Cisco ACI
OpenStack Gains Momentum with Users at Recent Summit
Cisco highlighted its support for OpenStack at the recent OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, which hosted 4500+ attendees and included many more users, in addition to the developers and operators that have dominated past conferences. A common theme among keynote presentations was the speed and flexibilit…
Control Without Compromise Through Superior Data Center Protection
The news of high-profile targeted data center attacks has dominated security news recently. But data center attacks are even more prevalent than those headlines suggest. In fact, a survey conducted last summer by Network World suggests that 67 percent of data center administrators experienced downti…
How To Fast Track to Fast IT – The ACI Keynote
On Wednesday May 20, at 8:30am join us for Fast Track to Fast IT: Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure keynote (GENSK-1109). This keynote features some of the heavy hitters in Cisco strategy talking about the direction of Cisco’s Enterprise Networks and Data Center technologies. Speake…
Cisco UCS and ACI Infrastructure Innovations for Big Data at Hadoop Summit
Big Data remains one of the hottest topics in the industry due to the actual dollar value that businesses are deriving from making sense from tons of structured and unstructured data. Virtually every field is leveraging a data-driven strategy as people, process, data and things are increasing being…
In the Driver’s Seat with Cisco Unified Data Center
I’ve been in this industry for more than three decades, and so I’ve experienced every data center technology breakthrough and market transformation in that time. We drove a market disruption ourselves with the introduction of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) in 2009, and after just five years,…
Cisco at Sapphire 2014 in Orlando June 3-5
It is that time of year again. SAP Sapphire is just around the corner and thousands of CIO’s, Line of Business Managers, Basis Consultants, and Application Architects will be heading to Orlando to see what is new and up the sleeves of SAP. Cisco will again have a major presence at this years event.…
Cisco’s Data Center and Cloud Management Software at Cisco Live San Francisco #CLUS
We’re excited to showcase new innovations in our data center infrastructure automation and cloud management software at Cisco Live San Francisco this week! This past Friday, Cisco announced the new Cisco UCS Director version 5.0 – including Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) support and integ…
The Countdown Begins! Cisco customers and partners prepare to roll out ACI
As spring turns to summer, just 6 months from when Cisco announced its vision of Application Centric Infrastructure, the momentum has started to pick up on all fronts – solution availability, technology integration with partners, channel awareness and most importantly strong customer traction. It is…
Announcing Cisco UCS Director 5.0 – with Support for Application Centric Infrastructure
It’s that time of year again. Next week in San Francisco, an estimated 22,000 customers and partners will convene for our annual Cisco Live user conference in the U.S. It’s also when we make big announcements … and this year is no different. The event hasn’t even started and we just made our first m…