Data Center
Red Hat and Cisco bring Application Policy to OpenStack environments
On January 13, 2015, Cisco will celebrate a year of industry adoption of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a ground breaking SDN architecture. It will include a public webcast with ACI customers and ecosystem partners describing a range of new solutions that dramatically simplify data center…
Cisco Adds Check Point Next-Gen Security Gateway to Growing List of Strategic ACI Partners
Cisco is announcing another important strategic partner to its list of ACI-compliant vendors with the addition of the Check Point Next Generation Security Gateway to the ecosystem. A couple months ago I wrote about the inherent security architecture in ACI (Security for an Application Centric World)…
Where is Cisco Data Virtualization Going in 2015?
Welcome to 2015! If you are like me, the New Year is a great opportunity to assess where I am at and where I am going. So let’s do that for Cisco Data Virtualization. 2014 – A Year of Exciting New Products Before looking ahead at 2015, let’s first take a look at 2014 highlights. 2014 was an i…
Tailored Data Center Integration and Integrated Infrastructure for SAP
TDI and Converged Infrastructure for SAP. The new frontier Join a google hangout on Jan 14th to discover how TDI and Integrated Infrastructure have simplified the installation and support for SAP installations. The link to register is below. Hope to see you there https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/11…
How To Gain an Edge by Taking Data Analytics to the Edge
In Part 1 of this blog series, I talked about how data integration provides a critical foundation for capturing actionable insights that generate improved outcomes. Now, in Part 2, I’ll focus on the two other challenges that must be met to extract value from data: 1) automating the collection of dat…
ACI and Nexus 9000 Win 2014 infoTECH Spotlight Data Center Excellence Awards
[Note: For more perspective on the growing momentum for Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000, register today for our upcoming live ACI webcast: “Is Your Data Center Ready for the Application Economy”, January 13, 2015, 9 AM PT, Noon ET, featuring more ACI customers and several key ACI technology par…
The Time for Desktop as a Service is Now
A new whitepaper from IDC, “The Workspace-as-a-Service Opportunity: Why Now is the Time for Desktop as a Service” is a must-read for any organization facing the challenge of delivering applications and services to employees on mobile devices. According to IDC, corporate-liable smartphone shipments…
New Data Center Webcast – Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 Production Customers Discuss Game Changing Business Outcomes; E …
Business requirements define Applications. Applications run on IT infrastructure. If the IT infrastructure is more responsive to the needs of applications, then, it almost certainly guarantees better business outcomes. That is the premise of Cisco’s next Data Center webcast to be broadcast on Januar…
ACI Customers Share Experiences at Gartner Data Center Conference
[Note: If you like hearing these customer perspectives, register today for our upcoming live ACI webcast: “Is Your Data Center Ready for the Application Economy”, January 13, 2015, 9 AM PT, Noon ET, featuring more ACI customers and several key ACI technology partners.] Happy New Year to…
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