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Changes, Part 2 – So, What Do We Do With That?
Changes, Part 2 – So, What Do We Do With That?
Last week, in part 1 of this 3 part series, we discussed how Digitization* is driving change. We also covered how Changes (cue** David Bowie) are manifesting themselves in...
Feb. 26, 2016
Changes, Part 1 – David Bowie, Containers and Cisco Live Berlin
Changes, Part 1 – David Bowie, Containers and Cisco Live Berlin
On January 10, David Bowie passed away. He was an icon in the music world, with a career spanning 5 decades, and selling 140 million albums, with many going to...
Feb. 19, 2016
#CiscoChampion Radio, S3|Ep. 1. Open NX-OS Enabling a Dev Ops Driven Data Center
#CiscoChampion Radio, S3|Ep. 1. Open NX-OS Enabling a Dev Ops Driven Data Center
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re talking about Open NX-OS Enabling a Dev Ops Driven Data Center
Jan. 12, 2016
Top 3 Ways New ACI Innovations Improve Your Data Center
Top 3 Ways New ACI Innovations Improve Your Data Center
Yesterday, Cisco announced a new software release for ACI. If you are looking to automate IT, or build out your cloud environment, and want to do so in an open fashion...
Dec. 4, 2015
Executing on Our Vision and Strategy: The Future of Networking for an Application Centric World
Executing on Our Vision and Strategy: The Future of Networking for an Application Centric World
We shared our vision for the future of networking over a year and a half ago. Today, we continue to execute on our vision and strategy. Our customers and partners continue to...
Dec. 3, 2015
Bring the Industrial Revolution to your Oracle Workloads (Learn More by Stopping at Booth 801 at OOW 2015)
Bring the Industrial Revolution to your Oracle Workloads (Learn More by Stopping at Booth 801 at OOW 2015)
When I think of how technology has changed in the data center, I am always reminded of the history of the industrial revolution.  Wikipedia begins its
Oct. 15, 2015
Cisco and Platfora Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise Scale Analytics
Cisco and Platfora Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise Scale Analytics
Analytics will continue to take center stage as the volume of data generated by embedded systems increases and vast pools of structured and unstructured
Sept. 23, 2015
Part 2: Why not Initiate a “Save to Invest” Program for your Data Center?
Part 2: Why not Initiate a “Save to Invest” Program for your Data Center?
Two weeks ago, in my previous blog, I invited you to consider ways in which you could initiate a "Save to Invest" program for your data center. That is,
Sept. 23, 2015
What is Cisco’s SDN Strategy for the Data Center?
What is Cisco’s SDN Strategy for the Data Center?
Cisco has a broad spectrum of customers across a wide range of markets and geographies. These customers have a diverse set of requirements, operational models and use cases, meaning that...
Sept. 9, 2015
The Long Road to the Cloud – Changes in Application Deployment Criteria
The Long Road to the Cloud – Changes in Application Deployment Criteria
In today’s world as more and more customers prepare to take advantage of cloud technologies, they are finding that private cloud and colocation services
Sept. 3, 2015
Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 2: Reduced Downtime, Happier Customers and Improved TCO with SAP, Hortonworks and Cis …
Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 2: Reduced Downtime, Happier Customers and Improved TCO with SAP, Hortonworks and Cis …
Following the Hortonworks Blog, we are lucky to have James Gold from SAP as next blogger in the Why I love Big Data guest partner series. James explains
June 3, 2015
Tour the Cisco Allen Data Center
Tour the Cisco Allen Data Center
I had been looking forward to revisiting one of my favorite data center's.  We had done this first back in 2011 and that video continues to do pretty...
April 20, 2015