Hyperconverged Infrastructure with Harvester: The start of the Journey

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Deploying and running data center infrastructure management – compute, networking, and storage – has traditionally been manual, slow, and arduous. Data center staffers are accustomed to doing a lot of command line configuration and spending hours in front of data center terminals. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is the way...

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All Tunnels Lead to GENEVE

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As a global citizen, I’m sure you came here to read about Genève (French) or Geneva (English), the city situated in the western part of Switzerland. It’s a city or region famous for many reasons including the presence of a Cisco R&D Center in the heart of the...

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Economic Benefits of Virtualizing the CCAP Core with a Microservices Based Architecture

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ArchitectureService providers are going through a digitalization journey. And one aspect of that journey is the virtualization of their service delivery infrastructure. At Cisco, we are making that transition easier for our customers by creating a common virtualization platform across mobile 5G, cable vCCAP, and Telco vBNG. This...

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Why 5G is Changing our Approach to Security

While earlier generations of cellular technology (such as 4G LTE) focused on ensuring connectivity, 5G takes connectivity to the next level by delivering connected experiences from the cloud to clients. 5G networks are virtualized and software-driven, and they exploit cloud technologies. New use cases will unlock countless applications,...

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Automation, Learning, and Testing Made Easier With Cisco Modeling Labs Enterprise v2.0

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Cisco Modeling Labs – Enterprise v2.0 is here, sporting a complete rewrite of the software and a slew of cool, new features to better serve your education, network testing, and CI/CD automation needs. Version 2.0 still gives you a robust network simulation platform with a central store of...

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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 Cisco SD-Branch is better than a ‘white box’

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A typical branch office IT installation consists of multiple point products, each having a specific function, engineered into a rigid topology. Changing something in that chain, be it adding a new function or connection, increasing bandwidth, or introducing encryption, affects multiple separate products. This introduces risk, increases time...

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