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This is a guest blog by Tejas Vashi, Senior Director, Product Strategy & Marketing, Cisco Services Data rules the IT world right now – there is just so much of it.  Yet, there are often many missed opportunities when it comes to utilizing this data to extract insights and leveraging them t…

In the era of digital transformation, the ability to rapidly access and analyze data from inside and outside your company’s walls is a competitive imperative.   Because much of the so-called “hot data” is already within SAP environments, it’s no surprise that many Cisco UCS customers are adopting SA…

When you hear a statistic like ‘87 % of enterprises believe that analytics will redefine the competitive landscape of their industries within the next three years,’ two things become clear. First, we no longer need to make the business case for big data and analytics: enterprises clearly understand…

Hybrid cloud is finally here.  Since cloud came on the scene a few years back, companies have had the choice of building a private cloud, which they managed on premises, or buying services from a public cloud provider.  Typically, companies had to pick one or the other for a given application.  With…

We have a number of exciting additions to the UCS family, which we are announcing today.  Application architectures are fundamentally changing, which is driving a change to the core infrastructure.   Today, you will hear about new innovations in the area of scale-out computing, which are optimized f…

I was speaking with a customer today at VMworld and, unlike many discussions, which are focused on the infrastructure (servers, storage, networking), this one turned primarily on the application. This person was describing to me his need to match the server to a new set of applications he is being a…

FlexPod Rings in the New Year with New Solutions, Technologies, and Offerings  FlexPod had a fantastic 2013 and received tremendous recognition for industry leadership and innovation. It takes close collaborate between Cisco and NetApp and flawless execution to create this list: Best of TechEd 2013…

This month marks the three year anniversary of Cisco’s partnership with NetApp and our development of FlexPod.  Over the years, we’ve experienced some tremendous growth, more than doubling new installations year-over-year, and now we have more than 3,000 customers globally. Following the success of…