containers

February 26, 2016

DATA CENTER

Changes, Part 2 – So, What Do We Do With That?

3 min read

Last week, in part 1 of this 3 part series, we discussed how Digitization* is driving change. We also covered how Changes (cue** David Bowie) are manifesting themselves in...

February 19, 2016

DATA CENTER

Changes, Part 1 – David Bowie, Containers and Cisco Live Berlin

4 min read

On January 10, David Bowie passed away. He was an icon in the music world, with a career spanning 5 decades, and selling 140 million albums, with many going to...

December 4, 2015

DATA CENTER

Top 3 Ways New ACI Innovations Improve Your Data Center

3 min read

Yesterday, Cisco announced a new software release for ACI. If you are looking to automate IT, or build out your cloud environment, and want to do so in an open fashion...

November 11, 2015

DATA CENTER

Project Contiv – Infrastructure Operational Policy Specification for Containerized Application Deployment

3 min read

One of the biggest disruptions in the IT world is upon us.  10 years ago it was server virtualization, more recently the adoption of cloud – both private and public.  One could argue that cloud adoption is still ongoing. But I think a more fundamental disruption is happening with the way applications are going to be built, deployed and […]

November 5, 2015

CLOUD

Microservices Infrastructure – Mantl – Release 0.4

7 min read

During the OpenStack Summit last week, we released Mantl 0.4. In this blog I would like to go into more details about the release. But first I’d like to start by explaining what Mantl is – and what it is not. System Integration as Open Source Mantl is a layered stack that takes care of […]

October 15, 2015

DATA CENTER

Composable Infrastructure, Part 2: What are the Benefits?

2 min read

We recently sat down with IDC analyst, Jed Scaramella, to talk about an interesting and accelerating trend in data center technology: composable infrastructure. With UCS M-Series servers, Cisco has taken an important step forward in this space. To help frame things up, we asked Jed for his take on the market drivers and customer needs […]