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Case Study: Cisco’s Private Cloud and Lessons Learned
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, ̶…
Self-Service Arrives to Workload Automation. Have Your Users Paint Your Fence.
Self-Service Arrives to Workload Automation. Have Your Users Paint Your Fence. It’s close to 11 p.m. on the last day of the quarter. And I.T. gets an urgent request to post-pone a closing of the books process because there’s a large order stuck in the CRM system. This means that it won’t hit the bo…
Tidal Enterprise Scheduler, now with native support for MapR HDFS
Now available for existing customers of Tidal Enterprise scheduler with native support for MapR. Why is this big news? It means that workloads can now move between existing FTP, S3 buckets, ERP, Business intelligence and Hadoop HDFS to MapR’s version of HDFS. From Allan’s blog: A few mon…
Duct Tape for Cloud: Integration Features of Cisco Process Orchestrator and IA for Cloud
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…
Cisco IAC Availability, Scalability, and Geographic Distribution
When building a cloud, scale it out. Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud architecture and topology options enable scalability, availability, and geographic distribution. This white paper discusses several options, their strengths and uses, and the technical details underlying these options.” Cisc…