OCP

October 18, 2022

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Mass-Scale Infrastructure Innovations to Benefit Cloud Providers

5 min read

New 800G innovations to deliver sustainable and economical networking for cloud providers.

November 12, 2021

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco and SONiC

2 min read

On November 9th and 10th, we had the opportunity to showcase our commitment at the 2021 Open Compute Project Global Summit with a demo scaling a next generation data center with SONiC VXLAN on the Cisco 8000 for customers wanting a fully integrated system with the silicon, platform, and IOS-XR from Cisco, or wants to run SONiC on Cisco hardware (Cisco 8000), or wants a Silicon only offering.

April 17, 2017

DATA CENTER

Is Facebook’s new storage platform performance hungry?

4 min read

I promised a follow up in my recent blog about Facebook’s new Bryce Canyon storage platform. While the title of this blog may sound like it questions the new platform’s capabilities. It like the previous blog aims to help you understand why it is perfectly suited for Facebook’s unique needs. The first blog was focused […]

February 6, 2017

DATA CENTER

What do Cisco UCS S-Series and Facebook’s Open Vault both have in common?

4 min read

Everyone these days seems to want to operate like the massive scale data center operators or at least capitalize on the economies of scale they created in their wake. It’s a familiar trickle-down economics idea that sounds great on paper but doesn’t always operationalize well for the rest of the world. In the case of […]

February 9, 2014

OPEN AT CISCO

Open Daylight Shines in Impressive Debut

1 min read

First Open Daylight Summit took place exactly one year since we’ve started the project, to the day! Ah, those memories of having to stay quietly patient, from our first meeting, February 4th, 2013, and longer… in hindsight, talking about it after the code actually started to flow was more appropriate, the 2013 Spring Equinox, as it should. The Open […]