Cisco HyperFlex

I am proud to share that today Cisco announced its intent to acquire Springpath, Inc., a leader in hyperconvergence software based in Sunnyvale, Calif. Cisco first made an investment in Springpath in 2015. A year later, we jointly co-engineered and developed Cisco HyperFlex Systems, a fully-integrat…

Although cloud security has improved tremendously over the years, public cloud still gives some federal IT managers pause. To at least some federal IT managers, the idea of trusting sensitive data to a public cloud provider is not much more appealing than spending a night in an abandoned house while…

Everyone knows the story by now. We have siloed groups of people working on various parts of our data center infrastructures. There’s a lot of red-tape, a lot of disparate ideas on who should do what and when they should do it. That’s why public cloud is so appealing to people in our organizations w…

Last month Cisco introduced our latest platform for realizing Cisco’s vision of “intuitive infrastructure“. This initiative is another step forward in the Cisco UCS strategy to provide customers with greater simplicity, automation, and intuitive computing. Guest Blogger: Gautham Ra…

Next week at CiscoLive we will begin to introduce the next evolutionary step for Unified Computing.  UCS was conceived a decade ago with the ambition to tackle some of the hardest problems that existed in the data center. The architecture that emerged from that thinking has changed the shape of the…

Over 1500+ New HyperFlex Customers Greetings! We can’t believe Cisco Live US is already around the corner. Cisco HyperFlex continues to see rapid adoption with now over 1500+ customers across new industries and our current customers continue to scale-out their hyperconverged (HCI) footprints with th…

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) – it’s a bit of a mouthful but the truth is it’s not half as complicated as it sounds. While the concept has only been mainstream for a few years, HCI is the fastest-growing segment of the market for integrated systems. In fact, Gartner predicts it wil…

They said we were crazy. Back in 2009, when we unveiled the Cisco Unified Computing System, industry pundits – namely our competitors in the server market – said we’d overreached in a technology arena we knew little about. What we introduced was an innovative solution that unified compute, network,…

You can now use Ansible for configuration management, deployment, and orchestration of Cisco UCS servers, storage, fabric, hyperconverged infrastructure and converged infrastructure as well as Nexus switches.…