Data Center

IT Service Management meets Hybrid IT Borrowing the signature song from the Lego Movie for an enterprise service management blog post is a stretch, but I couldn’t resist. If you’ve seen the Lego Movie you’ll know that the song is extremely catchy, you can’t stop singing “Everything is awesome,…

  I am posting this blog on behalf of Vipul Shah, Sr Manager, Product Management. Imagine a data center network for an e-commerce business that allows for on-demand allocation of bandwidth as a result of high traffic volumes generated by large number of transactions during the holiday shopping…

This is Part II in a four part series of blogs.  This is the second of a series of blogs where we will illustrate how to leverage Cisco ACI to implement Micro Segmentation. In the first blog we described how to use ACI micro segmentation to implement a web application that uses a tier of apache We…

Guest blogger: AnnMarie Link, Global Strategic Partner Marketing Manager, Cisco  When you think about the future of IoT, can you visualize the impact it will have on the world around us? Picture a world where everything is connected, with data from everywhere organized, analyzed, and acted upon with…

I live in the Hill Country outside Austin where one of our local storytellers, Shake Russell, wrote a song for the Texas sesquicentennial in which he proclaims, “Cotton is King.” He subsequently amends it to say, “Cattle is King,” followed by “Oil is King,” before finally settling on “Willie is King…

In order to be more responsive in a highly competitive marketplace, organizations are transforming to support the 21st century needs by being more agile and efficient in delivering centralized applications and services to a geographically distributed customer base. To accomplish these goals, organiz…

As I author this, I am in my hotel room in Chicago and its Thursday evening. Our core Cisco Big Data team has been here for the past two days focused on planning our worldwide 2017 activities. One thing that is stuck in my mind now after our meetings is the phrase “Infrastructure is Cool!” – it’s a…

Two weeks ago, I posted a blog highlighting the growing customer momentum for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), particularly in the context of customer successes in ACI-F5 joint deployments. I am seeing a growing trend among customers of late to directly deploy the Nexus 9k series of switche…

If you are heading up an application develop team or are running an IT organization and you are looking at your developers initial steps to developing cloud native applications, I want to share some experienced insights gained from PaaS customers.  For me it is a view of the path many of you may be…