Cisco UCS Director

New orchestration functionality and a connector supporting a third party system demonstrate the potential of the open ecosystem Cisco is developing with our partners. Guest Blogger: Anand Louis, Senior Product Manager Open, Cloud-Based Infrastructure as a Service Cisco Intersight is more than a clou…

Everywhere you look, the industry is talking about applications. They generate revenue and run your business. Assuring your applications’ performance requires stable data center resources allocated in just the right size to meet demand. How does your business allocate resources?  Most over provision…

The IT admin standpoint: What’s in it for me? In the first part of this post we have seen that you can build a service catalog with all the enterprise features you need: multitenancy, role based access control, reporting, chargeback, approvals, etc. But you can also offer (secured) access to t…

Some of our largest enterprise customers are deploying the next-generation of data center networking.  They are delivering automation and intelligence with programmable hardware and software – deployed with application centric models that work best for their workloads.  Their IT leaders have focused…

Cisco UCS Director delivers new levels of orchestration and automation for Cisco HyperFlex Systems. Last Saturday was the first day of the Chinese New Year when we entered the year of the Rooster. Among the symbols associated with the year of the Rooster in the Chinese Zodiac are fidelity, punctuali…

According to the latest predictions from analyst firm IDC, “more than 80% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid cloud by 2017.” That means that your organization is likely to evaluate an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions this year, if you haven’t chosen one already. As you…

Organizations are realizing that without a formal comprehensive cloud strategy, line of business and application architects will continue to sidestep their internal IT organizations and procure solutions on their own – an industry phenomenon known as “rogue IT” which happens out of necessity.  While…

Cisco has been working closely with Hortonworks in delivering turnkey Big Data solutions that expedites the time to market for our joint Big Data Hadoop customers. Cisco’s industry leading UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data, is designed to deliver performance at scale for a wide variety of B…

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re talking with Cisco Marketing Manager Bill Shields and Cisco Principal Engineer Jim Leach, about our recent UCS launch. Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja) moderates and AJ Kuftic and Chric Nickl are this week’s Cisco Champ…