May 2014 was a big month for me! I had a long trip to Australia and San Francisco for Cisco Live. This was my 2ndCisco Live that I've attended, and the global event is making a positive impression on me. I've been to scores of eve...
Written By Volker Tegtmeyer, Senior Manager Product & Solution Marketing The industry is going through a huge business transformation. Enterprises want to focus their resources and investments on their core business rather tha...
According to Gartner's Andrew Lerner, many of the networking practitioners running mainstream corporate networks have only surface-level knowledge of OpenStack as evidenced in his recent blog. To assist networkers to understa...
In this week's episode, Robert Novak (@gallifreyan) and Steve McQuerry (@smcquerry) talk about Big Data on UCS. Real world use cases including UCS Manager, UCS Central, and more. Big Data, Big Unicorn, courtesy of Robert Novak a...
Written By Igor Dayen, Manager, Service Provider Marketing, Cisco Cisco Live! 2014 in San Francisco was bigger, better, and bolder than ever this year. There was a record breaking 25,000 registered customers, partners, press and a...
When we talk about Cisco UCS success, we could boast about how, in just five short years, Cisco has earned the#1 position for x86 blade server sales in the Americas. Or, brag on how we achieved 39% revenue growth in a period where...
With the recent exponential growth of mobile devices, it is hard not to look ahead for the next big thing that will transform technology as we know it. One current hot topic is 5G. While most industry experts agree it is a ways of...
What is integrated infrastructure? Major analysts firms differ slightly on the taxonomy and makeup of the various integrated systems that comprise this market segment. However, they do agree that these systems include a combinatio...
Cloud has revolutionized the way we develop, deploy, buy and sell. Businesses today are increasingly looking to add hybrid, private and public cloud solutions to their existing managed services to deploy cost-effective solutions. ...
Historical data is now an essential tool for businesses as they struggle to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, manage risk and perform predictive analytics that help improve business outcomes. While recent data i...
Data center strategy is a critical part of business strategy. In fact, the ways and means of IT deployment make all the difference between an efficient, successful organization and an ineffective one. Therefore, to align and adapt...
Cisco's First Trifecta This week IDC released the calendar 1Q14 server market share tracker report, which is starting to generate press given the news that Cisco UCS has achieved the#1 x86 blade server revenue market share p...