data center
Consumption Models Helping to Enable Business Transformation
Co-Author: Larry Scherzer, Director, Financial Product Development Digital transformation is really about business transformation and is driving the need for new consumption models. Gartner reports that 47 percent of CEOs are being challenged by their board of directors to make progress in digital b…
The FlashStack Revolution
Modern companies need to move quick. And to do so, they need things to be streamlined. From hosting 40,000 people at a big game, to churning out thousands of newspapers hot-off-the-press, to delivering millions of pizzas right on time. To keep up, companies need an integrated solution powering their…
Test Reports Show Nexus 9000 Data Center Switches are Superior to Competitors
Flexibility, scalability, agility. These are capabilities that everyone claims in the industry. How do you actually differentiate which company’s solution is the best? Instead of boring you with more buzz words, let me show you who really owns the crown for the best data center switches: Nexus 9000 …
Top 10 Considerations for SAP Big Data and Analytics
It’s that time again: SAP TechEd in Las Vegas! Local temperatures have cooled to a balmy 150 degrees outside the convention center and 10 degrees inside, reminding us that SAP Data Center refresh season is once again upon us. This year at TechEd, Cisco will focus on securing critical SAP data and s…
To Err Is Human, To Understand Is Big Data
High-performance computing – or HPC – fuels groundbreaking research. To show you how this powerful technology can be used across disciplines in higher education, we’ve started a high-performance computing series that provides real use cases for these supercomputers. Today, we’re talking big data. If…
Black Holes and Dying Stars: A High Performance Computing Use Case
High-performance computing – or HPC – fuels groundbreaking research. This isn’t news to scientists, but most researchers studying fields other than quantum mechanics and molecular modeling probably don’t realize that they can use a supercomputer to ramp up their analysis. This power, historically re…
Our Commitment to Innovation, Choice, and Openness in Next Generation Virtual Switching – Part 2
As many of you may have read on Monday in Tom Edsall’s blog post, Cisco announced our intent to put Cisco ACI into the public cloud – AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google. This allows our customers to place policy anywhere. And now, with ACI Virtual Edge (AVE), we will continue to fulfill our ‘ACI Anyw…
Ignite Innovation with Data Center in Education
Cisco Data Center solutions ignite innovation on campuses across the globe. Our simple, automated, and secure data center architecture – a central plank in the Digital Education Platform – equips schools to integrate hybrid infrastructure into a unified engine for transformative innovation. Run basi…
The storage architecture you envision is closer than it appears
Guest Author: Mario Blandini of SwiftStack The disruption that cloud has triggered in the marketplace has many organizations looking for a deeper level of expertise and experience from their solution vendors. Cisco has long been known as the top experts in networking, and has grown in reputation as…
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