Data Center

By: VCE CTO Trey Layton at EMC World 2013     (@treylayton) Greek philosopher, Heraclitus said “change is the only constant in life.” And without question, change is the lifeblood to our industry and like any transition, albeit from VHS to digital, from board games to mobile apps, or even dare I sa…

The Transaction Processing Performance Council today announced its fifth international Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2013). I’ve the great privilege of chairing TPCTC  series since 2009. This year’s conference will be collocated with the 39th International Confer…

A new white paper from IDC discusses how converged infrastructure solutions from Cisco and EMC, through VCE, can enable IT organizations to deploy a highly virtualized, highly efficient computing infrastructure. For those new to the converged systems topic, VCE was formed by Cisco and EMC to build c…

Nothing makes a product marketeer’s job easier than when customers send in their own video testimonials about how successful they have been using our products. Today’s video comes all the way from one of my favorite cities in the world, Buenos Aires. Martin Cabrera and Fernando Vicens, D…

Over 200 attendees were present for the opening of two different Co-Innovate Labs (COIL) recently. The COIL is charged with accelerating co-innovation within the SAP partner ecosystem. This lab is part of the company’s global R&D network and it offers a hands-on environment for SAP, partn…

Cisco’s server power engineering team recently compared the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis with B200 M3 blade servers against HP’s BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure and HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blade servers.…

If you’re looking for Cisco in the cloud next week, you’ll have your choice of events. The source of all of this cloud knowledge, Las Vegas. Who knew that was where the cloud started? #EMCworld #CiscoEMCW First up, Cisco Data Center Cloud team can be found at EMC World, Booth 401, at The…

In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Bas Raayman from EMC and Caroline Orloff from ServiceMesh take on “what is the software defined data center and how is it like/different from the cloud”? Let’s watch and see what they conclude: Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, wh…

On April 17th, 2013 Cisco announced SPECjbb2013 results with the Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server delivering top SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM 2-socket x 86 performances. Cisco’s results on the SPECjbb®2013 benchmark—41,954 maximum Java operations (max-jOPS) and 16,545 critical Java operations (critical-jOPS)—…