Data Center

In this week’s episode, Nathan Sowatskey and Jacoby Thwaites discuss transactions, applications, and the network: how to reduce complexity and increase compliance by changing the transaction process. “Be careful of the unicorn.” **The next Engineers Unplugged shoot is at EMC World…

In previous blogs I have described how organizations are maturing beyond provisioning of individual servers to provisioning of richer cloud-based application stacks.  Known as platform-as-a-service (PaaS), this capability takes cloud technology beyond infrastructure to automate the application life…

Last night , at midnight PST , Microsoft ended support for Windows XP. While 12 years may seem an appropriate length of time to support a software product in today’s fast-changing world, this decision will have a major impact on the business operations of many companies whose IT infrastructure is ba…

Cisco is back at Collaborate , the great show put in place by IOUG , this year in Las Vegas April 7- 10. More and more Oracle customers benefit now from the advantages  provided by Cisco and Cisco partners for mission critical applications, not only in terms of performances but also in terms of TCO.…

The first blog of this series discussing the role of data security in the cloud can be found here. In 2014 and onward, security professionals can expect to see entire corporate perimeters extended to the cloud, making it essential to choose a service provider that can deliver the security that your…

Change is good. After a successful run of four years in Boston, Red Hat Summit moves to San Francisco this year from April 14-17. Red Hat Summit has become one of the premier open source events for the enterprise IT industry with tracks for both developers and business executives.     &nb…

Last week was a busy week in Las Vegas at another eventful Interop. In addition to our new announcements around ACI, we’ve been busy showing off our new Remote Integrated Services Engine (RISE) capability we introduced for the Nexus 7000 Series switch. Our introductory series on RISE concludes…

One of the great challenges of SDN – that many in my view underplay – is the change in paradigm from having a vendor deliver your network (hardware + software), to having (potentially) an ecosystem deliver your network – and this ecosystem may require you to develop software to perform network tasks…

Everybody has been talking about big data over the past years . Your data continues to grow, both in mass and importance. And you know that your company is in need of better analytics to use the influx of data as a point of improvement for business. As the Internet expands and connects all things pr…