Data Center

I promised a follow up in my recent blog about Facebook’s new Bryce Canyon storage platform. While the title of this blog may sound like it questions the new platform’s capabilities. It like the previous blog aims to help you understand why it is perfectly suited for Facebook’s unique ne…

Late last year, I compared Cisco’s S3260 Storage Server to Amazon’s S3 service. The results shocked a lot of people and spurred a lot comments on the blog.…

Pressure to transform is coming from every direction:  customers, competitors, heads of departments and the C-suite.  Convert high cost manual services to lower cost automated ones.  Create development environments or place applications into multiple clouds.  Change the way employees and customers i…

Join us at DockerCon to learn how the solutions we are developing with Docker will make it easier for enterprises to adopt containers in production. Cisco is offering a hands-on lab, 1×1 meetings with experts, demos and a presentation.…

Digital transformation has created a sense of urgency to adopt “as a service” business models, such as hybrid cloud.  Hybrid cloud delivers speed and agility.  Users are empowered to deploy workloads across multiple cloud platforms.  Your business stays compliant and safe.  Business and…

There is no doubt that we are living in the Hyper Scale Data age when it comes to all things data storage related, which is impacting both consumers and companies. According to Cisco research, by the year 2020, the amount of data stored inside data centers is expected to grow by a factor of five, fr…

A few weeks ago, this year’s Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, California concluded. I personally love this event to see what all the big massive scale data center operators are doing. I have been following the program since it’s inception and unfortunately missed this year’s event but you can de…

Administrators can use now use Ansible as their common tool for configuration management, deployment, and orchestration of Cisco UCS standalone rack servers and Cisco Nexus. Ansible can help you set up infrastructure quickly and easily.…

‘…It takes a big village…’ so to speak when it comes to bringing enterprise-class big data & analytics solutions to the market. It is for this reason that our Cisco UCS team partners with several key ISVs in the big data segment be they Hadoop vendors, analytics providers, MySQL platforms, etc.…