Intel

June 10, 2019

HEALTHCARE

Cisco Hyperconverged Infrastructure now supports end-to-end Epic EMR

More than 250 million patients indirectly interact with Epic through their electronic medical record (EMR). So, if you live in the U.S. like me, there’s a high probability that when interacting with medical professionals, Epic is part of that experience as the software helping physicians and clinici…

January 9, 2019

PARTNER

NRF 2019 preview: How Cisco and its partner ecosystem are changing the Retail Industry!

I have been in the Consumer and Content industries for quite some time, but I gotta tell you, what we have brewing with our partner ecosystem at the National Retail Federation show is pretty awesome and quite “transformational” if I do say so myself. ***Note: NRF is Jan. 13-15, 2019 in NYC, NY! You…

November 15, 2018

INNOVATION

Innovating in a Corporation: The Best of Both Worlds

(Note: This article was co-authored by Maciej Kranz and Alex Goryachev) We’ve all heard the romantic anecdotes of entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs are the ones that work in corporations while working on their innovation. These are they who toiled furiously day and night in their garage, or took o…

September 11, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco, Intel and Microsoft Accelerate the Transition from SDI to IP with an Open Source Toolkit for Media Software Vendo …

Written by Peter Bosch & Andre Surcouf Live media production facilities primarily use serial digital interface (SDI) for interconnections between media applications, media appliances and other bespoke media equipment. The transition from SDI to IP aids in replacing traditional SDI cables with Et…

July 18, 2018

DATA CENTER

Engineering the new performance class of hyperconverged infrastructure

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is a popular topic so it’s no surprise that the announcement of HyperFlex 3.5 to kick off Cisco Live created a lot of buzz throughout the show. The release brings many exciting enhancements to the HX platform as highlighted in Vijay Venugopal’s blog titled “HyperF…

June 15, 2017

CLOUD

A Rich Partner Ecosystem for a Successful Cloud Strategy

I continue to bet on Cloud Computing (I am not referring to the horse that won the Preakness Stakes ahead of ‘Classic Empire’) but as I place that bet … my assumption … is that the various major industry players will continue to work together in a meaningful way toward the progressive standardizatio…

A World’s First at ANGA COM 2017: 96 MHz Symmetrical Full Duplex Broadband Capacity (No Really)

Cisco to Demonstrate Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 (“FDX”) By John Chapman, Cisco Fellow, CTO, Cable Access, Cisco It occurred to me recently that it was in 1997 that the first DOCSIS-based cable modems first entered the market in a meaningful way. Five years ago, in 2012, we celebrated the 15-year birthda…

January 18, 2017

DATA CENTER

Solid State Speed. Cisco and Intel Publish World Record Performance for Big Data Systems

Cisco continues to lead the industry in performance for Big Data systems, this time smashing the previous TPCx-HS benchmark world record by over 14% while simultaneously reducing cost by 5%. The TPC developed the TPCx-HS benchmark several years ago as Big Data systems grew from a curiosity to one of…

November 22, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Intel on Hyperconvergence and HyperFlex

  Cisco’s UCS portfolio has grown significantly over the past few months. Just recently we announced our new storage server brand, the S Series. Before that, a few months earlier, we brought to market HyperFlex Systems, Cisco’s complete hyperconverged infrastructure offering engineered on Cisc…