data center

March 6, 2020

DATA CENTER

Meet our featured Woman in Tech on International Women’s Day

On International Women’s Day, and every day, Cisco is committed to celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.  As the World’s Best Place to Work, we are proud to celebrate and support the people that make Cisco, well, Cisco. The mission for IWD: Women in T…

February 28, 2020

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Why Single-Lambda 100G Is Just What Networks Need in Pluggable Optics

Subscribe to the Cisco Optics Blog We recently introduced the QSFP28 100G FR pluggable transceiver. This may be one product, but it’s the beginning of a bigger industry dynamic that will change 100G pluggable optics over the next several years. To understand why we will need a change, let̵…

February 20, 2020

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Quenching the Never-ending Thirst for Capacity and Scale

Here’s what we need: build a data center that can support billions of unique server sessions per day. Also, let’s have it bring up personalized images, video, and other rich media content for hundreds of millions of people, simultaneously, the second they hit our servers. Oh, and don’t forget to mak…

January 23, 2020

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

A New Generation of 100G Pluggable Optics Starts With QSFP28 100G FR and PAM4

When it comes to network deployment strategies, you may be accustomed to treating pluggable optics as an afterthought. But over the past several years, higher data rate pluggable optics have been developed to keep up with bandwidth demands in data centers and service provider networks. And with thos…

January 22, 2020

DATA CENTER

Cisco Live EMEA 2020 – Barcelona gears up to host industry’s premier tech event, third year in a row

With sunny skies and balmy weather, Barcelona is Europe’s greatest city to visit in the winter.  It is also the time when the cultural calendar swings into action, and often hosts the best festivals and exhibitions of the year. For me, the special draw is Cisco Live Barcelona, where I get the  oppor…

January 16, 2020

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

QSFP-DD800 MSA Paves The Way For 800G Links In Data Centers

Written by Ray Nering, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco  Data center network traffic continues to grow, and as always Cisco is here to provide the best infrastructure options for the industry. According to Cisco’s VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast, traffic growth from 2017 to 2022 will…

January 10, 2020

SECURITY

Datacenter Security: How to Balance Business Agility with Great Protection

When IDC consults with enterprise customers or performs worldwide surveys, security is invariably an acute concern. That’s regardless of geography, industry, and identity of respondent (executive, LoB, IT, DevOps, etc.). While the challenge of providing protection and security extends across all pla…

January 10, 2020

PARTNER

Demystifying Data Center Services for Partners

With Cisco’s Partner Summit 2019 wrapped up, and the evolution of Cisco Customer Experience in full swing, Cisco partners are listening closely as they decide what and how to invest as they grow their Cisco practice. Specifically, on the data center and cloud front, partners are dealing with m…

October 31, 2019

DATA CENTER

Cisco Participates in Microsoft Ignite 2019: Overview

Between data everywhere and exactly where you need it, there’s a bridge. Visit Cisco Booth 1213 at Microsoft Ignite to learn how to effectively deploy that bridge. Technology companies have come to know Microsoft Ignite as one of the hottest tickets in the industry. If you are one of the lucky regis…