
Challenging the Status Quo at FICO World 2016
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Digitalization is dramatically changing the world, especially for Financial Services. Having to go inside a branch to schedule a meeting with a finance or mortgage expert is so yesterday. Service, convenience, security and analytics through all channels. During this week in Washington D.C., Cisco is joining the world’s thought leaders and business experts at FICO […]
Cisco UCS Claims Nine World Record Benchmarks with the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 family
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Today Cisco announced support for the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 family on the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®). On the same day as the Intel announcement, Cisco captured Nine world records on industry benchmarks on Cisco UCS to highlight the way in which Cisco UCS can accelerate performance across the data center. As […]
Using best better practices with Cisco UCS Manager
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I’ve been working with Cisco UCS since the very beginning. From the earliest days, whenever a customer ran into problems, I would often be asked to help figure out what was going wrong and to help fix it. Generally, this would involve a review of the system, and when we found less desirable configurations we […]