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November 3, 2016

DATA CENTER

Green Cloud bets on Cisco UCS S-Series to power new lines of business

Size matters—especially as physical data center space becomes more coveted at premium prices. So why wouldn’t you pack more into less, for less, if you could? That’s the approach that Green Cloud Technologies is taking with its investment in Cisco UCS S-Series storage-optimized servers. Green Cloud…

November 1, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Active Data Demands Agile Infrastructure

By now, we’ve all heard the estimate that by 2020, 50 billion devices will be connected. Some estimates are higher, some lower, but we can all agree…it’s a lot. What we know and can see is that more data is being generated today than ever before. And the nature of the data is changing. It’s ge…

November 1, 2016

DATA CENTER

Understanding the Cost Premium of Public Cloud for Active Data

If you’ve read any of my past blogs, you’ll know I focus a lot on the economic impact of Cisco UCS. Today I’m comparing the TCO of hosting data intensive workloads on-prem vs. in the public cloud. What started out as a 2RU rackmount consolidation discussion (more on that next week) turned into a pub…