Data Center

July 11, 2016

DATA CENTER

There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be 1st – Cisco, IBM Speed Up Big Data Performance

Being first definitely feels good! Once again our Cisco UCS compute family showcases its leadership capabilities with two new TPCx-HS benchmarks. Cisco was the first vendor to publish TPCx-HS (The industry’s first Big Data benchmark standard for Hadoop) results in 2015 and we continue this leadershi…

July 10, 2016

DATA CENTER

If Programmability & Automation Top of Mind, Visit us @ChefConf, @CL Las Vegas

This year we have ChefConf 2016 (Austin, Texas July 11 – 13) and Cisco Live US (Las Vegas, Nevada July 10 – 14) occurring around the same time. We realize that customers may not be able to attend both so we made sure we’re present at ChefConf. Regardless where you’ll be, we got you covered! At ChefC…

July 7, 2016

DATA CENTER

Elvis, HyperFlex, and Cisco Live 2016

Cisco Live 2016 is finally here! Planning for Cisco Live this year reminds me of the many similarities between “The King” and HyperFlex. What does Cisco’s next-generation hyperconverged platform and Elvis have in common? Surprisingly a lot. Elvis is one of the greatest singers of all time and is kn…

July 7, 2016

DATA CENTER

Containers and Microservices Will Change the Future of Enterprise IT

Learn how enterprises worldwide are adopting containers and microservices to transform business services and what your IT organizations needs to do to prepare for this change. Future of IT panel at Cisco Live, Las Vegas I am super excited to be moderating a marquee panel of industry thought leaders…

July 6, 2016

DATA CENTER

Must See Cool New Things for App Developers and Infrastructure Operations

For me personally, this year’s Cisco Live will be the most exciting event ever!  It comes after our Tetration Analytics announcement, the introduction of Cisco CloudCenter, and the showcasing of the latest generation of Cloud Scale Nexus fabric switches for Application Centric Infrastructure (…

July 5, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco Cloud Scale ASIC switches – deliver a 2 year advantage over Merchant silicon switches

Ever drive through a tract housing development where two to three models are repeated over and over again. All the houses have the same look, same layout, same square footage, etc. Over the last few years, it seems like a similar trend is happening in data center switching. Since most data center sw…

June 30, 2016

DATA CENTER

A quick journey through all the excitement that awaits you at Cisco Live 2016

As Las Vegas glows in the intense June summer sun, another glow is appearing on the horizon. The heat is hot and the ground dry, but the air is filled with sound – I am reminded of a famous America song. Are you wondering what the song could be? Cisco Live 2016 is arriving in town a week from…

June 29, 2016

DATA CENTER

New! Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera and Apache Spark

Well, we do not stand still for long…at least our R&D teams don’t! The breadth of our solutions for Big Data and Analytics continues to grow, as we are pleased to introduce Cisco’s UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera and Apache Spark.  Working with one of…

June 29, 2016

DATA CENTER

Chaos Monkey as a Service and other memorable moments at Velocity Conference

Last week was quite eventful, certainly unpredictable and some would probably say chaotic. I am a big soccer fan, so with the Copa America and the Euro 2016 tournaments happening, I certainly could scratch that itch. And as always, it is more art than science to predict the results (Iceland winning…

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