virtualization
Cisco and Citrix: Delivering the Unified Platform for Desktop and Application Virtualization
Today Citrix announced the latest advancements for XenApp and XenDesktop, built on the fourth release of their FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA). With this evolution come significant improvements in Citrix Provisioning Services, Citrix Receiver, FIPS compliance, single console manageability ac…
Analytics: A New Model for Creating Great, Personalized Customer Experiences
While certainly exciting, buying a new house, can also serve as a revealing exercise in understanding data science. A couple of weeks ago I went to my bank to investigate my financial options for buying a new house. To my surprise, my account manager gave me a stack of paperwork to fill out—and I so…
IT Services Faster!
Most of us expect immediate delivery both as consumers and as employees. As employees, we are no longer willing to wait weeks for IT to deliver what we need. IT departments feel the pain that ensues from our urgency in the form of shadow IT. Shadow IT results in the double trouble of higher risk an…
Cisco MDS for Small to Cloud-Scale Data Centers
Superior Platforms, Scale, and Operational Simplicity Data Center trends like Virtualization, Solid State Drives, DC consolidation and Data Explosion are putting a tremendous amount of strain on the infrastructure. These challenges need targeted and multifaceted approach. It has to be holistic sol…
It’s All About The Applications. But Do You Speak Developer? Do Your Developers Speak Infrastructure?
Infrastructure matters. It’s the foundation on which everything else in IT is built. The purpose of data center infrastructure is to run applications, yet the relationship between infrastructure admins and application developers is often dismal. Are you an infrastructure admin? When’s the last time …
Where Virtualization Does and Doesn’t Make Sense – An Optimization Primer
Written By Wayne Cullen, Senior Manager, Service Provider Architectures Along with cloud computing, M2M, collaboration, and hoodie sweatshirts, virtualization is a trend du jour. Like all trends, it’s based on an old idea (dating back to the mainframe era) that has now been reimagined for new purpo…
Will Software Defined Networking Actually Happen?
As a writer for the IT media, conference speaker, and co-host of the Packet Pushers podcast, I cover emerging networking technologies often. The new tech that comes across my screen ranges in value from “I can’t believe that got funded,” to “Why has no one thought of this before?” and everything in…
Cisco Evolved Programmable Network: Virtualized Services in an EPN World
By Greg Nehib, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Part 2 – Virtualized Services in an EPN World? In part one of this series Gina covered the basic definition of an Evolved Programmable Network or EPN and its linkage to the Cisco Evolved Services Platform (ESP). Figure 1 offers a quick visual recap. F…
Cisco Joins China Mobile at Mobile Asia Expo (MAE)
Mobile is a fast-changing industry! Every year there are new devices, new technologies, and trends. China is one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world with: 1.2 billion mobile connections and growing. The number of 3G mobile telephone users reached 386 million in November 2013, a growt…