VMworld 2013 opens on August 25th, 2013, at the MOs cone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. Cisco is a Global Diamond Sponsor, as we highlight our Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS), Solutions for virtualizati...
I love being an engineer. I mean I really friggen dig it man. When I was a kid, I would take apart everything I could to see not only how it worked but to see if I could mod it and make it do different stuff. It started out small ...
In our last "Ask the Futurist" blog post, I discussed how the Internet of Everything (IoE) is working to connect doctors with their patients through electronic medical records. The subject of IoE's role in the health care industry...
Cloud has had a deep impact on the fundamental ways in which IT services are consumed. Yet we are only on the cusp of the transformation. Cisco estimates that connections among people, processes, data, and things will surge from "...
Almost a year ago, I wrote my first blog post detailing what customers have been saying about their UCS experiences in our Case Studies, Solution Briefs, etc. The findings have been updated with the latest studies. While the perce...
With just a week ahead of VMworld 2013 in San Francisco, there's a lot of planning to do. For example: Saying"thank goodness it's not Vegas" Finding a suitable bacon-themed party to attend (I'll explain) Checking out som...
I'm excited to announce that Cisco has just released usNIC as a feature of theUCS C-Series Rack Serversproduct line. usNIC is available since the release 1.5(2) of theCisco UCS C-Series Integrated Management Controller. ...
Many network administrators over the years have viewed information security technologies as somewhat of a necessary evil, as opposed to a necessity. Security costs like the purchase and maintenance of firewalls, web filtering, ant...
Every Friday, we'll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories of the week, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here's what you might have missed thi...
Think back to your favorite class in school. How would that class be different if it took place today? My favorite was a 7th grade art class. While it's hard to imagine Mrs. Vincent in a modern classroom with a tablet or smartphon...
Deploying new servers is a routine task in data centers. Whether it is tied to server refreshes, net new compute initiatives or to an expansion of existing compute capacity, adding new servers can be a time consuming activity for ...
Today marks an important milestone for one of our most strategic data center products and the foundation of virtual networking portfolio. Five years ago, the Nexus 1000V virtual switch was the pioneer in the virtual networking mar...