Cisco UCS
A Look Back at 2012: Evolution of Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI)
As 2012 came to a close, I found myself looking back not only on the events of world at large but also on just how much progress we have made here at Cisco with the Cisco VXI Smart Solution. I took a moment to reflect on the incredible value VXI delivered to our customers last year. Since its incept…
Was 2012 Year of the Converged Infrastructure Solutions?
As we got past the Mayan Apocalyse day and as 2012 comes to an end, a question to reflect upon is if this has been the year of the Converged Infrastructure Solutions. Incidentally, use of these solutions by data centers was a topic of discussion on a panel moderated by Jim McHugh last month. https…
Cloupia + Cisco Unified Management = Better Together
Yesterday, Cisco announced that we closed on the acquisition of Cloupia. Cloupia is now officially part of Cisco and a very exciting new addition to our Unified Management software portfolio. Ever since the news broke about Cisco’s intent to acquire Cloupia, I’ve been asked how this fits with our o…
Cisco Domain Ten: Domain 1: Facilities and Infrastructure
Yesterday I introduced you to the Cisco Domain TenSM, Cisco Services’ framework for simplifying data center transformation. This model is applicable to both business (enterprise), public sector (e.g. government, federal) and service provider (incl telco) organizations. Today I will summarize…
Cloud Computing and Cisco UCS
In my blog last week I introduced a series of conversations in which Mike Spanbauer, Industry analyst at Current Analysis, Cisco Executives, Jim McHugh and Brian Schwarz discussed several topics. One of the topics they discussed was the adoption of Cloud technologies by Enterprises. https://www.you…
Cisco Celebrates Progress in the Australian Server Market
As 2012 comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on what we’ve experienced in data centre virtualisation over the past 12 months. Let’s start with our customers. We’re seeing Australian businesses of all sizes and industry verticals using Cisco UCS to gain solid advantages to their business and…
Cisco UCS in the Private Cloud
As an early convert to the virtues of Cloud computing, it is fascinating to see the adoption of the ideas. Most organizations if not all, are figuring out how to harness cloud technologies to their advantage. It is interesting to get a perspective from an analyst who talks to users on a regular b…
Upgrading Five UC Clusters to Cisco UCS Reduces Servers and Costs
In an earlier post, my colleague Reid Bourdet described how we migrated our largest Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Cisco UCM) cluster to a virtual machine environment running on Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) servers. This was the 19-node (server) Cisco UCM cluster that serves th…
SAP TechEd Madrid Wrap-Up
SAP announces support for Virtualized SAP HANA for non-productive platforms at SAP Sapphire/TechEd Madrid On the final day of TechEd in Madrid, SAP announced that they will be supporting virtualization for Non-Productive SAP HANA systems. No other details were given surrounding this announcement, bu…