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Cisco UCS powers HPC clusters for student competition
In the rolling hills of North Carolina, two renowned universities, Wake Forest University and North Carolina State University (NC State), engage in a friendly academic rivalry. This relationship is about to get tested as both universities have been selected to participate in the Student Cluster Comp…
2018: A New Year with Cisco Small Business
Greetings and Happy New Year to you all. I trust you all enjoyed the Holiday Season. Like many, I took some time off during the Holidays. We spent a week up in Mammoth Mountain here in California and while the snow quantity was a little lacking, the snow quality and somewhat smaller crowds more than…
Cisco IT – Why So Many CUCM Clusters?
Last week, we looked at the question “How close to the phones does the CUCM cluster have to be?” There was no easy or set answer to this question, but we acknowledged right at the start that minimizing the number of clusters is probably a good idea. So why, then, does Cisco IT have so many clusters?…
How Close To Your Phones Does a CUCM Cluster Have To Be?
The first things involved in designing a Unified Communications network are deciding where to put the Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) clusters, and how many clusters to have. And some of the major factors to consider are “Where are the phones? How many are there, and how close to the pho…
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…