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The GPU Accelerated Data Center takes Flight: Cisco Heads to NVIDIA GTC Europe
Welcome back! There wasn’t much lead time between my last blog and this one, but the Cisco “travel bug” has taken hold and it stops for no one. This time our Cisco global world tour takes us to Munich, Germany. Cisco is excited to be joining NVIDIA at their yearly GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in…
Deliver a High-Performance 3D Experience to Virtualized Desktops
There’s no doubt that virtualized desktop infrastructure can help save money and give workers the tools they need to get their jobs done. There’s a “but” in this scenario, though. Which is that, in the case of graphics-intensive applications, virtualization has negatively impacted performance. What…
Refining Big Data with Deep Learning
If data is the new oil, there is one major difference. Unlike oil, which over the years have suffered from unpredictable supply, for much of the customers, there is only abundance of data. Despite the glut of data, the same customers profess there is often a shortage of actionable information. In…
See Innovations in Cisco GPU Accelerated Data Center at NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference
I always get giddy about going to NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), which is happening next week in San Jose. Just looking at the catalog of sessions gets me dreaming about what artificial intelligence will make possible and more importantly the business benefits that can already be derived fr…
Cisco UCS delivers industry leading GPU density on blade servers
GPUs are becoming ubiquitous in the data center. On one hand, if you’re running virtual desktops you know that modern apps and newer operating systems such as Windows 10 make use of a lot more graphic power than their predecessors. Which means that you need to provide more graphic power when you del…
More of everything you love with Cisco UCS M5 Blade Servers
Yesterday we announced our fifth generation of UCS servers. Today I want to take a deeper look at the M5 blade servers. Tomorrow, I’ll tackle the M5 rack servers. More! More! More! The B200 M5 Blade Server has more of everything you love. More cores, more memory, more GPUs. Based on the Intel® Xeon®…
UCS M5: Making Something Great Even Better
Customers around the world – now 60,000 strong – rely on UCS as their platform for IT innovation and have made it the industry’s system of choice for enterprise applications including big data analytics and business applications. Today, I’m very pleased to introduce another milestone in the UCS jour…
Look Who’s Virtualizing Architectural Design and Graphic Workstations at the GPU Technology Conference
Written by Mike Brennan – @CiscoVDIguy – Product Manager, Desktop Virtualization and Graphics In my role at Cisco, I am fortunate to have the opportunity to meet our Customers who do absolutely amazing things with Cisco UCS and our partners’ technologies. One shining example is CannonDesign,…
Introducing Cisco HyperFlex for GPU-Accelerated VDI at NVIDIA GTC Amsterdam
NVIDIA is holding the first European edition of its successful GPU Technology Conference next week in Amsterdam. Cisco is excited to participate as a Platinum sponsor. We will have subject-matter experts on hand to talk to you about deep-learning, machine learning, virtualized graphics workstations…