Bill Shields

Servers exist to run applications that solve business, technical, and scientific problems. Some applications benefit from clock speed improvements while others benefit from additional memory. Cisco UCS servers – now updated with 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors – provide b…

The amount of data being generated and stored is only getting bigger. You need more memory and better performance to quickly extract actionable intelligence. What if there was a way to supersize your server memory capacity? Even better, what if that memory was not only fast, but persistent? Persiste…

On May 31st, Cisco announced the C4200 Multinode Chassis and C125 M5 server. Some of you may have been taking that week off due to Memorial Day. And I bet even more of you had the temerity to take a nice summer vacation and didn’t notice our new server. So I wanted to write another blog to catch eve…

KD’s blog is a great overview of how AI has developed from the mid-50s to how it’s defining a new era of IT. I’m here to dig deeper into the hardware our customers are going to use to mine all that value out of their data. When Cisco announced our M5 servers, my favorite was the C480 M5 because of i…

  Today, guest blogger Nikul Sheth, Sr. Product Manager for Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect writes about our new 4th gen fabric.   Accelerating from a Unified Foundation Our next evolution of Cisco UCS Fabric provides customers with greater speed and flexibility to help you maintain your co…

I’ve been a big fan of automation almost since I discovered computers many years ago. It is my favorite thing about Cisco UCS. Today, guest blogger: Olli Walsdorf, Technical Marketing Engineer, discusses using Ansible with UCS. Olli has more than 20 years of storage experience, working in different…

KD’s (VP, Product Mgt.) blog discusses why Cisco is now offering a multinode rack server. The short answer to why is the increasing need to support scale out, compute intensive workloads which require increased node density in a small form factor. I’m here to dig a little deeper into the hardware. T…

I recently read a claim that Cisco UCS cost two times as much as the next vendor which made me laugh. I work routinely with account teams on competitive deals and this isn’t my experience. And I doubt anybody would buy UCS if this were truly the case. As one of my coworkers put it, “customers aren’t…

Many of you know Lauren Malhoit our incredible co-host of TechWiseTV. She asked for my help getting this blog out and who am I to say no even though you know me as the UCS/TCO blogger? There are many things we think about when considering Software Defined Networking. Mostly, it’s the controllers, a…