From baby boomers to generation X to digital generation of the twenty-first century, it is more important to find similarities in people expectations and experiences than to focus on the differences. We all want respect, pea...
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...
After months of speculation, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced on Monday that they are expecting their first child. In light of this announcement, there is now pressure for a strict timeline to implement new royal succes...
This post is part of a new series featuring Brian Higgins, Principal Healthcare Consultant at Comstor US. Comstor is a recognized global leader in Cisco product distribution and an established provider of networking and advanced t...
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 Cisco Data Center Services, we've been building towards this for the past 3 or 4 years. We're formalised our approach over the past year. Our early adopter customers have already given us terrific feedback. And tomo...
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was in London last week at a conference. I picked up the badge shown in the photo below, and it made me laugh, and I thought it would be a good image to pass on. VCE's Vblock ...
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...