Maggie Smith

Microsoft continues to enhance Microsoft Azure Stack. Our recent blog post detailed the ease of adding additional scale units to an existing Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack.  But the news does not stop there. Azure Stack customers have also asked for an increase in server capacity…

Planning to attend Microsoft Ignite September 24-28 in Orlando?  This event is hotter than Hamilton having sold out six weeks ahead of opening day! If you were able to get one of the golden tickets to this event, include a visit to Cisco (Booth 418) to learn how to secure your cloud journey with Cis…

Featuring guest blogger Rahul Talekar, Solutions Architect for Cisco UCS solutions. Rahul’s blog describes the best case scenerio for adding a node to an existing Azure Stack configuration- best case when deployed with Cisco UCS. Since inception Cisco Unified Computing System was developed wit…

Performance breakthroughs happen frequently, but often go under noticed. We all remember when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time and when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, but one event happened June 1, 2018 that went largely unnoticed, until now- a new TPC-H benchmark was achi…

Guest Blogger: John McAbel Senior Product Manager Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack now with M5 Skylake based hybrid storage options Just in time for summer, Cisco offers new configurations for Cisco’s Azure stack solution. These newe…

Are you planning a visit to San Francisco on May 22-24? Add Pure Accelerate to your itinerary while in the city by the bay. And be sure to visit the Cisco booth to learn about what’s new and what’s coming from Cisco for FlashStack. Here is a quick preview of Cisco’s Pure Accelerate plans as a premie…

Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack just keeps getting better. With this newest configuration, Cisco offers a wider range of storage flexibility. The all-flash option ships with solid-state drives, and NVMe PCIe composing the cache tier with 30, 45, or 60 TB of capacity per server. All…

Enterprise IT teams need to have infrastructure that runs a portfolio of workloads such as general and mission critical business, VDI, data analytics and other applications.  This means that within their data center, the optimal infrastructure delivers capacity based on the needs of the workload. Th…

Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack is shipping. Now customers can build and deliver a scalable hybrid cloud platform that consistently provides Azure services from their own data center on the system designed for the cloud: Cisco UCS. Why is this important? Cisco recognized that compl…