Cisco and Nutanix Team Up in Response to Customer Demand: Another Win for Customer-Centric Innovation

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In the ever-evolving landscape of IT, organizations continually seek solutions that simplify complexity, break down silos, and enhance agility. At Cisco, we’re continually tuned into the demands and requirements of our customer base, and it’s this laser focus that has led to our most recent collaborative venture. We...

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Introducing Cisco Cloud Network Controller on Google Cloud Platform – Part 1

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This year has been quite significant for Cisco’s multicloud networking software evolution. Earlier in the year Cisco introduced, along with other exciting software features announcements, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) support for Cisco Cloud Network Controller (CNC), formerly known as Cisco Cloud APIC. This blog series introduces the GCP...

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Setting a simple standard: Using MQTT at the edge

I shared examples of how organizations can benefit from edge computing – from enabling autonomous vehicles in transportation and preventive maintenance in manufacturing to streamlining compliance for utilities. I also recently shared examples on where the edge really is in edge computing. For operational leaders, edge compute use...

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Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9700 – Part III

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This week is exciting, had opportunity to sit on round table with Cisco’s largest customers on an open ended architecture discussion and their take on past, present and future. More on that some other time let’s pick up last critical aspect of High Performance Data Center design namely...

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Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9710 – Part II

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EMC World was wonderful. It was gratifying to meet industry professionals,  listen in on great presentations and watch the demos for key business enabling technologies that Cisco, EMC and others have brought to fruition.  Its fascinating to see the transition of DC from cost center to a strategic...

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Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9710 – Part I

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Data centers are undergoing a major transition to meet higher performance, scalability, and resiliency requirements with fewer resources, smaller footprint, and simplified designs. These rigorous requirements coupled with major data center trends, such as virtualization, data center consolidation and data growth, are putting a tremendous amount of strain...

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MDS 9700 Scale Out and Scale Up

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This is the final part on the High Performance Data Center Design. We will look at how high performance, high availability and flexibility allows customers to scale up or scale out over time without any disruption to the existing infrastructure. MDS 9710 capabilities are field proved with the...

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Why Upgrade to MDS 9700

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MDS 9500 family has supported customers for more than a decade helping them  through FC speed transitions from 1G, 2G, 4G, 8G and 8G advanced without forklift upgrades. But as we look in the future the MDS 9700 makes more sense for a lot of data center designs. ...

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Serverless in the Datacenter: FaaS on K8s at DevNet Create

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If you’ve ever wanted to learn the fundamentals of serverless and get your hands dirty building a LAMP-like application, DevNet Create has a session for you. On both April 24 and April 25 from 11:45a to 12:30p, I’ll be running an exercise entitled “FONK: FaaS on K8s working...

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Transformation and the New Role of Managed Services

If you are a part of or even peripherally connected to an IT organization or managed services provider, you probably hear the word “transformation” daily, perhaps even more frequently.  Like other well-worn terms such as “Digitization,” “DevOps,” or “Agile,” transformation can mean a lot of different things depending...

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