Data Center

September 20, 2018

DATA CENTER

Secure your journey to the cloud with Cisco and Microsoft

Planning to attend Microsoft Ignite September 24-28 in Orlando?  This event is hotter than Hamilton having sold out six weeks ahead of opening day! If you were able to get one of the golden tickets to this event, include a visit to Cisco (Booth 418) to learn how to secure your cloud journey with Cis…

September 18, 2018

DATA CENTER

Azure Stack add node simplified by Cisco UCS

Featuring guest blogger Rahul Talekar, Solutions Architect for Cisco UCS solutions. Rahul’s blog describes the best case scenerio for adding a node to an existing Azure Stack configuration- best case when deployed with Cisco UCS. Since inception Cisco Unified Computing System was developed wit…

September 18, 2018

DATA CENTER

In case you missed it, the Cisco UCS C4200 Multinode Server

On May 31st, Cisco announced the C4200 Multinode Chassis and C125 M5 server. Some of you may have been taking that week off due to Memorial Day. And I bet even more of you had the temerity to take a nice summer vacation and didn’t notice our new server. So I wanted to write another blog to catch eve…

September 11, 2018

DATA CENTER

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…

September 10, 2018

DATA CENTER

The AI Mandate: To Boldly Go Where No Data Center Has Gone Before

As technologies go, artificial intelligence is not exactly new. It’s been the fodder for fantasy and science fiction writers for decades, if not centuries. In terms of its actual, real world development, it was born at a technology conference in Dartmouth University in 1956 and has gone through a se…

September 10, 2018

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS 480 ML M5 Server – Performance and Capacity for AI

KD’s blog is a great overview of how AI has developed from the mid-50s to how it’s defining a new era of IT. I’m here to dig deeper into the hardware our customers are going to use to mine all that value out of their data. When Cisco announced our M5 servers, my favorite was the C480 M5 because of i…

September 7, 2018

DATA CENTER

Three Ways to Future-Proof Your Storage Networks for the Next Decade through an All-Flash Data Center

When Cisco and Hitachi first began working together in the storage networking industry, the total known size of the digital universe was roughly 1.5 exabytes. Today due to the hyper-growth of users, devices, and data, the world generates roughly 2.5 exabytes a day. It is no wonder why enterprises ar…

September 5, 2018

DATA CENTER

Cisco at Strata 2018: Unlock the Power of your Data with Cisco UCS

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) era has arrived. AI is one of the top priorities for enterprise IT. Organizations want to extract more intelligence from their data throughout its lifecycle, and AI enables organizations to learn from data and make better, faster decisions.…

September 3, 2018

DATA CENTER

Evolution of Cloud in Higher and Vocational Education

One of the most interesting aspects of my role at Cisco is understanding how cloud technology is being implemented across different industries. Cisco recently commissioned an independent consulting firm (Vector Consulting) to do a deep dive on how cloud was viewed and used by universities, TAFE coll…

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