Data Center

The designation “Big Data” has become a mainstream buzz phrase across many industries as well as research circles. However, today many vendors are making performance claims that are not easily verifiable in the absence of a neutral industry-wide benchmark. [The situation is not a lot dif…

Check out our new “on-demand” webinar: Big Data Essentials: Don’t Let Your Sandbox Turn to Quicksand What you will learn: How to manage data as an asset and transform data into business value. Why Big Data projects fail and how to avoid common pitfalls. How to optimize a Big Data supply chain. What…

Well Cisco has done it. I have worked in IT since 1995 and never learned programming. Sure, I can do a little HTML, and years ago, I learned just enough Perl to configure MRTG, but I have never written a program. The good old CLI has kept me very busy and brought home the bacon. With the announcemen…

I’m excited to announce the recent release of our next-generation service catalog software, Cisco Prime Service Catalog version 10.0. (Click here for a larger image.) As previously introduced in my colleague Song’s blog post, Cisco Prime Service Catalog is an industry-leading IT service catalog sol…

In this episode of Engineers Unplugged, Michael Letschin (@mletschin) and Hans De Leenheer (@hansdeleenheer) discuss the history behind software defined and predictions for what the future holds for applications and developers. If hardware is an enabler and not a limit, what then? How does this impa…

It’s no secret that Fabric-based infrastructure appeals to the ‘here-and-now’ – and for some – the future, of computing because of “one-time setup” capabilities and ability to scale to larger compute needs as they arise. A single, unified fabric and solid-state memory c…

At the heart of the transition to cloud computing is on-demand provisioning of a wide variety of applications, linear scalability of resources, and non-stop operation at lower total cost. With the increasing frequency of rapid provisioning of data-intensive applications in the cloud, organizations a…

As you may have seen in the announcement on December 17th, Cisco along with its partners Citrix and Desktone by VMware, are announcing our joint solutions for Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS).  Clearly our customers demand choice and flexibility in how they choose to implement desktop virtualization, not…

Build & Price has recently announced the launch of new content for UCS Director. The launch offers new ways to explore the features of UCS Director via Webinars, Whitepapers & Videos.(Learn more: UCS Director on Build & Price) Webinars: I think that webinars on UCS Director are an excell…