Data Center
What Du Can Do With ACI
It seems people sometimes have this view of SDN as addressing rather esoteric use cases and situations. However, the reality is that while there are instances of ‘out there stuff’ happening, there are many situations where we see customers leverage the technology to address pretty straightforward is…
Unleash Your Business Analysts Cisco Data Preparation
As the leader of Cisco’s Data Virtualization and Analytics Business Units, it is my pleasure to announce Cisco Data Preparation, a new big data and analytics offering for business analysts and IT. What is Cisco Data Preparation? Driven by Business’s accelerating demand for analytics, Cisco Data Prep…
RISE on Nexus 7k switches with Cisco Prime NAM
Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module (NAM) has been integrated with Nexus 7k/7700 Series using Cisco® Remote Integrated Services Engine (RISE) technology providing a powerful story for data center integration. RISE with Prime NAM provides high performance monitoring and packet analysis on multiple vi…
Thinking Bigger! Cisco + IBM – Collaboration of giants brings industry-leading solution for big data analytics
In December 2014, we announced VersaStack, an integrated infrastructure reference solution for enterprise applications that combines technologies from Cisco and IBM. Further extending this partnership, today we are announcing support for IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop on our Cisco UCS Integrated…
Cisco ACI – A Hardened Secure Platform With Native, Built-in Security
This blog has been developed in association with Javed Asghar, Insieme Business Unit The Cisco ACI Platform consists of the Cisco APIC controller and Nexus 9000 series switches connected in a spine/leaf topology in a CLOS architecture configuration. All management interfaces (REST API, web GUI and…
An Overview of Network Security Considerations for Cisco ACI Deployments
Security continues to be top of mind with our customers and frequently comes up with customers who are evaluating new architectures. I have been in the networking industry for over two decades involved in multi-billion dollar product lines like Catalyst 5K/6K, MDS-9000, Nexus-7K, UCS, and now with A…
Part 2: Why not Initiate a “Save to Invest” Program for your Data Center?
Two weeks ago, in my previous blog, I invited you to consider ways in which you could initiate a “Save to Invest” program for your data center. That is, how can you save money from your current data center spend, in order to re-invest it into currently un- or -under-funded areas of your…
Cisco and Platfora Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise Scale Analytics
Analytics will continue to take center stage as the volume of data generated by embedded systems increases and vast pools of structured and unstructured data within and outside the enterprise are analyzed. — Gartner Big Data will continue to be important, but it’s critical to first understan…
NterOne Automates Applications Deployments with Cisco ACI
This June in San Diego, I had the pleasure of meeting Dan Stanton, Trainer and Subject Matter Expert at NterOne, a global IT training and consulting company. Dan shared his challenges to create great digital experiences for NterOne’s students. Dan and his team have to support virtual IT trai…
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