Data Center

As many of you may have read on Monday in Tom Edsall’s blog post, Cisco announced our intent to put Cisco ACI into the public cloud – AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google. This allows our customers to place policy anywhere.  And now, with ACI Virtual Edge (AVE), we will continue to fulfill our ‘ACI Anyw…

Cisco will be a Gold sponsor at this years’ VMworld Conference, occupying Booth 614. In the booth, you will see the latest M5 UCS server, HyperFlex appliance, the latest analytics solutions from Cisco called Data Center Analytics and AppDynamics, the latest security and automation solutions, and Cis…

Guest Author: Mario Blandini of SwiftStack The disruption that cloud has triggered in the marketplace has many organizations looking for a deeper level of expertise and experience from their solution vendors. Cisco has long been known as the top experts in networking, and has grown in reputation as…

Intent-based Data Center Solutions for SAP Simplify Business Processes and Expedite Digital Transformation. CenturyLink and Cisco have partnered to create Intent-based Data Center Solutions for SAP.  Based on Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco/NetApp FlexPod, our unique converg…

GPUs are becoming ubiquitous in the data center. On one hand, if you’re running virtual desktops you know that modern apps and newer operating systems such as Windows 10 make use of a lot more graphic power than their predecessors. Which means that you need to provide more graphic power when you del…

Healthcare costs are rising globally and making it increasingly difficult for patients to get the care they need. In the Netherlands, one very specific non-profit organization, VECOZO, was founded to maintain cost control in the Dutch Healthcare sector. VECOZO operates the national portal for data e…

October 2017 will mark the 20-year anniversary of the world record set for the fastest automobile ever recorded – the appropriately named “ThrustSSC” that distinguished itself as the first car to ever break the sound barrier Almost two decades later, the Cisco Nexus 9516 Switch put up some serious p…

Many of you know Lauren Malhoit our incredible co-host of TechWiseTV. She asked for my help getting this blog out and who am I to say no even though you know me as the UCS/TCO blogger? There are many things we think about when considering Software Defined Networking. Mostly, it’s the controllers, a…

Cloud and software-defined technologies continue to reshape traditional data centers.  Companies turning to cloud to deliver consistent services and processes have found that they can deliver elastic, safe and flexible services at the speed and expectations of their customers.  They have also discov…