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June 22, 2016

DATA CENTER

Big Data is a Big Deal for Your Infrastructure (and it is Cool!)

As I author this, I am in my hotel room in Chicago and its Thursday evening. Our core Cisco Big Data team has been here for the past two days focused on planning our worldwide 2017 activities. One thing that is stuck in my mind now after our meetings is the phrase “Infrastructure is Cool!” – it’s a…

May 31, 2016

CLOUD

OpenStack Can Be Complicated .. But It Does Not Have To Be

Another debate is over … and I am not referring to the US presidential election … I am referring to the growing maturity of OpenStack and its level of adoption in the marketplace. Over 7,500 people attended the last OpenStack Summit in Austin, TX. The energy at the event was palpable. Various organi…

June 20, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Red Hat at the Center of IT Transformation

The open hybrid-cloud and big data are at the center of the IT transformation that will enable every business, country, and city to become a digital and technology organization. Cisco and Red Hat share a common vision for the future of IT. That’s why Cisco is going big at the Red Hat Summit, which k…

January 8, 2015

DATA CENTER

Red Hat and Cisco bring Application Policy to OpenStack environments

On January 13, 2015, Cisco will celebrate a year of industry adoption of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a ground breaking SDN architecture. It will include a public webcast with ACI customers and ecosystem partners describing a range of new solutions that dramatically simplify data center…

November 3, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Red Hat – All In with OpenStack for the Enterprise

When it comes to driving innovation in next generation data center architectures, open source is clearly at the forefront. A perfect example is OpenStack, which is defining the future of cloud computing across private, public and hybrid clouds. This innovation is being driven by a strong and vibrant…

September 4, 2014

PARTNER

Cisco and Red Hat to Build On-Ramps to the Intercloud

CIOs are embracing cloud to deliver I.T. applications and services to employees, partners and customers more flexibly and at lower cost.  As cloud moves from experimentation into the mainstream, OpenStack and other open source technologies have emerged as a catalyst for cloud innovation. That’s why…

June 11, 2014

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged S5|Ep14 OpenShift on OpenStack

Welcome to the season finale of Engineers Unplugged! We are taking a break to prepare for Season 7 next week. In this week’s episode, Daneyon Hansen (@daneyonhansen) and Diane Mueller (@pythondj) deep-dive on OpenShift on Openstack, including Heat and GearD. Watch for the technology, stay for…

April 9, 2014

DATA CENTER

Open Source Acceleration for Applications

In previous blogs I have described how organizations are maturing beyond provisioning of individual servers to provisioning of richer cloud-based application stacks.  Known as platform-as-a-service (PaaS), this capability takes cloud technology beyond infrastructure to automate the application life…

January 27, 2014

DATA CENTER

Check out what’s new in the latest release of UCS Director!

Cisco’s award winning converged infrastructure management software solution just got even better!  In the latest release of Cisco UCS Director, we’ve added broader and deeper infrastructure support across the compute, network, storage and virtualization layers, as well making the product even…