FlexPod
Seeing is believing – Graphics Conference first day brings together industry players with Cisco
No longer just the domain of gamesters and young-at-heart, the graphics industry is now providing stunning performance to all sorts of industries such as manufacturing, finance, healthcare and design. Perhaps none more so though than the Oil and Gas Industry, as companies explore in harder-to-get-at…
IT Automation Eases the Cost of Doing Business
The increasing pace of business is creating high demand for IT efficiency and speed. IT directly affects your ability to respond correctly and quickly to new opportunities. Slow IT equates to slow business. The latest release of Cisco UCS Director allows IT to automate the deployment of infrastruct…
Capture New Business Opportunity with Effective Automation
The connections between your business success and data center efficiency have never been clearer or stronger. Delivering data center resources quickly to capitalize on new business opportunities or projects is a major factor for business success. The only way to expedite resource delivery is by repl…
#EngineersUnplugged S7|Ep2: FlexPod 101
In this episode, Emad Younis (@Emad_Younis) and Melissa Palmer (@vmiss33) give us the highlights of the FlexPod solution, from the parts to the implementation, with plenty of real world examples. This is Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, with a whit…
Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) Case Study features Cisco, NetApp and SAP along with Benefits
Many parts of the world are undergoing structural reform in terms of their utilities and services, and Electrical Utilities are no exception. Privatization was opening up both opportunities and challenges for the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC). “With greater competition on the horizon,…
Keeping Your Eyes on the Skies – A Partner’s View on SQL Server and UCS
A Guest Blog by Partner Rick Heiges of Scalability Experts: Rick is a SQL Server Microsoft MVP and Senior Solutions Architect. He primarily works with Enterprise customers on their Data Platform strategies. Rick is also very involved in the SQL Server Community primarily through PASS and events suc…
Cisco and NetApp – Partnering for the Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid cloud is finally here. Since cloud came on the scene a few years back, companies have had the choice of building a private cloud, which they managed on premises, or buying services from a public cloud provider. Typically, companies had to pick one or the other for a given application. With…
Connected Graphics on display at SEG 2014 by NetApp, Cisco, Citrix and NVIDIA
The coming week sees the SEG International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting take place in Denver, Colorado. SEG is the Society of Exploration Geophysicists – those scientists that are at the sharp end of finding oil and gas around the world. Despite the current boom in non-conventional dril…
NetApp and Cisco Deliver Extreme Performance For Oracle Database
Guest post by Aaron Newcomb, Solutions Marketing Manager, NetApp No one wants the 2:00 am distressed phone call disturbing a good night’s sleep. For IT Managers and Database Administrators that 2:00 am call is typically bad news regarding the systems they support. Users in another region are not abl…