Data Center

Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack just keeps getting better. With this newest configuration, Cisco offers a wider range of storage flexibility. The all-flash option ships with solid-state drives, and NVMe PCIe composing the cache tier with 30, 45, or 60 TB of capacity per server. All…

As our customers look for more flexibility and portability across their data center network, Cisco continues to deliver open APIs to our networking devices, integration with popular automation frameworks like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef, and programming via any set of convenient programming languages,…

If data is the new oil, there is one major difference.  Unlike oil, which over the years have suffered from unpredictable supply, for much of the customers, there is only abundance of data.  Despite the glut of data, the same customers profess there is often a shortage of actionable information.  In…

I always get giddy about going to NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), which is happening next week in San Jose. Just looking at the catalog of sessions gets me dreaming about what artificial intelligence will make possible and more importantly the business benefits that can already be derived fr…

In terms of revolutionizing key performance factors, no storage technology in the last decade has had more of an impact than flash. So it stands to reason that go-to-market models within the storage and storage networking industry have also evolved at a rapid pace.  A perfect illustration is the rec…

Cisco Intersight includes a RESTful API that supports the OpenAPI standard to provide full programmability and deep integrations with third-party tools and systems. Now partners and customers can begin to leverage this capability using the Intersight Python SDK. Guest Blogger: David Soper, Technical…

Analytics is the new source of competitive advantage.  Thomas H. Davenport, author of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning,  has been writing about analytics for over 10 years.  Unfortunately, even when I attended Cisco Live Barcelona a few weeks ago, many customers from IT are still c…

I recently read a claim that Cisco UCS cost two times as much as the next vendor which made me laugh. I work routinely with account teams on competitive deals and this isn’t my experience. And I doubt anybody would buy UCS if this were truly the case. As one of my coworkers put it, “customers aren’t…

Guest Blogger: Manan Trivedi, Big Data Solution Architect Apache Hadoop started as a framework to store and process very large data sets in a distributed manner in a cost-effective way. Initially, this distributed data processing was limited to batch processing only. More recently, tools have been d…