Data Center

When it comes to leadership in the SDN marketplace, clearly there is one winner. And that is, Cisco ACI. The proof is in customer momentum numbers. Cisco ACI has 2700+ ACI customers and a rapidly growing ecosystem of 65 technology partners. ACI ecosystem partners come from a broad spectrum of L4/L7,…

In several parts of the world December 6 is a day that especially children look forward to:  It’s St. Nicholas Day and children hope to be on St. Nicholas’ good side to receive a small gift. If you want to read more about the different activities to celebrate St Nicholas Day, you can learn more abou…

Over the past few years, I’ve attended Gartner’s Data Center Conference in London (see 2013, 2014, and 2015 !). As always, it was a very informative couple of days with some surprises, and one or two “I knew that would happen” moments – we’ll I like to think that…

Since CloudCenter makes it easy to add AWS to your data center-based hybrid cloud service offerings, and automate deploy and manage of applications, I thought a “Top 10” list was in order. Register for the Dec 15th live demo webinar that will highlight these features. CloudCenter is an application-c…

Well we just opened up a hornet’s nest didn’t we?! Our recent announcement of the new Cisco UCS S-Series Storage Server definitely caused a stir in the industry. We launched into the emerging scale out storage market with a broad ecosystem of solution partners backed by amazing customers like Cirrit…

  Cisco’s UCS portfolio has grown significantly over the past few months. Just recently we announced our new storage server brand, the S Series. Before that, a few months earlier, we brought to market HyperFlex Systems, Cisco’s complete hyperconverged infrastructure offering engineered on Cisc…

In a recent cybersecurity study, Gartner reported that data center protection is the foundation of digital business and innovation.  With organizations embracing digital business, they need to address the lack of directly owned IT infrastructure and the prevalence of services outside of IT’s c…

Earlier this month we introduced our new Cisco UCS S-Series Storage Servers, with the S3260 being first in market. The S Series is a new storage-optimized server category in the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS) portfolio designed specifically to address the needs of data intensive workloads suc…

Hi again! Many of you are looking to refresh your current hardware, deploying your first or second cluster of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). You are likely starting with a VDI project, virtualized infrastructure in a branch office or perhaps a cluster of applications for a specific department…