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October 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco and OpenStack: Juno Release – Part 2

The tenth OpenStack release codenamed Juno was released on October 16, 2014. This press release provides a good summary of what to expect in Juno. It also discusses important new capabilities included in the more than 340 new enhancements built in to Juno and highlights different usecases that showc…

October 14, 2014

DATA CENTER

Changing the Economics of Desktop and App Virtualization at the Enterprise Edge

In my last post I discussed how Cisco UCS Mini is helping us expand beyond the traditional confines of the data center, to deliver desktop and app virtualization with exceptional user experience, manageability and TCO savings – at the enterprise edge. We’re only going to see more investment and focu…

May 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

Breaking through Performance Barriers: Desktop Virtualization at Cisco Live

We’re halfway into Cisco Live!  Each year I find more and more attendees are coming to talk to us about running various desktop delivery models on UCS.  Some observations from folks I’ve chatted with: More and more of you are asking about NVIDIA GRID solutions for graphics intensive use-cases.  I ha…