data center

Accelerating your journey to the next generation data center with FlexPod Here at Cisco we are getting ready to head to Las Vegas next week for our annual customer event, Cisco Live 2017.  Before we get there, we have some exciting news to share with you about a new addition to our extremely success…

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) – it’s a bit of a mouthful but the truth is it’s not half as complicated as it sounds. While the concept has only been mainstream for a few years, HCI is the fastest-growing segment of the market for integrated systems. In fact, Gartner predicts it wil…

Together, Cisco and Pure Storage are extending the definition of converged infrastructure to deliver flexible growth. Easy implementation. And choice and transformation. Solutions such as Cisco UCS and Pure Storage’s FlashStack have revolutionized the deployment of converged infrastructure by…

Quick, tell me three top reasons why U.S. Federal Agencies can’t adopt advanced technologies faster. If you said leadership, legacy and workforce, you win! Your prize is … um … well, you win the satisfaction of being right. In a recent survey by Accenture, focused mainly on the adoption of intellige…

The recent mega-outage in Amazon Web Services (AWS) knocked off a plethora of websites as well as various applications, security cameras, IoT gears etc. Cloud outages such as these have a huge impact on a global scale. With the rapid adoption of the cloud over the last few years, data centers are ex…

Service provider networks are at the epicenter of digitization, affecting how businesses and entire industries will operate for years to come.  Today it seems as if every disruptive new business model shaking up an industry is reliant on the innovative use of applications based on network services.…

“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…

A loaded question? Perhaps. But in today’s digital landscape it is one that many companies are trying to answer. Regardless of industry, brands that wish to remain competitive and offer optimized services and more engaging customer experiences are seeking digital flexibility. Many have turned to clo…

NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, aka GTC, is around the corner and it is a good time to reflect on the rise of GPUs in the data center and what they make possible. When I first attended GTC four years ago, machine learning and deep learning were barely on anybody’s radar outside academic circles an…