data center
AWS or Private Cloud or both, what’s your strategy?
Well we just opened up a hornet’s nest didn’t we?! Our recent announcement of the new Cisco UCS S-Series Storage Server definitely caused a stir in the industry. We launched into the emerging scale out storage market with a broad ecosystem of solution partners backed by amazing customers like Cirrit…
The Cloud Journey: Moving from Adoption to Greater Optimization and Utilization
Cloud computing has become the virtual bedrock for today’s business and consumer applications as well as future offerings on the service horizon. Cloud plays a pivotal role in digital transformation and has literally reshaped global data centers. While this is widely understood, I believe the real c…
Now what? 5 ways to capture momentum after the big event
My notebook is filled with inspiration, actions, ideas, and scuttlebutt from Partner Summit. I bet yours is too! Here are five things to do next (and share with your team). 1. Watch what you missed. You can’t be in two places at once which is why we offer the general sessions, impact sessions…
Big Data is Big Business for Quantium
According to IDC, the big data market, including services such as analytics, is expected to reach nearly $50 billion by 2019. Luckily for Quantium, data is in its DNA. Australia’s largest analytics business is happily riding the wave on the booming global big data industry. Quantium’s customers—incl…
Discovering Data Centers: What’s Really Happening Behind Those Closed Doors?
The release of the sixth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (GCI) reveals some interesting new findings on global data center and cloud trends. For those of us who are not data center operators, these infrastructures are largely invisible or nebulous (pardon the pun). Maybe you’ve walked by the server…
Is polling data big data? A back-of-the-envelope calculation
For the past year Americans have read about polling data almost daily, so the casual observer may be forgiven for thinking there are mountains and mountains of data being collected to help make sense of this year’s unusual election. The truth is, though, that polling data is not big data, either in…
Green Cloud bets on Cisco UCS S-Series to power new lines of business
Size matters—especially as physical data center space becomes more coveted at premium prices. So why wouldn’t you pack more into less, for less, if you could? That’s the approach that Green Cloud Technologies is taking with its investment in Cisco UCS S-Series storage-optimized servers. Green Cloud…
Finding Insights at the End of the Data Tunnel
Data. It’s the lifeblood of digital transformation. And managing data that’s constantly flowing into your company requires combining capacity, performance and economics. Even more, finding insight inside that data comes down to how quickly and reliably you can work through it. Companies transforming…
Simplifying Security for Cisco Customers with New Cisco ONE Advanced Security Suites
Security is the single biggest concern for our customers. And today, the average organization has security products from dozens of vendors, making security infrastructure complex and difficult to manage. With the introduction of Cisco ONE Advanced Security, Cisco is reducing this complexity, and sim…