data center

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TechEd Australia kicks off today and the Cisco team is on hand to showcase how Cisco and Microsoft are teaming to develop integrated solutions that are enabling new levels of IT innovation in the data centre. Make sure to come by booth #56/57 to speak with Cisco experts about how the Cisco Unified Computing System […]

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Krones boosts production efficiency in data center and executes safe migration from RISC platforms for mission-critical applications Here’s a great story about the Machinery and Engineering company Krones Group, out of Neutraubling, Germany. The company manufactures machinery and complete plants for process, bottling, and packaging technology. Millions of bottles, cans, and specially shaped containers are […]

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To learn more about Application Centric Infrastructure, join us for a special webcast with John Chambers and Soni Jiandani on November 6th at 10:30 am EST/7:30 pm PST/15:30 GMT. Register here I want to address some questions about VMware’s NSX virtual networking announcement that have been asked of us by the media and social Web commentators […]

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When customers talk about why they like UCS they often sum it up in very concise terms. “It makes things a lot easier,” is a common refrain. But if you ask a Cisco technologist what’s good about UCS you’ll get a much more lengthy reply, probably more than you wanted to hear. 🙂 That’s because […]

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vPath, a Cisco innovative technology developed within Cisco Nexus 1000V, has been shipping for more than 2 years, enabling customers to seamlessly create policy-based multi-tenant / multi-container Data Centers across multiple hypervisor environment. Increasingly, customers are implementing network services into their virtualization and cloud networks in order to meet regulatory, security and service levels. To […]

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Cisco celebrated OpenStack’s 3rd birthday recently by releasing the Cisco OpenStack Installer for Grizzly. This blog post has more details. The OpenStack foundation organizes a four-day OpenStack Summit every six months for contributors, enterprise users, service providers, application developers and ecosystem members. It facilitates the community to gather, discuss and present on several different streams ranging from […]

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Deploying new servers is a routine task in data centers. Whether it is tied to server refreshes, net new compute initiatives or to an expansion of existing compute capacity, adding new servers can be a time consuming activity for IT personnel.  This server deployment process has historically been very manual, with many solutions requiring: Multiple […]

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As data center operations managers and business owners analyze their budgets to uncover economic headwinds, the importance of deriving ROI from each purchase and initiative is considered. To better understand the costs and benefits of the Cisco Secure Data Center Solution, we engaged with analyst firm Forrester to interview and study one of our customer’s […]

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