data center
What You Can Do In Ten Minutes
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The pace of change around us is no longer constant. It is continually accelerating. We all want to get and consume information, services, and just about anything instantly. My new coffeemaker brews me a fresh cup in just a couple of minutes, but it usually takes me ten minutes just to collect up the tools […]
Life in the Fast Lane – The New Cisco UCS C3260 Rack Server
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co-written with Richard Jacobik Cisco recently started shipping the newest member to the UCS family – the storage-optimized UCS C3260 Rack Server. Data centers these days are bursting at the seams with unstructured data from new emerging applications and services. According to IDC, 80% of data is unstructured and continues to grow at a 16.2% […]
Data Centers: Applications, Networks and Chicken-Salad Sandwiches
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You’ve seen the data points: 30 million new devices connected to the Internet each week. A whopping 50 billion connected by 2020. This surge of connectivity – driven largely by...
What Du Can Do With ACI
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It seems people sometimes have this view of SDN as addressing rather esoteric use cases and situations. However, the reality is that while there are instances of ‘out there stuff’...
Thinking Bigger! Cisco + IBM – Collaboration of giants brings industry-leading solution for big data analytics
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In December 2014, we announced VersaStack, an integrated infrastructure reference solution for enterprise applications that combines technologies from Cisco and IBM. Further extending this partnership, today we are announcing support for IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop on our Cisco UCS Integrated infrastructure for Big Data – an industry-leading platform widely adapted for enterprise big data application deployments. The joint […]
Danske Bank: Our 1000th Cisco ACI Customer!
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A little over a year ago, we began shipping Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). Yesterday, Chuck Robbins tweeted that we hit our 1000th customer – Danske...
Part 2: Why not Initiate a “Save to Invest” Program for your Data Center?
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Two weeks ago, in my previous blog, I invited you to consider ways in which you could initiate a “Save to Invest” program for your data center. That is, how can you save money from your current data center spend, in order to re-invest it into currently un- or -under-funded areas of your data center. Thanks to […]
Cisco and Platfora Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise Scale Analytics
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Analytics will continue to take center stage as the volume of data generated by embedded systems increases and vast pools of structured and unstructured data within and outside the enterprise are analyzed. — Gartner Big Data will continue to be important, but it’s critical to first understand how businesses can quickly gather relevant insights from […]
Enhancing the Splunk experience with Cisco UCS
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According to scientists, the age of smartphones has left humans with such a short attention span that even a goldfish can hold a thought for longer. On an average, human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in year 2000 to 8 seconds in today’s smart-world. What does this mean for Splunk Enterprise ?