In part one of this series we covered the internals of HDDs, in part two we went overthe internals of SSD, In part three we continue reviewing storage concepts to refresh or learn the right lingo. Lets start by understanding "Redu...
ACI goes beyond SDN to help customers deliver business outcomes and not just network device programmability. That's part of the reason over 175 customers signed up to trial the APIC during the hardware beta. Now Cisco ...
Financial Services firms are being challenged and forced to change the way that their applications, information, content, compute, storage, and network resources are deployed and consumed. It is a multi-dimensional issue that is f...
The Internet of Everything (IoE) is becoming more real than ever, particularly in education. As we begin to see this massive transformation taking place, schools for both K-12 and higher education are utilizing Cisco networks to r...
This blog was co-authored by Kevin Brooks, Alex Chiu, Joel Esler, Martin Lee, Emmanuel Tacheau, Andrew Tsonchev, and Craig Williams. On the 21st of July, 2014, Cisco TRAC became aware that the websitedwnews.com was ser...
I've written about network traffic before (see this post and this post). It's the subject of endless blog posts, help forums, and instructional guides across the internet. In a High Performance Computing (HPC) context, there are s...
The situation that many IT people find themselves in today is dripping with irony. They've deployed so many innovations over the years to address so many business challenges, that now most of their time is dedicated to simply keep...
(This is part 5 of a 7-part series sharing insights from Cisco partners about the Future of Cloud.) "A lot of things go into building out a cloud practice that most people don't realize until they get into it. Because we hav...
Cisco's EnergyOps team is tasked with reducing energy consumption and increasing energy efficiency at our offices, labs, and data centers worldwide. Cisco's labs are our largest consumer of energy and although we are putting a lot...
Customers gain great value from server virtualization in the form of virtual machines (VM) and more recently Linux Containers /Dockers in data centers, clouds and branches. By some estimates, more than 60 % of...
IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS) team helps clients protect their mission-critical information and maintain continuous business operations, with help from Cisco MDS solutions and Cisco Services. Business Cont...
I've been to the UK twice this year. The traffic is terrible! Worse than I ever remember! Commentators that's a good sign -a sign of economic prosperity. That certainly seems to be the case in the UK. My last European-related blog...