UCS

November 12, 2013

DATA CENTER

The Dirty Secrets of Server Power

3 min read

Power efficiency remains a top decision point for many customers looking to modernize their data center. Customers searching for an accurate way to compare server power among vendors are often directed to use power calculators without taking into account the many factors that drive power utilization. This notion preys on the simplistic nature of the […]

November 10, 2013

DATA CENTER

Building a Trusted SAP HANA Data Center

1 min read

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 SAP AG. Already proven enormously successful for analytics, SAP HANA now supports SAP Business Suite, SAP’s flagship enterprise resource planning […]

November 7, 2013

NETWORKING

UCS E-Series: A Platform for Innovation | Inside the Branch

1 min read

We’re in November now, so of course it’s getting chilly outside – even here in California! This means the holidays are right around the corner and retailers are gearing up for their busiest time of year. A growing trend these days is that more than half of holiday shoppers with smartphones plan to use these […]

November 4, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco and Its Partners Drive OpenStack Innovation and Adoption

3 min read

OpenStack sure has come a long way since the first Design Summit in San Antonio back in November 2010.  As my team prepares to attend OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong this week, you’d never know that just three years ago there were just 250 people at the first public OpenStack Design Summit that kicked off […]

October 30, 2013

DATA CENTER

OpenStack@Cisco – Havana release and IceHouse Summit

3 min read

Earlier in this month the OpenStack community came out with the biannual OpenStack release – Havana. According to the OpenStack Foundation, not only did Havana add close to 400 new features across Compute (Nova), Storage (Swift), Networking (Neutron) and other core services, it also provided users with more application-driven capabilities and more enterprise features.  Two […]

October 24, 2013

NETWORKING

UCS E-series Meets Applications | Inside the Branch

2 min read

Needle and thread. Fire and wood.  Peanut butter and jelly.  Just a few things that are essential together so that you can sew, keep warm and well, is just yummy.  So what happens when the data center-class server blade for the branch meets applications?  That’s the topic discussed in the 2nd episode of the Inside […]

October 18, 2013

DATA CENTER

Blade Server Architecture Comparison – Important Differences Abound

2 min read

I recently wrote a blog titled Blade Server TCO and Architecture – You Cannot Separate Them and thought a little more on the architecture side would be a good thing.  With so much misinformation (dis-information?) about UCS running around in the ether, I thought the straight forward comparison offered here would be valuable. It is […]

October 17, 2013

DATA CENTER

Now is the time to refresh to Cisco UCS!

2 min read

Intel estimates1 that one-third of the servers in production are more than four years old. At first, one might think that it is great to get this much service out of a capital investment, but the operational costs to run these outdated servers would pay for a complete technology refresh increasing performance and reliability while […]

October 17, 2013

NETWORKING

Inside the Branch: UCS E-series 101

1 min read

Recently, I was chatting with Hugo Vliegen, Director of Technical marketing, Enterprise Networks, and he was telling me all of the questions he had been getting from customers about the Cisco UCS E-Series.  Questions such as: What’s this rumor I’ve heard that Cisco has a server that sits on a branch router? You’re telling me […]