Cisco UCS
The IT Organization Relay Race
“Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport… the thrill of victory… and the agony of defeat… the human drama of athletic competition,” voiced Jim McKay in the Wide World of Sports introduction. In two years, the world will tune in to Rio de Janeiro as the Brazil…
Steria Group : 5 Years of Cloud Business Expansion with Cisco UCS
As we have been celebrating over the past weeks the Cisco UCS 5 year anniversary, here is another great example of an enthusiastic customer and partner . Steria has been amongst the early adopters of Cisco UCS in 2009, as the IT organization was looking for innovative solutions. 5 years after the in…
Maximizing Big Data Performance and Scalability with MapR and Cisco UCS
Huge amounts of information are flooding companies every second, which has led to an increased focus on big data and the ability to capture and analyze this sea of information. Enterprises are turning to big data and Apache Hadoop in order to improve business performance and provide a competitive ad…
Simplifying Cisco UCS Management with Microsoft PowerShell
Many IT organizations use Microsoft PowerShell to automate and accelerate data center management tasks. The Cisco UCS PowerTool module for PowerShell provides users a comprehensive list of cmdlets to manage all components of Cisco UCS. Users can use these cmdlets to write PowerShell scripts to simp…
Cisco UCS Five Years On: The Right Solution at the Right Time
I knew we were on to something good when a customer told me “This is so easy, it’s CTO proof.” Early in the business, I was talking to a front-line server admin who had found that Cisco UCS made server deployment so reliable, automated and simple that he was convinced even his CTO could pull it off…
#CiscoChampion Radio S1|Ep6 UCS
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists, hosted by Cisco’s Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week we’re talking about UCS. Listen to the Podcast Featured Guests: Cisco Champions: Robert Novak (@gallifreyen), AJ Kuftic (@ajkuftic) Cisco Subject Matter Experts: Scott…
Market Dynamics and Cisco’s Unified Computing System
Innovation. Change. Market transitions. This is the natural order when it comes to IT. Today’s accelerated rate of technological change is disrupting all areas of IT, while at the same time creating new possibilities for our data center customers. As a CIO, you’re tasked with capitalizing on the…
#CiscoChampion Radio S1|Ep5: UCS Invicta
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists, hosted by Cisco’s Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week we’re talking about UCS Invicta. Listen to the Podcast Featured Guests: Cisco Champions: Trevor Roberts (@vmtrooper), Matt Oswalt (@mierdin) Cisco Subject Matter Expert…
Management implications of large scale data centers.
As data center workloads grow we hear about new large-scale mega data centers being built. According to a recent report Microsoft is planning on building a $9 Billion data center in Korea. This photo shows one of Microsoft’s large-scale data centers in Dublin. (courtesy datacenterdynamics)…