Converged Infrastructure

If you want to have an interesting conversation with someone, just ask them what they’re building. Everyone is building something in their personal and professional lives: families, teams, products, coalitions, solutions, bridges. And, when someone shares what they’re building, they’ll offer you a v…

Enterprise IT leaders are being asked to deliver performance, scale, and availability for their mission-critical workloads while improving operational efficiency through the adoption of new management solutions that include AI and analytics capabilities. The goal is to accelerate deployment and mana…

Modern data centers face increasing demands for agile, high performance service delivery. Digital transformations are driving an increased number of applications with more sources of data, and often times that data is critical proprietary data or in the case of healthcare providers, patient data tha…

Modern companies need to move quick. And to do so, they need things to be streamlined. From hosting 40,000 people at a big game, to churning out thousands of newspapers hot-off-the-press, to delivering millions of pizzas right on time. To keep up, companies need an integrated solution powering their…

“Mission Critical” is a term bandied about far too often in our industry.   But in the case of SAP HANA it’s a fair description; if your core business operations backbone is not “mission critical,” what is? That’s why Cisco is excited to be a major sponsor of SAP’s SapphireNow user conference in Orl…

Cisco has made deployment, provisioning and expansion of data center workloads running on Cisco HyperFlex™ and Cisco UCS™ up to 90% faster and much easier by delivering private Infrastructure as-a-Service (IaaS) with UCS Director.…

Converged Infrastructure featuring all-flash storage offers the promise of ease of use, faster performance, and better ROI.  This is particularly true in the SAP world where the ability to rapidly access and process critical data can have a huge impact on one’s business.   We understand this qu…

History regularly repeats itself. Sometimes it’s exciting and other times not so much. A current market transition I’m excited about happens to be occurring across the entire data center touching compute, storage, and networking. It’s the shift to shared nothing architectures and it takes me b…

Hi again! Many of you are looking to refresh your current hardware, deploying your first or second cluster of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). You are likely starting with a VDI project, virtualized infrastructure in a branch office or perhaps a cluster of applications for a specific department…