Reflections on Leading in IT
The first time someone referred to me as a “woman leader in IT,” I was honestly caught by surprise. I had never stopped and thought about the idea that I...
SAP. HANA
New UCS Servers deliver innovative scaling options and record-breaking power
This week we’re announcing new systems at the upper end of the UCS server product line: some heavy-duty iron for heavy-duty times. These are important new tools for our UCS customers: the digital age is accelerating, IT needs more horsepower to
Cisco has entered the mission-critical application business
As you have probably noticed, the Cisco and SAP partnership keeps growing – Here is some of the recent news [] Unisys, RealTech and others install SAP HANA on Cisco UCS ” Manufacturers are struggling with the provisioning of applications
Cisco expands the SAP Competency Center in Walldorf in a big way
The Cisco SAP Competency Center expanded its presence at the SAP Partner Port in Walldorf Germany on November 11, 2013. Watch the video of Padmasree Warrior, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cisco and Vishal Sikka, CTO and
Building a Trusted SAP HANA Data Center
SAP®HANATM is a next-generation database platform for real-time analytics and applications. Although the in-memory, columnar relational database debuted only recently (in June 2011), it has quickly become the fastest growing product in the history of
Announcing Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture v2 (CPA v2) for Big Data
Also launches, Industry’s first reference architecture for Hadoop with advanced access control and encryption with IDH, first flash-enhanced reference architecture for Hadoop demonstrated using YCSB with MapR, industry’s first validated and certified
Cisco ISE and SAP Afaria: Be productive on and off the Network
Reduce the barriers to mobile productivity while making sure the corporate network is secure. Impossible? Seems like it. But that’s what the business continues to demand. SAP Afaria support for Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is a key component
What is Cisco and SAP doing together?
3 years ago Cisco entered the server platform market with the Unified Computing System (UCS). This server platform was built from the ground up for virtualization and immediately started making an impact and gaining market share. Today it holds the
Change is the only constant in data center infrastructure
By: VCE CTO Trey Layton at EMC World 2013 (@treylayton) Greek philosopher, Heraclitus said “change is the only constant in life.” And without question, change is the lifeblood to our industry and like any transition, albeit from VHS to digital