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Learn about Cisco’s Data Center and Cloud Management Software at #VMworld
This has been an exciting year for the Cisco Data Center and Cloud Management team – and we’ll be featuring several recent data center software innovations at VMworld this week. You won’t want to miss our new demos of Cisco UCS Director (formerly Cloupia), Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (Cis…
Cisco UCS in a converged world
After a refreshing summer road trip through the beautiful Michigan Upper Peninsula I am happy to be back at work. I even got a fresh perspective on the phrase “cherry picking”. The geek in me got to see the “Nuclear Energy” sculpture at site where Enrico Fermi’s Manhattan…
Serious Simplification Advancement
Recently I spent time at Cisco Live Orlando where I caught up with Trey Layton, CTO, VCE. We had an opportunity to talk about automation and orchestration of Vblock with Cisco UCS Director (formerly Cloupia). Over recent months, we have been doing even more work for our customers, collectively betwe…
Data Protection Solutions for the Vblock System
Today , I met Chandra Jacobs, Product Marketing at EMC to talk about her experience at Cisco Live 2013 in Florida and the solutions she presented. Chandra – Can you introduce yourself ? I love creative and challenging projects in the emerging technology product space. I have a background in techno…
Cisco UCS at EMC World 2013
We handed out a stack of these buttons for the Cisco booth staff to wear this year and that sums up my favorite part of EMC World: it’s an infrastructure party. This is a place where you’re going to talk with people at the heart of the data center and IT, and the conversations all start there. Our…
Change is the only constant in data center infrastructure
By: VCE CTO Trey Layton at EMC World 2013 (@treylayton) Greek philosopher, Heraclitus said “change is the only constant in life.” And without question, change is the lifeblood to our industry and like any transition, albeit from VHS to digital, from board games to mobile apps, or even dare I sa…
Unlock Your Converged Infrastructure’s Potential
Successful IT managers today and in the future need to quickly adapt to changing business strategies. But how does IT increase efficiency, support more applications and provide additional services with flat or decreasing IT budgets? In my previous blog, I discussed how Cisco, EMC, NetApp, and VCE in…
#EngineersUnplugged S3|Special Edition: #UnleashSimplicity
In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Cisco’s Dominick Delfino (@domdelfino) and VCE’s Trey Layton (@treylayton) take on a number of announcements from VCE, and trending in the data center space. Roll the tape:…
VCE: Converging on a better data center
Cisco’s Unified Data Center strategy is rooted in the idea that customers shouldn’t be put in the position of DIY technology integration. It’s just an unfair ask given everything that IT and LOB leaders contend with above and beyond the infrastructure. As technology has evolved, the component par…