Data Center

This is the second of a two part series on Tetration Analytics, a platform designed to help customers gain complete visibility across their data centers in real time. Part 1 covered challenges, an overview of the solution, and components. Today, I’ll cover use cases, benefits and additional resource…

Yesterday Cisco announced Tetration Analytics, a platform designed to help customers gain complete visibility across their data centers in real time. These posts, Data Center Visibility on a Whole New Scale and A Limitless Time Machine For Your Data Center, provide context and a high level overview…

In the film Limitless, the main character Eddie finds himself able to learn and analyze information at a superhuman rate. He temporarily has the ability to instantly and meaningfully cross-correlate all of the previously forgotten experiences from his past (1) and assess multiple scenarios in the fu…

Cloud is now a fundamental part of IT landscapes.  Enterprise and IT executives deal with large numbers of applications that are being versioned faster than ever before. Running IT is increasingly challenged to support line-of-business needs. To learn how to simplify application lifecycle management…

Register here for the event with Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on June 15th. In many ways, the state of analytics and the data center today can be best equated with the field of astronomy. As a science, astronomy has made great strides over the last several millennia giving us unprecedented knowledge and…

Guest Blogger: David Soper, Technical Marketing Engineer The new integration of UCS Manager with Puppet delivers rapid bare metal provisioning all Cisco UCS systems in just a few steps.   Infrastructure as Code Meets Configuration Automation Cisco UCS systems were designed from their beginning…

As we deliver more and more software projects in my part of Cisco Services, I have a keen interest in software development best practices.  And concerns on poor practices.  A few weeks ago, a software vendor made a passing comment on their next software release to me “It’s OK, in our new…

This is Part I in a four part series of blogs.  Micro-segmentation has become a buzzword in the networking industry. Leaving the term and the marketing aside, it is easy to understand why customers are interested in the benefits that Micro-segmentation provides. The primary advantage of Micro-segme…

To me, there is nothing more satisfying than when a customer gives glowing testimonials publicly to our products and solutions. In the last two weeks, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) has been in the news with a spate of customer success stories. First, we saw the news report on how se…