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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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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