data center
Delivering a New and Improved Online World
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Service provider networks are at the epicenter of digitization. You need to be faster, more efficient, more focused on strategic partnering and security obsessed. Here are some suggestions for how to do it.
IDC survey: SAP HANA users say Cisco UCS is the #1 Converged Infrastructure
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“Mission Critical” is a term bandied about far too often in our industry. But in the case of SAP HANA it’s a fair description; if your core business operations backbone is not “mission critical,” what is? That’s why Cisco is excited to be a major sponsor of SAP’s SapphireNow user conference in Orlando this week. […]
Can Cloud Customers Have It All?
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Successful organizations offer optimized services and engaging customer experiences. To do this many have turned to cloud computing to achieve digital flexibility, reduced operability costs and streamlined efficiency.
Cisco GPU-Accelerated Data Center
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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, aka GTC, is around the corner and it is a good time to reflect on the rise of GPUs in the data...
3rd Annual Interoperability Testing: Converging on a Standard
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This year, a total of seven vendors participated in the VXLAN BGP EVPN interoperability testing, showing significant industry adoption year over year.
New Facebook storage platform looking more like Cisco UCS
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A few weeks ago, this year’s Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, California concluded. I personally love this event to see what all the big massive scale data center operators are doing. I have been following the program since it’s inception and unfortunately missed this year’s event but you can definitely be sure I was […]
Cisco UCS Spelunking. Exploring Cisco’s Splunk Community and Other News Bits
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Splunk is one of our key Cisco UCS ISV Partners in the area of data and analytics for the...
The Three Superpowers behind your next SAP HANA deployment
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When I started supporting enterprise application platforms at the turn of the century, the model was pretty simple: a single, huge server with expensive high-performance storage behind it. If you outgrew the storage, you could add more, and if you outgrew the server, you bought the next larger box. It was a very monolithic design, […]
OFC 2017 Demo: Cisco 400GbE Optical Module
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We’re excited to announce that Cisco will have two demonstrations of the QSFP-DD form factor at OFC 2017. The QSFP-DD standard is important because of these reasons. Read more.