Data Center

Amid the imperative of digital transformation and the enterprise adoption of multicloud, network agility and flexibility are prized. The right network-automation tools can help, contributing to agile operations while enabling the portability of applications and data between on-premises datacenters a…

IDC, a leading technology research and analyst firm released their latest results for the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market, and I’m excited to report that Cisco HyperFlex showed an impressive growth of 46.8% in revenue for Q2 2019. To put that in perspective, that’s double the revenue grow…

Guest Blogger: Mr. HyperFlex All Flash Mr. HyperFlex All Flash is a HyperFlex System with 4 HyperFlex All Flash nodes and 2 UCS Fabric Interconnects. He also has a NVIDIA GPU inside of him. Mr. HyperFlex All Flash lives in San Jose where he tests all sorts of application workloads. He prides himsel…

As you might remember from our last posts in the DCNM 11 series, we discussed Using DCNM 11 for Easy Provisioning of Networks and VRF’s. Today, we are continuing the discussion by featuring how DCNM empowers compliance of the configurations defined by a user. Validation of configuration forms an int…

A couple months ago we released the new Cisco Innovated Intelligent Traffic Distribution (ITD) features on NX-OS 9.3.1. In this latest addition to Nexus 9000, we introduced ITD over VXLAN and ITD with destination NAT. The Cisco ITD feature in NX-OS was developed to addresses concerns with respect to…

Most of my days are spent talking to customers about network automation, application segmentation, and how to transition to a multicloud world. The vast majority of those customers have both Cisco and VMware products and solutions in their environments. Recently, we’ve seen an uptick in confusing in…

Author: Siva Sivakumar – Senior Director, Data Center Solutions Data scientists constant search for newer techniques and technologies that can unlock the power of their data is leading them towards artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools and methods. Consequently, this evolution…

The data center is not centered in one place anymore. With applications active at all points on the network, the data center can no longer be confined to a specific place but be more of a nerve cluster situated where the data is—which could be anywhere along the edge-cloud continuum. At the edge, wh…

If it’s Autumn in Las Vegas, It’s time for #SAPTechEd 2019 at the Venetian Conference Center, September 24-27, 2019. Cisco is once again a proud sponsor. If you are one of the lucky #SAPTeched attendees, include Cisco in your conference plans. We have a lot to talk about this year. Here is a step by…