Cisco UCS? Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data delivered industry's first-ever 100-terabyte (TB) and best 3-TB and 30-TB results on the TPC Express Benchmark HS (TPCx-HS). These results demonstrate Cisco's leadership with best ...
Building a successful recurring revenue business is a common challenge facing Cisco partners. From service contract renewals to upsell and cross-sell opportunities, we know that post-sales initiatives often take a back seat, causi...
Traditionally, incumbent companies have relied on three main competitive advantages to maintain their leadership positions over newcomers: 1) large customer bases, 2) strong brand equity, and 3) access to large amounts of inexpens...
On November 3rd, Cisco announced that we are extending our Security Everywhere strategy with new solutions and services aimed at helping our customers gain greater visibility, context, and control from the cloud to the network to ...
Back in September 2014 Cisco acquired private OpenStack cloud service company Metacloud (http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?articleId=1489587). Initially known as Cisco OpenStack Private Cloud (COPC) and now known as ...
I am only going to say this once.This is our third episode for what I have personally termed the 'NX-OS' exposed series. The first two have been about programmability. Exploring the exposed interfaces, Object Mod...
It is no secret that Manufacturing and related industrial verticals will be significantly impacted by the Internet of Things (IoT) and the new business models evolving from digital disruption. Many industry luminaries and market-...
Everyone has had the stressful experience of being in a large building and not knowing where they were. Try adding that uncertainty to a hospital visit and see how your blood pressure reacts when you finally find yourself in the d...
When Snam, an Italian gas company, needed to update its data centers why did it choose Cisco quipment-specifically Nexus switches-to do the job? Because the Nexus switches were the only platform to offer Overlay Transport Virtuali...
At Cisco, we have long believed in the power of relationships. Recently, I've laid out how we plan to be the most strategic technology partner to our customers, and while we are very focused on the opportunities ahead, it's clear ...
Big Data. Big Responsibilities. Robb says "Splunk runs best on UCS" Traditional tools for managing and monitoring IT infrastructures are out of step with the constant change happening in today's data centers. When problems ...
ACI, the SDN Purpose-Built for Data Center Operations and Automation A couple of years ago we talked about our SDN vision and strategy, and a little over a year ago we started shipping the ACI solution. Since then over 1,000 custo...