OpenStack
Speaking proposal submissions for OpenStack Summit – Voting is Open!
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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 […]
Celebrating 5 Year Anniversary of Cisco Nexus 1000V Launch
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Today marks an important milestone for one of our most strategic data center products and the foundation of virtual networking portfolio. Five years ago, the Nexus 1000V virtual switch...
#EngineersUnplugged S3|Ep8: Continuous Delivery and Software Defined Everything
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Welcome to another exciting episode of Engineers Unplugged! This week, Colin McNamara (NEXUS IS @colinmcnamara) and Jay Cuthrell (VCE @qthrul) talk methodology and the evolution from linear to continuous delivery. How do software cycles impact the software defined world? Trend or next gen? You decide. This is a great look inside the process, complete with […]
OpenStack at Cisco Live in Orlando
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As part of the Cisco Open Network Environment approach, there’s a lot of news coming out of Orlando from this year’s Cisco Live US event, and a lot of it involves OpenStack. OpenStack has never been more prominent at Cisco Live – and there’s much more to come. This is significant not only because it […]
It’s A Great Time for Open Source and Cisco UCS Customers
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Witnessing the advent and momentum of Open Source into the broader enterprise, and “the mainstream” Data Center, has been incredible. Many will look back and recall a time when Open Source was met first with a look of confusion, and following not too far behind, a reaction of fear. With that, consider how far we’ve […]
Red Hat Summit, Nexus 1000V and All Things Open
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This week kicked off with a trip to Boston and Red Hat Summit where Cisco is talking about our partnership with Red Hat on open source projects including OpenStack, and the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. I’m here to highlight some of our Nexus 1000V virtual networking innovations that involve Red Hat open source distributions […]
Building a Better Data Center with Cisco UCS Solutions, Join us at Red Hat Summit to Hear How
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Maybe you’re like me, looking for any excuse to hop on a plane to Boston! In this case, I happen to have a good one, Red Hat Summit, which kicks off on June 11th. Cisco is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor for the event and we’re showing up in full force with a […]
Cisco UCS in the world of open source computing
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A few weeks ago, I was at Cisco Open Source Conference 2013 – a conference hosted by Cisco where we had speakers from IBM, Canonical, Red Hat and Rackspace, among others. I learned a lot, specifically about the evolution of Hadoop and the OpenStack project. As a follow on, I collated different activities around Cisco […]
#EngineersUnplugged S2|Ep13: Software Defined Data Center + Cloud
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In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Bas Raayman from EMC and Caroline Orloff from ServiceMesh take on “what is the software defined data center and how is it like/different from the cloud”? Let’s watch and see what they conclude: Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, […]