data center
Cisco UCS Five Years On: The Right Solution at the Right Time
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I knew we were on to something good when a customer told me “This is so easy, it’s CTO proof.” Early in the business, I was talking to a front-line server admin who had found that Cisco UCS made server deployment so reliable, automated and simple that he was convinced even his CTO could pull […]
Market Dynamics and Cisco’s Unified Computing System
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Innovation. Change. Market transitions. This is the natural order when it comes to IT. Today’s accelerated rate of technological change is disrupting all areas of IT, while at the same time creating new possibilities for our data center customers. As a CIO, you’re tasked with capitalizing on the benefits of new technologies to enhance operations, […]
Finding the “PERFECT” Cloud Service Provider With Cisco
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Selecting the right cloud service provider for your company requires more than just browsing through prospective cloud vendors’ websites and reading about them online. How do you decide which vendor to trust for the performance, reliability, and security you need? Whether you are in the process of migrating to the cloud or a current cloud […]
CHAOS (Control Havoc and Overhaul Security): The new Order for IT
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Mobility and the cloud have changed how we work, transforming pockets of downtime into bursts of productivity, with easy access to our most valued information and people. But this transformation has unleashed havoc. Security practices built on decades-old assumptions of placing controls at key points in the infrastructure won’t work in today’s hyper-connected application and […]
…And The Momentum Continues! New Nexus Data Center Innovations AND Customer Deployments!
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You probably have already heard that during CiscoLive Milan, we have unveiled the new additions to our Data Center and Cloud networking portfolio: New Nexus 7706 and a high density F3 Series 1/10G module for Nexus 7700 provide increased deployment options for data center interconnect, core or aggregation. The next generation Nexus 5600 family offers VXLAN […]
Join the Conversation: Cisco and Forrester Webcast
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Cloud is changing the way businesses deploy and manage IT and business services. Industry analysts estimate that by the end of 2014, four out of 10 companies will have deployed a private cloud. But where do you start? Join Cisco and Forrester on February 18th, for this live webcast entitled: Cloud Management: It’s More than […]
The Evolution of IT Process Automation: A Move Toward Service-Oriented Orchestration
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Let’s talk about Cisco Process Orchestrator. We recently released version 3.0 — and there are a lot of exciting features that have been introduced with this new release of our IT Process Automation (ITPA) / Run Book Automation (RBA) software. Cisco Process Orchestrator is the foundational engine on which Cisco has built a number of data center-, […]
OpenDaylight Unleashes Hydrogen to the Masses
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The OpenDaylight Project today announced that its first open source software release Hydrogen is now available for download. As the first simultaneous code release cross-community it has contributions across fifty organizations and includes over one million lines of code. Yes. ODL > 1MLOC. For those of you interested that’s approximately two hundred and thirty man-years of […]
“Has Hybrid Cloud Arrived? Part 2: Cisco InterCloud makes hybrid cloud real !
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In my last blog, “Has Hybrid Cloud Arrived? Part 1: And How Will it Shape the Role of IT Going Forward?” we looked at the business drivers of a hybrid cloud and previewed the key requirements. In this blog, we will look at Cisco InterCloud – a hybrid cloud solution, we announced this week at […]