UCS

A Great Time to be Computing The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) has never been better, which is a strange thing to say about something that has always been great! Recent debuts of the M5 architecture, the 6454 Fabric Interconnect, the C480 ML, and the multi-node C4200 along with the rock-solid…

Cisco continues to invest and enhance our data center automation and private cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform, Cisco UCS Director. At the same time, we are leveraging the Cisco Intersight platform to deliver additional value and operational benefits when coupled with UCS Director. G…

With 12,000 Cisco UCS servers installed in 22 company data centers worldwide, Cisco IT had a big challenge tracking when individual UCS units were due for replacement as part of our infrastructure refresh program. Compounding the problem: Many different server models were installed at different time…

Arvie Martin and Marc Schneider recently joined us to highlight the new Cisco UCS C4200 Rack Server Chassis, supporting up to four UCS C125 M5 Server nodes. I recommend that you watch the show and then join us this Thursday for the workshop to learn more, even ask questions. This new addition to the…

SAP customers have found Cisco HyperFlex responds faster to the demands of their production workloads and improves business services with agility, flexibility and simplicity.  SAP data centers around the world are already using Cisco HyperFlex to run HANA and to modernize their infrastructure, unloc…

There’s a new sheriff in Tech Town: Cisco HyperFlex.   IT teams across every industry and geography are transforming enterprise application deployments with hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).  HCI consolidates compute, networking and storage into a single system.  And Cisco HyperFlex is the fastes…

Fall is upon us, which means once again it’s time for SAP TechEd in Las Vegas and Barcelona, twin cities which couldn’t be more similar. Legend has it that Hercules founded Barcelona when one of his ships wrecked on the site during his search for the Golden Fleece. Since then, it’s convenient locat…

What makes a good hospital? Quick care? A friendly nurse? Better-than-average Jell-O? Brazil’s second largest hospital center—Hospital Alemano Oswaldo Cruz (HAOC)—has a pretty clear vision of what a good hospital should be. And it goes beyond softer sheets and better food. Their CEO, Fabio Katayama…

How many times have you heard the phrase: “The network is down” in your business? This may mean that anything but the network is malfunctioning (it may be the server, storage or others), however, the always-guilty network-admin is usually the first one to blame. There have been several times where p…