UCS

March 30, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco and SAS Software. Trusted. Powerful. Comprehensive.

‘…It takes a big village…’ so to speak when it comes to bringing enterprise-class big data & analytics solutions to the market. It is for this reason that our Cisco UCS team partners with several key ISVs in the big data segment be they Hadoop vendors, analytics providers, MySQL platforms, etc.…

March 27, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Spelunking. Exploring Cisco’s Splunk Community and Other News Bits

  Splunk is one of our key Cisco UCS ISV Partners in the area of data and analytics for the Data Center.  Big Data as we all know throws off tons of structured and unstructured data and the ability to discover its meaning and therefore value requires good analytics capabilities. This is where S…

March 8, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Docker – Enabling Modern Apps with an Open Strategy

Cisco and Docker are working with our ecosystem of strategic partners and the open source community to develop open and unique solutions. This alliance is another step in the strategy Cisco has been implementing for the past several years.…

March 1, 2017

CLOUD

Guest Post: Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) at the Core of Private Cloud

Have you ever wondered why some organizations are more successful in delivering services and applications with serious resource constraints to its every increasing distributed workforce? Chances are the IT teams are using some variation of cloud computing to solve these and other modern day IT chall…

February 20, 2017

DATA CENTER

There’s Never Been a Better Time …. to Reduce Your Data Center Software Costs with Cisco UCS #NeverBetter

Enterprise software licensing is complex, costly and easy to lose track of, especially in these days of servers on demand via infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and rapid setup and movement of virtual machines.  Many organizations are finding that vendor software audits uncover under-licensing resul…

February 9, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack

Enterprises need a scalable, flexible hybrid cloud solution that 1) responds with agility and ease, 2) is simple-to-manage, and 3) scales on demand, while retaining on-premise benefits. Where you are on your cloud journey may vary, but what’s clear is that it’s a hybrid IT journey. Cisco is accelera…

December 2, 2016

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Are you ready for Pokémon Go?

Did you know Pokémon Go set the record for the Apple App Store downloads in the first week?  Not only that, it has gone on to break five Guinness World Records: Most revenue grossed by a mobile game in the first month Most downloaded, first month Most international charts topped simultaneously for…

November 22, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Intel on Hyperconvergence and HyperFlex

  Cisco’s UCS portfolio has grown significantly over the past few months. Just recently we announced our new storage server brand, the S Series. Before that, a few months earlier, we brought to market HyperFlex Systems, Cisco’s complete hyperconverged infrastructure offering engineered on Cisc…

November 15, 2016

DATA CENTER

“P” is for Performance… The new Cisco UCS S3260 has plenty of it!

Earlier this month we introduced our new Cisco UCS S-Series Storage Servers, with the S3260 being first in market. The S Series is a new storage-optimized server category in the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS) portfolio designed specifically to address the needs of data intensive workloads suc…