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Innovations Behind Cisco Unified Computing System

The Cisco Unified Computing System unites network, compute, and virtualization resources into a seamless system, simplifying setup, improving business results, and enabling just-in-time resource provisioning. A Unified Computing Architecture allows customers to scale their virtualized data center resources, supporting business services faster, dynamically, and more efficiently. This whitepaper describes the...

Tags: Innovation, Virtual Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Unified Computing System, Unified Computing Architecture, Data Center Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management, Virtualization

White papers 2009-03-16

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Pivot3 - a different take on unified computing

Pivot3's Lee Caswell and I spoke about a different take on unified computing architectures and storage centric computing. Lee and I crossed paths while he was with Sun Microsystems. Furthermore, Pivot3's take includes memory virtualization/distributed caching elements as well. Here's how Pivot3 describes itself ...

Tags: Network, Environment, Pivot3, Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System

Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis and I communicated about Cisco's Unifed Computing System UCS. Here are his answers to some questions that were posed to him.  Since Savvis currently operates 29 data centers (a total of 1.4 million square feet of space), his views could be seen as...

Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-20

To the Moon: The Integrators

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Dell's analyst meeting: Looking for the big vision

Dell's analyst powwow on Tuesday is expected to focus heavily on storage and cost cutting, but lack any big transformation plans---although many observers are itching to hear more about the company's acquisition strategy and vision. Caris analyst Robert Cihra sums it up well. Dell has been focusing...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Analyst, Vision, Cihra, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Storage, Desktops, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Cisco rallies channel to target virtualized data centers

Cisco said today that it will "grow, motivate and evolve" its channel partners as a way of turbo-boosting the adoption of virtualized data centers. At its partner summit, the company announced plans to expand its partner profitability program and launch IT certification training, as well as an expansion of its...

Tags: Virtual Data Center, Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Data center survey: Cisco's server push sparks interest; VMware, EMC, NetApp shine

Cisco's Unified Computing System is garnering interest, but storage appears to be the focus of CIOs as they ponder the next generation data center and that's good news for EMC and NetApp, according to a Goldman Sachs survey.  Goldman Sachs surveyed 100 IT executives at Fortune 1000...

Tags: NetApp Inc., Data Center, Juniper Networks Inc., Server, VMware Inc., Survey, Cisco Systems Inc., EMC Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Cisco: Following the Flip bits

Cisco's acquisition of Pure Digital, maker of the Flip video camera, was notable because it signaled a stronger move into the consumer market too. But Cisco also noted that the Flip can also be a business tool. The real game for Cisco is wiring your home video network just...

Tags: Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Flip, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-08

HP answers Cisco with Matrix; Data center visions galore

Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled its answer to making data centers more modular and more cost effective and the target is pretty clear: Cisco Systems. HP's latest entry into the data center wars is dubbed the BladeSystem Matrix and Matrix Orchestration Environment. These products reside in HP's Adaptive...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Vision, Server, Cisco Systems Inc., BladeSystem Matrix, Storage Lineup, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Cisco UCS Manager Architecture

The Cisco UCS Manager model-driven framework separates the Cisco UCS Manager logic from platform implementation, making the software cleaner and easier to maintain. The Cisco UCS Manager's information model is hierarchical, which makes manipulating the management information tree more intuitive for XML API users. Managed objects can be modified either...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco UCS Manager

White papers 2009-04-01

Cisco's big data center plans: Assessing winners and losers rack by rack

Cisco on Monday rolled out its long-awaited vision of data center architecture, including multiple partners, a wire-once approach to link computing, virtualization, storage and networking and a call to lower costs. Let's assess the winners and losers of this rack-by-rack data center battle. As background, Cisco's Unified...

Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Set-up, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Cisco's big blade server bet

After months of rumors, Cisco officially entered the server business this morning with a modular system it calls the "Unified Computing System" UCS. This blade server system goes one step beyond its predecessors by starting from a unified network foundation on ten gigabit per second Ethernet (10 GbE) that delivers...

Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Cisco Systems Inc., Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Unite Data Center Technologies with the Cisco Unified Computing System - Flash Overview

Cisco is transforming the data center. Learn more about the foundation technologies of the Cisco Unified Computing Architecture and how Cisco has unified data center technologies, simplified the infrastructure, and amplified system functionality, over legacy server deployments. See key functionality of the Cisco Unified Computing System that you can leverage...

Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Data Center Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Virtualization

Presentations 2009-03-16

Cisco Executives Speak on Unified Computing System

Listen firsthand as Cisco leaders describe how the Cisco Unified Computing System is designed and optimized for virtualized data centers. You'll learn how this new architecture reduces time to deploy new applications and simplifies data center operations, allowing you to drive top-line growth, contain costs, and compete in a rapidly...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Presentations 2009-03-16

Cisco's expected Unified Computing System splash raises a data center ruckus

Cisco Systems on Monday is widely expected to launch network servers in a move that will put it in the virtualization business and potentially at odds with players like Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Cisco says it's merely doing what it has always done---investing in "market adjacencies during times that may cause...

Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Blade, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-13

BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Service Oriented Communications, debate how dead SOA really is

Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Additional underwriting by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition,...

Tags: Communication, SOA, Service, Architecture, SOC, Communications Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-01-26

Innovative Software Architecture (Part I)

There are many active and successful schools of software architecture thought. Software architecture is a discipline unified by principles, but divided by terminology. The various architecture schools can be viewed as different branches of an evolutionary progression. The Zachman Framework has evolved from the traditional non-OO approaches. ODP is an...

Tags: Software, iCMG, Software Architecture, Zachman Framework, ODP, Domain Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2009-01-01

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First

Industry Giants -the New Adults on the Block Most of these might not be surprising to you but they are to me. With maybe the exception of Sage...and NetSuite....and RightNow and.....ah well.  I guess they aren't really all that surprising.  But to some degree, IBM and Cisco are surprising. ...

Tags: Strategy, Application, NetSuite Inc., IBM Corp., CRM, Zach, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-16

Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 7: High-Performance Computing Off the Shelf

Continuing the Infrastructure architecture essentials series, this paper provides an overview of methods for building HPC systems with OTS components and open source software. Architectures that employ clusters and hybrid nodes composed of traditional multi-core Symmetrical MultiProcessing SMP/Non-Uniform Memory Access NUMA architectures integrated with Single-Instruction Multiple Data SIMD Cell-based or...

Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, Cell, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2008-12-09

Gartner Top 10 embraces the Cloud

As in previous years, the analysts at Gartner have unveiled their 'Top 10 Strategic Technologies,' and Jason Hiner provides details elsewhere on ZDNet. The press release is here. One of the analysts involved David Cearley discusses the Top 10 over on YouTube, and posts the information from...

Tags: Gartner Inc., David, Jason, Semantic Web, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-15