data center
Reflecting on a Great Cisco Partner Connection Week
One of the things I value most about Cisco Partner Connection week is the in-depth conversations I get to have with many of our top partners across the globe. I heard from many of you about the customer conversations you are having about operational efficiency, risk management, and customer and work…
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…
New Facebook storage platform looking more like Cisco UCS
A few weeks ago, this year’s Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, California concluded. I personally love this event to see what all the big massive scale data center operators are doing. I have been following the program since it’s inception and unfortunately missed this year’s event but you can de…
Cisco UCS Spelunking. Exploring Cisco’s Splunk Community and Other News Bits
Splunk is one of our key Cisco UCS ISV Partners in the area of data and analytics for the Data Center. Big Data as we all know throws off tons of structured and unstructured data and the ability to discover its meaning and therefore value requires good analytics capabilities. This is where S…
The Three Superpowers behind your next SAP HANA deployment
When I started supporting enterprise application platforms at the turn of the century, the model was pretty simple: a single, huge server with expensive high-performance storage behind it. If you outgrew the storage, you could add more, and if you outgrew the server, you bought the next larger box.…
Why Do Architectures Matter?
During the many events I attend each year, we hear one consistent piece of feedback from Cisco partners: to get a better understanding of the solutions that will make them more profitable. The great news? Opportunities are limitless, particularly in our three core focus areas – security, data center…
OFC 2017 Demo: Cisco 400GbE Optical Module
Written by Ray Nering, Product Marketing Manager, Cisco We’re excited to announce that Cisco will have two demonstrations of the QSFP-DD form factor at OFC 2017. The QSFP-DD standard is important because it supports the continued growth in network bandwidth demand and datacenter traffic, by quadrupl…
When It Comes To Protecting Data, Cisco Services Goes All-In
Yes, it’s official! Cisco successfully completed the ISO 27001 Certification across our entire services business worldwide. This important certification reinforces our commitment to protecting Cisco and our customers. With Cisco as a trusted partner, customers can be confident that every possible sa…