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Cisco and Microsoft: Radically Improving I.T. Effectiveness Together
Today at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2014) in Washington D.C. we entered into a new phase of our Microsoft relationship. Together Cisco and Microsoft announced a multi-year, worldwide sales and channel program focused on driving infrastructure solutions for Server Migration, Privat…
UCS Integrated Infrastructure and New EMC VMAX3
New applications and cloud computing are placing new demands on IT infrastructure. The infrastructure needs to be capable of quickly responding to dynamic business priorities and changing market conditions. Customers require an IT infrastructure that brings the scale, agility, and mission-critical…
FlexPod’s Success and Technology Roadmap Point to a Bright Future
The integrated infrastructure segment continues to be one of the fastest growing IT markets. We recently highlighted that Cisco was the leader in the integrated infrastructure market with industry leading integrated systems built on top of Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus. The FlexPod platform, jointly dev…
What Cisco’s Top Cloud Infrastructure Means to You
Arguably 2014 is already turning out to be a big year for cloud. Some have even called it “The Year of the Cloud.” Cloud implementation continues to play an essential role in overall IT strategy: A recent report says 80% of cloud adopters saw improvements within 6 months of moving to the cloud.…
High performance Splunk with VMware on top of EMC ScaleIO and Isilon
I recently did a project involving several moving parts, including Splunk, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS servers, EMC XtremSF cards, ScaleIO and Isilon. The project goal was to verify the functionality and performance of EMC storage together with Splunk. The results of the project can be applied to a ba…
Summary: High performance Splunk with Vmware on top of EMC ScaleIO and Isilon
I recently did a project involving several moving parts, including Splunk, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS servers, EMC XtremSF cards, ScaleIO and Isilon. The project goal was to verify the functionality and performance of EMC storage together with Splunk. The results of the project can be applied to a ba…
Cisco UCS Blades #1 – Time in a Bottle (ne Blog)
Were you surprised? Probably not. Tracking Time with UCS – Last 3 Years of Market Share Growth: 5 years 3 months ago Cisco announced UCS 5 years ago, Cisco started shipping UCS. Today UCS is #1 in the US and in the Americas. What made UCS so successful? What is the real s…
Delivering Business Outcomes: When Did You Last Reduce Time To Market?
Working in the Data Center and Cloud Professional Services team in Cisco on cloud and software defined networking, I am sometimes asked “What do you guys in Cisco Services really do?” [especially by people in my office :-)] I’ll use Cbeyond, one of our customers who offer differe…
How Cisco Helped Solutionary Boost Security and Improve their Hadoop Performance
Every day, security threats continue to evolve, as cyber attackers continue to exploit gaps in basic security controls. In fact, the federal government alone has experienced a 680% increase in cyber security breaches in the past six years, and cybersecurity attacks against the US average 117 per day…
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