reliability

April 8, 2022

DEVELOPER

3 Reasons Enterprise Developers Should Get “Pager Duty”

3 min read

It's time to rethink who gets woken up in the middle of the night when there's an application outage. Today, both SREs and app devs should be on "pager duty."

October 20, 2015

NETWORKING

How 802.11ac Made Wireless the New Access

3 min read

In recent years, wireless has become the preferred means of access for networks. This change may be have been inevitable to some, but why did this happen? What...

January 5, 2015

NETWORKING

Miercom Report: High Availability and Real-time Applications

2 min read

The transition to 802.11ac has been swift.  Two months ago, Cisco announced crossing 1 million units sold for 802.11ac. ...

December 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

Why Upgrade to MDS 9700

6 min read

MDS 9500 family has supported customers for more than a decade helping them  through FC speed transitions from 1G, 2G, 4G, 8G and 8G advanced without forklift upgrades. But as we look in the future the MDS 9700 makes more sense for a lot of data center designs.  Top four reasons for customers to upgrade are […]

October 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

MDS 9700 Scale Out and Scale Up

3 min read

This is the final part on the High Performance Data Center Design. We will look at how high performance, high availability and flexibility allows customers to scale up or scale out over time without any disruption to the existing infrastructure.  MDS 9710 capabilities are field proved with the wide adoption and steep ramp within first year […]

September 24, 2014

DATA CENTER

Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9700 – Part III

4 min read

Note: This is the third of a three-part series on Next Generation Data Center Design with MDS 9700; learn how customers can deploy scalable SAN networks that allow them to Scale Up or Scale Out in a non disruptive way.  Part 1 | Part 2 ] This week is exciting, had opportunity to sit on round […]

August 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco MDS for Small to Cloud-Scale Data Centers

7 min read

Superior Platforms, Scale, and Operational Simplicity  Data Center trends like  Virtualization, Solid State Drives, DC consolidation and Data Explosion are putting a tremendous amount of strain on the infrastructure. These challenges need targeted and multifaceted approach. It has to be holistic solution to the problems rather than point products for each unique problem. Data Centers […]