data center
The Value Cisco Brings to Tableau
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Guest Blog by Ron Graham Ron Graham had served as a Data Center Architect and Systems Engineer for some of the largest IT companies in the U.S. including Cisco Systems, NetApp, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. He is currently working for Cisco Systems as a Big Data Analytics Engineer. What is Data Virtualization? Our definition is: Agile data […]
Capitalizing on Your Evolved Programmable Network through Faster and More Efficient Cloud Services Delivery
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SDN (Software Defined Networking) and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) technologies are expected to help Service Providers gain new efficiencies and previously unimagined speed and agility in cloud services delivery so they can seize new business opportunities and achieve continued growth. Specifically, SDN in the data center helps you abstract services and applications from the complexities […]
Make The World A Better Place – Simplify and Automate Your Data Center
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Last week, I wrote about Cisco’s SDN Strategy for the Data Center. I’d like to follow that up with 2 comments today. A reminder of the fact that...
ITD: Load Balancing, Traffic Steering & Clustering using Nexus 5k/6k/7k/9k
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Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is an innovative solution to bridge the performance gap between a multi-terabit switch and gigabit servers and appliances. It is a hardware based multi-terabit layer...
What is Cisco’s SDN Strategy for the Data Center?
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Cisco has a broad spectrum of customers across a wide range of markets and geographies. These customers have a diverse set of requirements, operational models and use cases, meaning that...
Why not Initiate a “Save to Invest” Program for your Data Center? (Part 1)
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As a Scot, I have a natural predisposition – almost a gene – for money saving initiatives! As I’ve been researching new initiatives in my work for Cisco Services over the past few months, I’ve become aware of – for the first time I am ashamed to say in some cases – some huge sinks […]
The Long Road to the Cloud – Changes in Application Deployment Criteria
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In today’s world as more and more customers prepare to take advantage of cloud technologies, they are finding that private cloud and colocation services are essential options in their journey to the cloud. We are lucky to have Dan Harrington, as a guest blogger. Dan is a Research Director covering Datacenter trends at 451 Research. […]
Pssst, IT Operations Analytics Is Actually Cool
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OK, using data to make decisions to streamline operations is not a new concept, but the resources and types of data that we have at our disposal is unprecedented. Gone are the days when we had to rely on data only available in the data center. There are new exciting ways to sift through terabytes […]
ITD: Learn how to deploy ITD in 10 minutes
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ITD (Intelligent Traffic Director) is being deployed by a large number of customers, and it is saving them massive CAPEX and OPEX, while providing unprecedented scale and high availability....
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