Some very good thoughts about Why should you care about Cisco UCS

Folks, I wanted to share a few very good articles and web documents coming from friends into one condensed updated post about all the great things that Cisco UCS can provide to your organization : Last performances update about our solution : In the three years since its introduction, Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS™) [...]

Nexus 1000V Product Family Public Webcast Series for Customers & Partners

Dear customers and partners, I’m delighted to invite you to the next wave of webinars related to our Virtual Data Center products line.  Feel free to register to each relevant sessions and contact me if you need more details about one of them at mneefs@cisco.com. Date Technical Track Topics Webcast 2/14/12 Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) [...]

UCS and Nexus 1000V Network Architectures and Best Practices

        UCS and Nexus 1000V Network Architectures and Best Practices Forum Invitation!   The Cisco Data Center Server Access and Virtualization Technology Group would like to personally invite you to the UCS and Nexus 1000V Network Architecture and Best Practices Forum. This event will provide and equip you with the latest information [...]

Before and after VXI

Recent studies have revealed that over 60% of enterprise companies plans to deploy desktop virtualization in some way over the next 3 to 4 years.  From a TCO point of view the advantages of desktop virtualization are simply amazing. As we move further into the so called “post-pc era”, having the ability to “port over” [...]

Re-defining Fabric Scale: Thinking Beyond the “Box”

Today we are making a significant announcement with several new innovations across our data center and switching portfolio that showcase how our customers can build large scale-up and scale-out data center networks.  While the press release does a great job (thanks Lee!) of highlighting all the innovations across the Nexus Unified Fabric portfolio and the [...]

And if after all Unified Computing System (a.k.a UCS) was a simple as that to deploy…

Ever wondered how look and feel would it be to manage the architectural breakthrough Unified Computing System from Cisco ? You’re a just a few clicks away to make it happen… 1/ Download our UCSM emulator and follow installation procedure at : http://developer.cisco.com/web/unifiedcomputing/ucsemulatordownload 2 / Take a look to these short video’s bringing you sequentialy through [...]

Scalable Cloud Network with Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches and VXLAN

Many customers are building private or public clouds. Intrinsic to cloud computing is having multiple tenants with numerous applications using the cloud infrastructure. Each of these tenants and applications needs to be logically isolated from each other, even at the networking level. For example, a three-tier application can have multiple virtual machines requiring logically isolated [...]

Fabric Extender architecture extensions

Building on the success of the Fabric Extender concept that was introduced first with the Nexus 2000, then with the embedded connectivity in UCS blade chassis, Cisco is proposing two innovative extensions for this architecture : Adapter FEX and VM-FEX. Adapter FEX offers unique functionality that is actually familiar for customers who have already deployed [...]

Cisco buys cloud service provider software newScale

Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately-held newScale, a provider of software that delivers a self service portal for IT organisations to select and deploy cloud services within their businesses. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Cloud computing represents a major shift in the evolution of the Internet, and as more [...]

Evolutionary Fabric, Revolutionary Scale: A Nondisruptive Way to Handle Dynamic Data Center and Cloud Environments

Cisco’s market-leading data center solutions enable Business partners to participate in fast-growing markets and meet their customer’s most challenging demands. As part of its vision and evolution, Cisco is introducing new unified fabric innovations that deliver on architectural flexibility, investment protection, and operational simplicity in a secure and scalable manner. Cisco will announce these innovations [...]

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