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June 11, 2015

DATA CENTER

Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 6: Highlights from Cisco Live — Top Insights from Platfora

3 min read

Our last but not least guest blog on “Why I Love Big Data Partner Series” is up! If you are on your way back home from Cisco Live, this would be a great read for your commute. Rob Rosen from Platfora will take us through how easy it is to uncover previously hidden threats with […]

June 11, 2015

DATA CENTER

The era of the partnership: F5 Networks and Cisco

2 min read

This guest blog is written by Nathan Pearce of F5 Networks. Nathan Pearce draws from over 20 years experience across numerous technologies and verticals, has held positions managing enterprise infrastructure, in vendor engineering, consulting, product management and marketing strategy. Pearce joined F5 Networks in 2006, is currently focused on Cloud and SDN go-to-market, is an […]

June 3, 2015

DATA CENTER

Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 2: Reduced Downtime, Happier Customers and Improved TCO with SAP, Hortonworks and Cis …

3 min read

Following the Hortonworks Blog, we are lucky to have James Gold from SAP as next blogger in the Why I love Big Data guest partner series. James explains how customers experience is greatly improved via predictive maintenance in a connected factory. James Gold, Director, Global Technology Partner Marketing, SAP SE Jim is an enterprise software veteran who’s […]

May 13, 2015

DATA CENTER

Discovering Application-Server-Network Dependencies to Facilitate ACI and Application Migration

3 min read

Earlier this month, I blogged about the challenges of Cloud Sprawl.  Let’s now turn to the challenges of “Application Sprawl”!If you are planning migration of applications inside or between data centers, or if you are planning a migration to Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), the understanding of your applications and how they tie to the […]

May 5, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco Innovation Highlights Microsoft Ignite

2 min read

Today at Microsoft Ignite, Cisco continues to prove out our commitment to delivering the best data center and networking infrastructure solutions for the Microsoft portfolio. The proof comes in the form of new Cisco innovations that we committed to deliver as part of our joint multi-year go-to-market agreement with Microsoft in July 2014. Building on […]

April 30, 2015

CLOUD

ACI. Counting down to Ignite…

1 min read

Springtime is a heavy tech show season.  This week in Las Vegas, we won Best of Interop in the SDN category with the APIC.  Next week we...

April 20, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco at Microsoft Ignite 2015. We’re getting the cloud back together…

1 min read

Cisco and Microsoft’s relationship is growing stronger year over year. Our technologies, products, and integrated infrastructure solutions continue to provide an optimum Data Center for your

April 20, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Myth-busting: Is Cisco’s Approach to SDN Open?

1 min read

In our continuing myth-busting series, Cisco SDN expert Frank D’Agostino and I are debunking trendy technology myths around SDN. The more I speak to customers these days, the more I hear them talk about open. Customers want an infrastructure that is programmable and based on open standards. They want rapid feature integration and network automation. […]

March 31, 2015

DATA CENTER

ACI – Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure for Microsoft System Center, Windows Azure Pack and More

1 min read

From the beginning Microsoft has been a strategic partner with Cisco in the development of our Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) technologies and solutions. In fact Cisco...