Todd Brannon
Senior Director, Computing
Cisco Data Center Marketing
Articles
Fly Fishing Anyone? Orvis Expands Online Retail Operations with Cisco Data Center Anywhere
Day 2: Today we continue our 10 Customers in 10 Days Data Center Anywhere series with Orvis. The Orvis Company is the world leader in fly fishing equipment and adventurous living, with retail and data center operations in both the U.S. and UK. “We are a true omni-channel business, and our website ma…
Ten Years Together: Celebrating a Decade of Customer Innovation with Cisco UCS
If you want to have an interesting conversation with someone, just ask them what they’re building. Everyone is building something in their personal and professional lives: families, teams, products, coalitions, solutions, bridges. And, when someone shares what they’re building, they’ll offer you a v…
Realities of the Modern Datacenter
Guest blogger: Matt Eastwood, IDC Matt is Senior Vice President of IDC’s enterprise, datacenter, cloud infrastructure and developer research groups. His responsibilities include managing market analysis, tracking, forecasting and consulting for enterprise computing, storage, networking, systems in…
Assuring Hypercritical Data with Veeam Availability Solution on Cisco HyperFlex
With Brandon Copeland: @bhcopeland Did you know that by 2025, IDC estimates that nearly 20% of data in the global datasphere will be critical to our daily lives and nearly 10% of that data will be hypercritical?1 That means data will be driving the applications we rely on every day: from the delive…
Building the Platform for Intuitive Infrastructure
Next week at CiscoLive we will begin to introduce the next evolutionary step for Unified Computing. UCS was conceived a decade ago with the ambition to tackle some of the hardest problems that existed in the data center. The architecture that emerged from that thinking has changed the shape of the…
IT Infrastructure at the Speed of FlashStack
Rapidly changing business conditions, global competition, and digital transformation projects have resulted in an increased reliance on IT to deliver positive business outcomes. Yet, many businesses continue to struggle with delivering the applications and services at the rate and speed required to…
The Power of Partnerships: powering Cisco HyperFlex
Last week at Cisco Partner Summit 2016 we celebrated the introduction Cisco HyperFlex Systems. More importantly, we gathered in San Diego to celebrate the Power of Partnerships. Cisco is an established leader in data center convergence: bringing together the people, process and technology of IT, but…
Composable Infrastructure Part 4: Infrastructure as Code
How do you treat hardware like software? That question sounds like a contradiction, but we’ve been helping customers answer this question for the past six years with Cisco UCS. When you abstract all configuration and identity of hardware and transform it into software defined infrastructure (S…
Composable Infrastructure, Part 3: “What is it??”
“Did you say compostable infrastructure? That means using a biodegradable cardboard chassis that can go in the compost bin, right?” 🙂 This conversation is more common than you think right now as people are introduced to this for the first time. So what exactly does composable infras…