UCS

November 22, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Intel on Hyperconvergence and HyperFlex

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  Cisco’s UCS portfolio has grown significantly over the past few months. Just recently we announced our new storage server brand, the S Series. Before that, a few months earlier, we brought to market HyperFlex Systems, Cisco’s complete hyperconverged infrastructure offering engineered on Cisco UCS. Intel has been by our side for each of these […]

November 15, 2016

DATA CENTER

“P” is for Performance… The new Cisco UCS S3260 has plenty of it!

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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 address the needs of data intensive workloads such as Big Data, and for deploying software-defined storage, […]

November 9, 2016

DATA CENTER

Do you need more storage but fewer servers?

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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. Yes, I’m going to try and sell you fewer servers. 2RU rackmount server […]

November 3, 2016

DATA CENTER

Green Cloud bets on Cisco UCS S-Series to power new lines of business

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Size matters—especially as physical data center space becomes more coveted at premium prices. So why wouldn’t you pack more into less, for less, if you could? That’s the approach that Green Cloud Technologies is taking with its investment in Cisco UCS S-Series storage-optimized servers. Green Cloud sells infrastructure and disaster recovery as a service, and […]

November 1, 2016

DATA CENTER

Introducing UCS S-Series: Data Unstored

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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 historically been a challenge to do in an economical and manageable way as data […]

August 25, 2016

DATA CENTER

Vegas Street Performers, HyperFlex, and VMworld

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    VMworld 2016 US is finally here! In a town known for hype, HyperFlex is proving to be the real deal....

August 19, 2016

DATA CENTER

Introducing FlashStack 5000-user VDI deployment with Cisco and Pure Storage

3 min read

Digital business transformation is driving renewed interest in desktop and app virtualization as a mean to provide secure application and desktop delivery to a mobile, distributed and fluctuating workforce. Keeping the desktops and apps securely centralized in the data center provides many benefits. It eases the headache associated with managing thousands of desktops, keeps your […]

July 6, 2016

CLOUD

Red Hat Summit 2016: What You May Have Missed

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In case you missed the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, it was most certainly an event well-worth attending …. there was even a wedding! Yes, that is not a typo. During the second day general session, Red Hat held an actual wedding ceremony. If you needed any tangible sign to convince yourself of the […]

June 27, 2016

DATA CENTER

Visualize the Future of IoT at the Esri User Conference

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Guest blogger: AnnMarie Link, Global Strategic Partner Marketing Manager, Cisco  When you think about the future of IoT, can you visualize the impact it will have on the world around us? Picture a world where everything is connected, with data from everywhere organized, analyzed, and acted upon within a fraction of a second. But what really […]