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Cisco - More than Half of Workloads to be Cloud

— More than 50 percent of all workloads will be processed in the cloud by 2014. This statement comes from a Cisco “Global Cloud” whitepaper, which examines the current state of things and guesses where we'll be at in 2015. It also forecasts a 22-percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for cloud datacenters, with ...

Feb 04 11:42:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

CareCore National uses Nexus 1000V and VSG to secure virtual data center applications

— Cisco has just released a customer case study ( PDF ) of CareCore National , a 1200 person healthcare insurance company located in South Carolina. [...]

Feb 02 09:32:31 pm GMT / Data Center Networks»

Partnering with Cisco helps Savvis set the bar for enterprise cloud

— We invited Mike Taylor, vice president of global infrastructure engineering and operations at Savvis, to provide his insight on Savvis’ [...]

Feb 02 05:53:36 pm GMT / Data Center Networks»

Cisco Live, London - Day 2: Now We're Rolling

— With the day one issues all put to bed, day two was awesome. The conference seemed much more lively today, and we ended up having a great day of booth presentations, VPLEX demos and hands on labs. One of the presentations that I enjoyed the most was from Gideon Wilkins, the Director of Strateg...

Feb 02 11:14:51 am GMT / EMC Feeds »

Cisco Ethernet switches make big leap to 40/100G

— Cisco this week unveiled significant extensions to both of its major switching lines with the addition of 40/100G Ethernet capabilities.

Feb 01 12:22:00 pm GMT / Techworld.com Data Centre»

Cisco Live, LondonDay 1: Calvinball

— Have you ever read the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips? I grew up with them, and am a huge fan. One of my favorite recurring things in the series was the concept of “Calvinball”, which was their way of rebelling against the rules they were surrounded by every day. The only rules were that...

Feb 01 12:08:06 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Cisco CTO: Software integration will drive intelligent networks

— Networking giant Cisco plans to make software one of the company's “core competencies”, with the aim of creating a networking operating system that is more intelligent and contextualised.

Feb 01 12:05:00 pm GMT / Techworld.com Data Centre»

Cisco aims Wi-Fi access point at iPad profusion

— Cisco Systems developed its latest enterprise access point with corporate bring-your-own-device policies in mind, aiming to give tablets and smartphones as well as traditional workplace devices strong and consistent performance.

Jan 31 09:54:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Cisco, NetApp & FlexPod – The Momentum Continues at Cisco Live Europe

— by John Rollason, Senior Manager Product, Solutions & Alliances EMEA, NetApp For many years the server market was dominated by [...]

Jan 31 05:23:47 pm GMT / Data Center Networks»

Cisco aims to simplify, unify collaboration products' design, interfaces

— Cisco is in the midst of a major initiative to better integrate its various collaboration products and to give their interfaces a uniform, consistent design in order to make them easier to use and more effective at helping employees work with each other.

Jan 27 08:51:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Free Free Free Cisco UCS Development Free Free Free

— The other day I was “making” breakfast for my daughter, as I poured the cereal from the box I noticed [...]

Jan 27 04:09:01 am GMT / Data Center Networks»

Former Cisco Exec Simon Aspinall Joins Virtustream As CMO

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Jan 19 12:55:52 pm GMT / Virtualization.com»

AT&T adds 11 cities to 4G LTE network

— AT&T announced Thursday it has rolled out 4G LTE services to 11 more markets, including New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Jan 05 06:14:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

My resolution: advocate for women in tech

— As Cisco's CTO Padmasree Warrior looks to the new year, she wants to ramp up being an advocate for women in technology. Check out her 2012 resolution:

Jan 01 05:31:31 pm GMT / GigaOM � Cisco»

30 events that shaped Cisco in 2011

— 2011 was a tumultuously transitional year for Cisco. The company came to the realization that its strategy for growth by entering new markets spread it too thin, distracted it from core markets and impacted profits. It cost thousands of employees their jobs.

Dec 15 09:25:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Cisco to introduce larger Cius tablet next year

— Cisco Systems in the first half of next year will release a tablet with a larger screen than the current Cius, the first move in the company's long-term plans to introduce tablets in multiple sizes, an executive said this week.

Dec 01 05:19:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Puppet Labs Scores $8.5M In New Funding From Cisco, Google Ventures And VMware

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Nov 29 04:51:52 pm GMT / Virtualization.com»

Smaller Companies and Larger Data Centers

— For months I’ve been preoccupied with Lew’s Law, or the theory that IT expenses over time will track to the cost of electricity (versus hardware, peoplepower, etc.) authored by Cisco Cloud CTO Lew Tucker and shared in early 2010 with the then-billowing Infrastructure 2.0 Working Group. After watching an SAP web...

Nov 19 09:24:27 pm GMT / ARCHIMEDIUS»

DataSift launches in U.S., opens San Francisco headquarters

— DataSift, the British company that built its business filtering and sorting through reams of Twitter data in real time, has brought its act to the U.S., opening a San Francisco office. Businesses use DataSift to glean information about user impressions of their products and services.

Nov 16 02:05:52 pm GMT / GigaOM � Cloud Computing»

Cisco stock jumps after earnings report beats expectations

— Cisco's comeback continued Thursday, as the San Jose networking company's stock received a healthy bump after its earnings report beat analysts' expectations.

Nov 10 10:54:46 pm GMT / Cisco»

Cisco invests in Korean venture for smart buildings and cities

— Cisco is acquiring a minority stake in a subsidiary of KT, a South Korean telecommunications services company, which will offer managed services for smart buildings and smart city projects from January.

Nov 08 06:57:00 am GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

What do young workers want: social media, device freedom

— The second chapter of the Cisco 2011 Connected World Technology Report shows that young workers are weighing their job decisions based on factors like social media access, choice of device and the desire for remote working arrangements, which can trump salary considerations in some cases.

Nov 02 12:00:46 pm GMT / GigaOM � Cisco»

Linksys refocuses on Wi-Fi, video

— Cisco Systems' Home Networking Business Unit will keep both its Linksys brand and its place in the parent company as Cisco pares down its business, but the unit is also sharpening its focus.

Oct 27 12:56:00 am GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Apple launches in-store pickup of online orders

— Apple today kicked off in-store pickup of orders placed at its online store, letting customers retrieve their goods at a trio of stores in San Francisco.

Oct 26 04:19:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Cisco: Is the Internet as important as food, water, air, shelter? Some think so

— The Internet is just as important as water, food, air and shelter to a third of people with Internet access, according to an international poll by Cisco.

Sep 23 10:30:00 am GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

The good, the bad and the ugly of Cisco’s cutting its growth

— Cisco said its sales would grow by 5 to 7 percent through 2014, cutting its revenue growth in half, and signaling the end of its massive restructuring effort at an analyst day Tuesday. The move sent the stock up, but Cisco isn't out of the woods.

Sep 14 03:45:10 pm GMT / GigaOM � Cisco»

Notes from geekSessions – Network and Infrastructure Scalability

— Here are my notes from today’s geekSessions 2.2 in San Francisco: Allan Leinwand, CTO Zynga Allan gave a short talk on Zynga’s infrastructure, in particular Z Cloud, and Amazon EC2-compatible private cloud. Seems like another proof that AWS is the de-facto standard, at least for compute cloud and storage ...

Jul 27 04:57:46 am GMT / Cloudy Times»

The Internet of Things [Infographic]

— In 2008, the number of devices that connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people. That number continues to rise, thanks to a growing number of connected devices. Cisco has put together this infographic to showcase the growth of the Internet of things.

Jul 17 01:35:56 pm GMT / GigaOM � Cisco»

Meet Facebook, the Web’s Social Entertainment Operating System

— When Cisco all but confirmed it had shut down an ambitiously named Entertainment Operating System, I suspect some folks at Facebook may have chuckled to themselves. After all, Facebook may have designs on becoming for real what the Cisco product was only in name.

May 27 07:09:38 pm GMT / GigaOM � Cisco»

Challenges and Trade-offs in Building a Web-scale Real-time Analytics System

— Ben Black always has interesting things on the go. He’s now down in San Francisco working on his startup Fastip which he describes as “an incredible platform for operating, exploring, and optimizing data networks.” A couple of days ago Deepak Singh sent me to a recent presentation of Ben’s I found interesting:...

Feb 11 01:41:36 pm GMT / Perspectives»

Speaking at CTIA ‘Mobile Business Conference’ Event Oct. 6-8

— I will be back in San Francisco to speak at the CTIA’s Mobile Business Conference from October 6th through the 8th. I will be on a panel discussing ‘Embracing the Cloud’. My Hope in these talks is to continue to highlight the coming impacts of the use of hand-held technologies on a g...

Sep 30 04:58:19 pm GMT / LooseBolts»

Ever Wonder WHY Your VMware Deployment Stalled?

— The past week hosted the increasingly popular VMworld 2010 event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The title of the conference was “Virtual Roads, Actual Clouds”, but the undercurrent of the show was all about ‘VM stall’ and of course whatever vendor XYZ can do to help you get your VM deployment moving ag...

Sep 09 12:15:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Blueprint4IT»

Technology as a service

— Cloud computing concept is transforming the IT industry and shaping the IT service delivery into a pay-as-you-grow model. Here’s a whitepaper from Cisco on Cisco-powered “network clouds”. Thought I’d share some keypoints / highlights… Abstraction of physical hardware (virtualization) &...

Sep 23 12:31:59 am GMT / The AppGirl Blog»

Available for short-term consulting projects.

— Greetings readers, I'm in-between contracts right now and am available for some short-term infrastructure consulting (telecommute, San Francisco or Seattle) between now and March 15th. You can view my credentials on LinkedIN and on my resume. Datacenter build-outs including site location, vendor evaluation, contract...

Dec 23 12:27:44 am GMT / mhalligan's blog»