devops

June 23, 2017

CLOUD

Traits of Cloud Optimized Organizations

I am headed to Cisco Live in Las Vegas and I am looking forward to meeting with our partners and customers to learn more about their cloud plans and challenges. Believe it or not, cloud has been around for at least ten years, and yet all the data points at my disposal tell us that there is room for…

The Solution Capacity Management Has Been Waiting For

Operations Managers are very familiar with all the reasons their appliance-based networking infrastructure needs to be reconsidered—they live the problem constantly, day in and day out.  Speed is the key driver urging them to find alternate ways to deploy new network functions and services—the tradi…

June 5, 2017

DATA CENTER

Ansible and UCS Management Integration

You can now use Ansible for configuration management, deployment, and orchestration of Cisco UCS servers, storage, fabric, hyperconverged infrastructure and converged infrastructure as well as Nexus switches.…

Developers, Meet DevNet Create

You’ve heard us talk about it for months! #DevNetCreate: Cisco’s first developer conference, where applications meet… Applications have met a variety of challenges and ideas. We’ve collected our favorites here: blog.devnetcreate.io   Now, we invite YOU to join the conve…

April 19, 2017

DATA CENTER

Why the Cultural Side of DevOps Matters to Networks Facing Containerization

On Feb 3, Lori guest blogged about “programmability is the future of NetOps”. Lori is a frequent guest blogger and you can check her other blogs here. Cisco Insieme Business Unit and F5 have been innovating on the DevOps front for several years now and Lori is taking us through recent automation and…

April 4, 2017

DATA CENTER

Extending Ansible Automation to Cisco UCS and Nexus

Administrators can use now use Ansible as their common tool for configuration management, deployment, and orchestration of Cisco UCS standalone rack servers and Cisco Nexus. Ansible can help you set up infrastructure quickly and easily.…

March 21, 2017

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Save the Date for DevNet Create

Welcome DevNet Create Being social and digital first, it’s really #DevNetCreate to me – who doesn’t talk in hashtags? What an exciting time where a big shift continues toward application development and how apps are changing the world. Application developers are no longer confined…

March 17, 2017

FINANCIAL SERVICES

It’s Time to Fill Out Your Bracket! Is Your Financial Institution a #1 Seed?

It is estimated that during the next three weeks leading up to the NCAA Championship game on April 3rd, that more than 70 million Americans will fill out a tournament bracket. According to estimates released by the American Gaming Association, nearly $10.4 billion will exchange hands due to overwhel…

March 10, 2017

CLOUD

Are We Treating Cloud Just Like Another Data Center?

Yesterday at Google Next, Urs Hölzle quoted a great stat by RightScale – users waste 45% of cloud resources that they buy. While this number is not too far from what typically happens in traditional data centers, which operate at 20-30% of capacity on average, cloud promises a pay-per-use model. You…