data center

Yesterday Cisco announced Tetration Analytics, a platform designed to help customers gain complete visibility across their data centers in real time. These posts, Data Center Visibility on a Whole New Scale and A Limitless Time Machine For Your Data Center, provide context and a high level overview…

In the film Limitless, the main character Eddie finds himself able to learn and analyze information at a superhuman rate. He temporarily has the ability to instantly and meaningfully cross-correlate all of the previously forgotten experiences from his past (1) and assess multiple scenarios in the fu…

Register here for the event with Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on June 15th. In many ways, the state of analytics and the data center today can be best equated with the field of astronomy. As a science, astronomy has made great strides over the last several millennia giving us unprecedented knowledge and…

Recently, Network World said ACI is the market leader for number of SDN deployments. Let’s take a moment to consider what that means and why it’s the case. First, there is the obvious, in that over 1,800 customers have selected ACI as their Software Defined Network solution. But beyond that, what is…

“Enterprises won’t need systems integration and professional services if they shut down their IT Operations and move to the cloud.” – Light Reading, May 31, 2016 Without any context, that quote could be wildly misinterpreted, and create some angst for you. Because if you’re reading this, you’re prob…

A: Knock Knock B: Who’s there? A: Dummy B: Dummy who? A: Dummy you without a big data and analytics project (jk). But you are in luck, I happen to have the book for you – Big Data and Analytics for Dummies. If you are so hung up on the words, “for dummies,” here is the rationale why we decided to us…

Research has shown that businesses who leverage their data are statistically more likely to be successful in their respective industries. The opportunity granted by big data enables businesses to boost their competitive advantage, improve the business decision making process, and increase revenue. U…

When I hear the term “power trio”, I think of Geddy, Neil and Alex.  A band, where there’s just a bass, drums and guitar, with one of  ’em singing.  By the way, if you like Rush, I’m guessing you’ll like Winery Dogs too.  Both are outstanding examples of power trios.  Another great…

  Cisco just received wonderful news from SAP: Customers love us! OK, we already knew that – not because we are all above-average looking (although we are) or because we’re hounded at the grocery story by Cisco groupies (it could happen) – but because we see it consistently in every study…