unified management

June 7, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco Achieves #2 Worldwide in the x86 Blade Server Market

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Nobody thought the ‘plumbers’ could succeed in compute … The numbers are in – across the board Cisco is posting strong results and tracking unprecedented momentum in the server market.  With Cisco’s Q3 financial earnings announcement reporting 77% Y/Y growth in Data Center and now the latest IDC Server Tracker results [view UCS Advantage], Cisco […]

April 17, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Red Hat Explore Partnership for Red Hat Distribution of OpenStack (RDO)

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At the OpenStack Summit 2013, Red Hat announced RDO, a freely available, community-supported distribution of OpenStack. OpenStack is an open source cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter. In addition to the new release, Red Hat also announced today the launch of an official Cloud Infrastructure […]

April 11, 2013

DATA CENTER

Case Study: Cisco’s Private Cloud and Lessons Learned

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This is my talk I gave last week at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara. One slide that did not make the deck are the top reasons why people struggle with building private clouds Management and operations process. Culture Funding Model Service description and self-service interface As my deck says, “I got 99 problems, but the […]

February 20, 2013

DATA CENTER

Financial Management for the Enterprise Cloud

One of the most exciting things about Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (Cisco IAC) is its ability to deliver the self-service agility and flexibility that a business requires to drive its success.  Capacity is instantly available when needed, enabling creative innovation to bear fruit much faster (think research institutions executing millions of computations, software engineers […]

February 12, 2013

DATA CENTER

InterCloud Plus Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud

Cisco continues to roll out innovations that will enable the next generations of multi-cloud computing.  I’m a product manager working on Cisco’s Cloud Management software, and we’re all about the high-level, self-service, automatic provisioning of services that the end-user cares about.  The network just moves ones and zeros, and all protocols of interest (HTTP, SSH, […]

February 1, 2013

DATA CENTER

A Cloud Management Solution You Can Believe In, Or Better Yet, Bank On

Guest Blogger: Yair Dolev (@CiscoCloudY) brings extensive experience in enterprise application development and management of advanced data center virtualization technology products to Cisco’s Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group. Prior to Cisco, Yair was Director of Product Management at data center automation authority Tidal Software, and managed the groundbreaking Azul Virtual Machine products at Azul Systems, […]

January 27, 2013

DATA CENTER

Learn about Unified Management in the Data Center and Cloud Booth at Cisco Live London 2013!

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If you haven’t heard about Unified Management, it refers to our portfolio of data center and cloud management software products. Cisco’s data center and cloud management software helps our customers to deliver IT services faster, more efficiently, and with lower total cost of ownership. This year we’ve made it even easier for you to learn […]

January 22, 2013

DATA CENTER

Duct Tape for Cloud: Integration Features of Cisco Process Orchestrator and IA for Cloud

4 min read

The Cisco Process Orchestrator has very rich integration capabilities, yet we often hear the question, “Does it integrate with…” or “Does it work with” [insert product]. The Cisco Process Orchestrator is a primary component in the Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud management solution. The fact is that in modern environments with modern orchestrators the answer […]

December 11, 2012

DATA CENTER

Cloupia + Cisco Unified Management = Better Together

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Yesterday, Cisco announced that we closed on the acquisition of Cloupia.  Cloupia is now officially part of Cisco and a very exciting new addition to our Unified Management software portfolio. Ever since the news broke about Cisco’s intent to acquire Cloupia, I’ve been asked how this fits with our other data center and cloud management software products.  In short, Cloupia’s […]