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On May 31st, Cisco announced the C4200 Multinode Chassis and C125 M5 server. Some of you may have been taking that week off due to Memorial Day. And I bet even more of you had the temerity to take a nice summer vacation and didn’t notice our new server. So I wanted to write another blog to catch eve…

I’ve been a big fan of automation almost since I discovered computers many years ago. It is my favorite thing about Cisco UCS. Today, guest blogger: Olli Walsdorf, Technical Marketing Engineer, discusses using Ansible with UCS. Olli has more than 20 years of storage experience, working in different…

This post was co-authored by Rajesh Shroff  66 years in the making! It sounds like a long time, but first we had to wait for a few milestones to precede us: 1951 – UNIVAC pioneers use of magnetic tape for storage 1993 – Severe Tire Damage is the first band to live stream 2007 – Ne…

In this new digital economy, data is king and storing it requires a well-funded army. At least it does when you maintain the status quo with legacy storage solutions. In this scenario, cost and complexity often impede a business’s ability to scale and adapt to these new digital demands. This signals…

I promised a follow up in my recent blog about Facebook’s new Bryce Canyon storage platform. While the title of this blog may sound like it questions the new platform’s capabilities. It like the previous blog aims to help you understand why it is perfectly suited for Facebook’s unique ne…

History regularly repeats itself. Sometimes it’s exciting and other times not so much. A current market transition I’m excited about happens to be occurring across the entire data center touching compute, storage, and networking. It’s the shift to shared nothing architectures and it takes me b…

Last week at Cisco Partner Summit 2016 we celebrated the introduction Cisco HyperFlex Systems. More importantly, we gathered in San Diego to celebrate the Power of Partnerships. Cisco is an established leader in data center convergence: bringing together the people, process and technology of IT, but…

Do you need a server and storage solution for your remote sites, to ensure that your business critical applications are always available? Cisco and StorMagic have a solution for you.…

This week has been the semi-annual OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, GA. In a rare occurrence I’ve been able to be here as an attendee, which has given me wide insight into a world of Open Source development I rarely get to see outside of some interpersonal conversations with DevOps people. (If you…