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May 12, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Fibre Channel SAN Switching – Cisco Has Your Back

Back in 1984 the desire to connect across campus gave birth to the first multi-protocol router, and to Cisco.  Much has changed since then, but one thing remains constant.  No, I’m not talking about my love of the New York Yankees – I’m talking about Cisco’s focus on the customer. Putting customer f…

May 2, 2017

DATA CENTER

Our Commitment to Innovation, Choice and Openness in Next Generation Virtual Switching

Cisco has always been focused on providing customers with the best innovation, under an umbrella of choice and openness, in our next-generation virtual switching portfolio. Last month, VMware notified customers of its intention to remove the 3rd Party virtual switch APIs in Update 2 of vSphere 6.5.…

April 20, 2017

DATA CENTER

3rd Annual Interoperability Testing: Converging on a Standard

For the third year in a row, Cisco participated in the VXLAN BGP EVPN interoperability testing at the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC). The interoperability showcase and test results are featured in the EANTC white paper as a part of the MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress. This year, a…

March 29, 2017

DATA CENTER

iCAM

iCAM (Intelligent CAM) is Cisco’s breakthrough innovation that provides traffic analytics, per-feature hardware usage, recommendations and more, natively on the switch/router. So why is this important?   In today’s datacenter network, customers lack visibility into traffic patterns inside and outsid…

February 27, 2017

CLOUD

Secure Agile Exchange Revealed

Cisco launched Secure Agile Exchange (SAE) last week in Berlin, Germany, as part of Cisco Live Europe.  It was part of our  DNA Virtualization announcement  – so subtle you might have even missed it.  We’ve been working on Secure Agile Exchange (SAE) for the last 3 years.  We have a few custom…

February 21, 2017

DATA CENTER

Managing Applications Across Hybrid Clouds

Guest Author: Brad Casemore IDC Research Director, Datacenter Networks Whether resident in traditional datacenters or – increasingly – in the cloud, applications remain the means by which digital transformation is brought to fruition and business value is realized. Accordingly, management and orches…

November 15, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Ride the Hybrid Cloud Wave: next-generation Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite

Change is everywhere and it is happening faster than ever. Data centers have become user-centric rather than IT-centric. Developers, on behalf of the business, demand self-service access to technology. And when they don’t get it, they claim it themselves. These teams want access to public cloud like…

October 25, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Open Pay Financial Tool Opens Technological Potential for Insight Enterprises

Co-Authors: Frank Palumbo, SVP, Global Data Center & Enterprise Networking Sales and Kristine A. Snow, SVP, Cisco Capital We’ve previously written about how companies can overcome financial limitations and develop organizational agility with Open Pay financing from Cisco Capital. Today, we…

October 24, 2016

DATA CENTER

Monday Morning Sure Looks Fine

You’re the head of IT facing the start of another week.   Another set of challenges.  Application teams going around IT.   Business teams expecting near-instant service.  Your company is growing fast.  Way beyond your ability to plan — let alone respond. You may think this is far-fetched.  I s…