Data Center

On July 10, 2017, Cisco introduced the next generation of UCS servers,UCS M5; that deliver simplicity, performance and a future-proofed design.   But along with new servers, Cisco also announced enhancements to its data center and cloud portfolio. Data centers are complex environments and forecasts…

Yesterday we announced our fifth generation of UCS servers. Today I want to take a deeper look at the M5 blade servers. Tomorrow, I’ll tackle the M5 rack servers. More! More! More! The B200 M5 Blade Server has more of everything you love. More cores, more memory, more GPUs. Based on the Intel® Xeon®…

Contributing author: Vijay Durairaj Today we are announcing our latest generation of UCS servers based on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family and 6 industry standard world record benchmarks. Since Cisco first entered the server business, we’ve been setting records and our new M5 servers are n…

Customers around the world – now 60,000 strong – rely on UCS as their platform for IT innovation and have made it the industry’s system of choice for enterprise applications including big data analytics and business applications. Today, I’m very pleased to introduce another milestone in the UCS jour…

In this new digital economy, data is king and storing it requires a well-funded army. At least it does when you maintain the status quo with legacy storage solutions. In this scenario, cost and complexity often impede a business’s ability to scale and adapt to these new digital demands. This signals…

Workloads are forecasted to grow 26% over the next three years.   Yet the business is only funding increases of 3% to IT budgets.  How will your business address this gap? Organizations are turning to automation, digitalization of processes and intent-based analytics to support year over year worklo…

IDC recently released their latest data on the Converged Systems space, vendor revenue grew 4.6% YoY in calendar Q1 of this year.  This is impressive considering the server market dipped moderately prior to the next wave of technology refreshes coming this summer. Cisco UCS: It’s not a server. It’s…

Henry Tam is Sr Product Marketing Manager for F5’s Cloud Solutions and BIG-IP application delivery controller (ADC) platforms (hardware and software). Henry is responsible for the outbound marketing and go to market strategy of these solutions. We are publishing this Blog on behalf of Henry. T…

Cisco recently announced a major customer milestone in our data center portfolio with the news that the Unified Computing System topped more than 60,000 active customers, from literally zero in 2009. Other parts of our data center portfolio are doing just as well as we discussed in our most recent e…