Data Center

So you’ve decided you are going to run 2vCPU VMs in one, or all (GHAST!) of your VDI pools. Why did you decide this? Because your application is multi-threaded and you need better response times? Or simply because ((2 > 1) = TRUE) all the time? What DOES 2 vCPU VMs really get you in your VD…

In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Colin McNamara (Nexus IS, @colinmcnamara) and Joe Onisick (Insieme, @jonisick) take opposing viewpoints for the OpenStack, cage match. Let’s watch: Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know be…

So, we have the Tech Field Day crew on the Cisco campus today.  As you may now, Tech Field Day brings some of the industry’s leading bloggers together with folks like Cisco to cover the latest technology and trends. We are lucky to have the TFD team here all way and we have a number of topics…

Cisco and NetApp have been partners for over a decade, and in January we announced the planned expansion of our partnership. We are always looking to work with our partners in new ways to offer customers greater choice, and Cisco and NetApp are working toward delivering a complete platform for enter…

I have been with Cisco for more than 20 years and have seen incredible growth and change over these two decades – including hundreds of acquisitions that resulted in varying degrees of success for our business. With this recent Cloupia acquisition being strategic to data center management, I thought…

What do you get when you cross iSCSI with lossless Ethernet? A lot of confusion. I do quite a lot of presentations regarding converged networks, including Fibre Channel, whether native or over Ethernet (i.e., FCoE), iSCSI, NAS, etc. The hardest part about these presentations are combating some of th…

[Register here for the webcast: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 9:00 AM Pacific Time] If you are running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 in your virtualized data center (or plan to), you’ll want to join us for a detailed webcast on Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch for Hyper-V and the integration with Micros…

As you look at your upcoming Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, or SQL Server projects keep in mind Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) SmartPlay program. The program offers attractive pricing on select Cisco UCS blade and rack server bundles. Our Cisco UCS servers provide an optimal I.T. platform f…

Domain 7 in our Cisco Domain TenSM framework for data center transformation is what we call “Platform”.  More specifically, this term refers to the “software platform” upon which your business applications will run.  In short, this area is where we examine operating systems,…