Dr. William A. Kennedy knows how having a sick child can burden a family. In the 1970s, his brother suffered from metastatic Ewing's sarcoma. Getting him the care he needed at a hospital 25 miles away was a full-time job for their...
A little over a month ago we had a chance to present as session in conjunction with Eric Sammer of Cloudera on Designing Hadoop for the Enterprise Data Centerand findings at Strata + Hadoop World 2012 . Taking a look back, we...
As expected a lot of talks, sessions and interest this year about the reality of the cloud deployment and hybrid cloud at Gartner DC Las Vegas. Cisco is now perceived as a very credible player in cloud -In fact a quick...
This week at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, Cisco Services is unveiling Cisco Domain Ten(SM)-Cisco's Framework for Simplifying Data Center and Cloud Transformation. https://www.youtube.com/wa...
On this week's Engineers Unplugged, HDS's Andrew Nielsen (@virtualkjell) and Cisco's J Metz (@drjmetz) discuss a recent announcement and validated design, Hitachi UCP on Cisco UCS. Here are the basics: Andrew Nielsen from...
In my blog last week I introduced a series of conversations in which Mike Spanbauer, Industry analyst at Current Analysis, Cisco Executives, Jim McHugh and Brian Schwarz discussed several topics. One of the topics they discu...
As 2012 comes to a close, it's a good time to reflect on what we've experienced in data centre virtualisation over the past 12 months. Let's start with our customers. We're seeing Australian businesses of all sizes and industry ve...
At the Gartner DC conference in Las Vegas, Cisco SVP and General Manager Data Center Group David Yen delivered a key note speech yesterday highlighting the importance of a convergence infrastructure (starting with UCS)  ...
In my previous blog, we looked at how Catalyst switches can be used to assess video application readiness in the network before rolling out a video based collaboration application. In this blog, let us take a look at available too...
I'm one of the lucky ones. Many of my peers work in companies that aren't as forward looking about IT as Cisco is. Where they struggle to keep up with the demands of today's employees, I'm fortunate to work in an environment that ...
A story came out today showcasing the platform built to power Xerox Managed Print Services (MPS), and it's hard to describe better example of how Cisco's data center technology comes together to help unlock the full potential...
Today, everyone at Cisco is excited about the release of a new book - "The Human Face of Big Data" by Rick Smolan, a former Time, Life, and National Geographic photographer best known as the creator of the "Day in the Life" book s...