Data Center

Recently, Network World said ACI is the market leader for number of SDN deployments. Let’s take a moment to consider what that means and why it’s the case. First, there is the obvious, in that over 1,800 customers have selected ACI as their Software Defined Network solution. But beyond that, what is…

On June 6th, 2016 Cisco announced support for the Intel Xeon processor E7-8800 v4 family on the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS). On the same day as the Intel announcement, Cisco captured six world records on industry benchmarks on Cisco UCS to highlight the way in which Cisco UCS can acce…

“Enterprises won’t need systems integration and professional services if they shut down their IT Operations and move to the cloud.” – Light Reading, May 31, 2016 Without any context, that quote could be wildly misinterpreted, and create some angst for you. Because if you’re reading this, you’re prob…

Recognition for Cisco UCS continues! Forrester Research recently positioned Cisco as a “Leader” in their report: The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Hadoop-Optimized Systems, Q2 2016. Built on innovation, designed for business acceleration, and engineered with scale and performance in mind, our Cisco UCS…

This is a guest blog by Tejas Vashi, Senior Director, Product Strategy & Marketing, Cisco Services Data rules the IT world right now – there is just so much of it.  Yet, there are often many missed opportunities when it comes to utilizing this data to extract insights and leveraging them t…

This is a guest blog written by Sunil Gudurvalmiki, Product Manager, Insieme Business Unit.     Data center operations teams are increasingly looking at tools to automate and simplify the manual tasks. In addition, they are driving towards using the same tools across compute, storage and n…

It is nearly impossible to miss the business transformation taking place in every organization.  As consumers, our smart devices have trained us to expect delivery of information or services at near instant speed.  But when we move from our consumer to business roles, we find service delivery anythi…

Cisco has been actively participating in open source and open standards for a long time and is now also a founding member of the Open IT Framework at the most recently held Open Networking User Group (ONUG) earlier this month. As I wrote in my blog prior to the event our focus was going to be on Con…

Guest blog by Wendi O’Neill, Splunk Platform Leader, Sirius Computer Solutions.  Follow Wendi on: Twitter  @WendiONeill9; or Linked in:https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendioneill.   Do you ever wish you could gather up ALL your machine data, lock it in a room, and grill it for answers until you fin…