data center

January 8, 2014

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged S4|Ep9: Cloud in Translation

Happy New Year! We’re kicking off the year strong with this very special international episode of Engineers Unplugged. Matthew Yeager (@mpyeager) and Juan Manuel Rey (@reypo) discuss cloud adoption in Europe and how the terms get lost in translation, but maintain a key focus: customers. **The…

December 20, 2013

SMALL BUSINESS

The Cisco RV325 – The newest edition to the Cisco Small Business Routing Portfolio

Now that the Holidays are upon us, and we look forward to 2014, the Cisco Small Business team continues to raise the Small Business networking bar with the introduction of the all new Cisco RV325. This Dual WAN, 14-port VPN Router, provides all of the same performance, security and reliability of th…

December 16, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco ACI: In the market, building momentum. Full suite on schedule for Q2 2014

If you’re a West Coaster who couldn’t quite make it out of bed at 5am last Thursday, or you just didn’t catch the Cisco Financial Analyst Conference in New York, then you might have missed Cisco CEO John Chambers sharing some exciting news about the progress we’re making with the Cisco Application C…

December 6, 2013

DATA CENTER

Summary : Sourcefire in our Data Center by Cisco Chief Security Officer

            Last October , Cisco confirmed that Sourcefire was now part of our family of security products and solutions . “With this acquisition, we take a significant and exciting step in our journey to define the future of security. As one company, we offer an…

December 3, 2013

SECURITY

Sourcefire in Our Data Center – The First Inline Production Deployment at Cisco

In October, we were delighted to announce the completion of our acquisition of Sourcefire. With Sourcefire on board, Cisco provides one of the industry’s most comprehensive advanced threat protection portfolios, as well as a broad set of enforcement and remediation options that are integrated, perva…

November 26, 2013

INSIDE CISCO IT

Taking the Journey to Private Cloud Services

Building our Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure Services (CITEIS) has been a journey of planning, development, and deployment. Cisco customers will find the steps we’ve taken helpful in looking at their own plans for offering IT private cloud services.…

November 20, 2013

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged S4|Ep5: Secure the Infrastructure!

We all know we need it, but no one wants to talk about. Today, we break through that taboo. Secure the Infrastructure! This bold declaration brought to you courtesy of Matthew Brender (@mjbrender) and Mike Foley (@mikefoley) as they talk about how to use a hardening guide, and how to execute securit…

November 19, 2013

DATA CENTER

The Quickest Way To Get Started with ACI

By now, given all the launch and blogging activity activity over the past week or so, I am sure your understanding of and interest in Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) will have grown.   Many of you will be asking “how do I get started as quickly as possible?”, and “how can…

November 13, 2013

INSIDE CISCO IT

How a Cisco IT Team Uses the CITEIS Private Cloud

My team maintains and supports Cisco IT’s internal implementation of the Cisco WebEx Social collaboration platform. Cisco employees use WebEx Social for internal collaboration and knowledge sharing in online communities, and as a central repository for documents, videos, and other information resour…