IBC 2017: Cloudian, Cisco, and Important Trends in Media Storage
Cisco has expanded our partnership with the fabulous folks at Cloudian, who are building ways for content providers to use S3 for private cloud access.
Storage
Democratizing Data Center Storage ¡Viva la Storage Revolución!
History regularly repeats itself. Sometimes it’s exciting and other times not so much. A current market transition I’m excited about happens to be occurring across the entire data center touching compute, storage, and networking. It’s the shift
“P” is for Performance… The new Cisco UCS S3260 has plenty of it!
Earlier this month we introduced our new Cisco UCS S-Series Storage Servers, with the S3260 being first in market. The S Series is a new storage-optimized server category in the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS) portfolio designed specifically to
Do you need more storage but fewer servers?
Last week, I discussed the economics of on-premises storage using the S3260 Storage Server vs. the cloud. Net net, the S3260 is 56% less expensive. Today, I wanted to talk about server consolidation of multiple 2RU rackmount servers on to a S3260.
Introducing UCS S-Series: Data Unstored
I frequently meet with customers who are trying to “unstore” more of their data, use it in real time, and unlock the latent value that’s contained there. In many ways this is the heart of digital transformation…but it’s also something that’s
Active Data Demands Agile Infrastructure
By now, we’ve all heard the estimate that by 2020, 50 billion devices will be connected. Some estimates are higher, some lower, but we can all agree…it’s a lot. What we know and can see is that more data is being generated today than ever
Understanding the Cost Premium of Public Cloud for Active Data
If you’ve read any of my past blogs, you’ll know I focus a lot on the economic impact of Cisco UCS. Today I’m comparing the TCO of hosting data intensive workloads on-prem vs. in the public cloud. What started out as a 2RU rackmount consolidation
Commvault Data Protection for HyperConverged Environments
You might remember a blog from our own Todd Brannon called “All about that BaaS” which outlined a jointly tested reference architecture for “Backup as a Service” with Commvault software. That engagement advanced Commvault to preferred solution partner
The Power of Partnerships: powering Cisco HyperFlex
Last week at Cisco Partner Summit 2016 we celebrated the introduction