data center
Take 2: From an Ancient Scottish Castle to the Gartner Data Center Conference in London
Time flies! I’m off to the Gartner Data Center conference in London again. And as per last year, I’ll drive my this ancient and very historical Bothwell Castle on my way to the airport. Last year I was very busy at the Cisco stand in the Solution Showcase. This time, I’m…
Making it Easier for You to do Business with Us – Fixed Price Professional Services from Cisco
Professional services, Consultancy Services, Advanced Services – call them what you will. I can hear you say: “On No! Complexity”. “Now I need to work a Statement of Work”. “I need help to get my project on time, can’t this get easier?” “I need to get my legal contracts team involved.”…
Here Comes the Sun
When I was a kid, one of my neighbors had a solar radiometer. It’s a glass bulb about the size of a baseball, with diamond-shaped panels connected to a spindle. The panels, black on one side and silver on the other, would turn on the spindle when exposed to light. I enjoyed experimenting with the…
Next Generation Data Centers Need Next Generation Skills
The Cisco Global Cloud Index reports that annual global data center IP traffic will reach 6.6 zettabytes by the end of 2016 at a compound annual growth rate of 31 percent. The growth of data and these new technologies impacts not only IT systems and infrastructures, but also the professionals that d…
James Bond and Data Centers??
This weekend I managed to see the new James Bond film, Skyfall. The technologist in me noticed the transformation of the espionage industry to the cyber world. More interesting were the Data Center scenes in which the equipment was neatly arranged with minimal cabling. One blog even called it the…
Engineers Unplugged (Episode 9): Be Kind to Your Protocol
In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, we hear from VMware’s Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) and Chuck Hirstius (@rexremus) as they discuss how to Be Kind to Your Protocol, including solutions to common problems and the art of tuning. Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, wh…
IPS in the Data Center Workshop
I pulled some workshop hosting duty trying to fill Jimmy Ray’s big orange shoes this morning. The subject is a great one – Intrusion Prevention in the Data Center with an incredibly sharp engineer, Stijn Vanveerdeghem. Stijn is one of those crazy smart security guys down in Austin, TX a…
Ask the Data Center Expert: Data Center and Cloud Trends in Asia
The following excerpts are from an interview with Bernie Trudel, Asia Pacific Regional Data Center and Cloud CTO, Cisco Systems, Inc. As someone whose world is dominated by cloud, data center, privacy, and compliance, it was exciting to meet a long-term expert with the same-shared interests. Bernie…
What Is Cisco UNIFIED FABRIC? Why Should You Care?
Is your network ready to help you transform and be the strategic partner that you can be? Let’s face it… Today’s data centers are challenged with siloed resources and facilities… Limited scalability… Poor resource utilization… Growing complexity…Perhaps the biggest challenge is time. Wh…