UCS

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…

Hi there! This is Vijay Venugopal from the HyperFlex Product Management team at Cisco. I’ve been with Cisco for over 12 years and my current role leading product management for HyperFlex has been the most exciting and rewarding part of my career so far. Cisco HyperFlex continues to see great adoptio…

KD’s (VP, Product Mgt.) blog discusses why Cisco is now offering a multinode rack server. The short answer to why is the increasing need to support scale out, compute intensive workloads which require increased node density in a small form factor. I’m here to dig a little deeper into the hardware. T…

Planning a quick 2 or 3-day trip to Chicago around May 14th? Convince your team that it was a good idea to book a room at the Hyatt Regency or the Marriot Marquis? Or maybe you’re just ahead of your time in wanting to understand what a hyper-available and multicloud world looks like (if you are, you…

Sleep deprived?  If you are one of 200 or so people on my flight back to NYC from Vegas, you sure as heck are!  With another successful NAB in the books, vendors and customers alike make the great trek home, a little worse for the wear.  A week of non-stop meetings, events, solution showcasing, non-…

The run-up to the 2018 National Association of Broadcasters Show is once again upon us, which means it’s time to preview what we’ll be focused on, in our booth and around the NAB Show floor. It’s a preview that necessarily relies on a string of industrial progressions, from SDI (serial digital inter…

A co-worker sent me some infrastructure code to check out and get my opinion. The code was fine, but it was a lot of code… I mean a lot of code. Looking at the thousands of lines of purpose written code I started thinking that there could be a better way. The code was Python and used the UCS Python…

Data is the lifeblood of business. It helps drive deep insights and better decisions, improve processes, and offer a deeper understanding of customers, partners and business. Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) enables us to learn from data, identify patterns and make better decisio…

Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack just keeps getting better. With this newest configuration, Cisco offers a wider range of storage flexibility. The all-flash option ships with solid-state drives, and NVMe PCIe composing the cache tier with 30, 45, or 60 TB of capacity per server. All…