Tag: Cisco

  • Cisco Names Champions for 2018

    Cisco Names Champions for 2018

    At the end of last last week, Cisco sent out the official “Welcome” emails to the folks they’ve named as Cisco Champions for 2018. What are Cisco Champions exactly? you might ask. It’s a fair question, I’ll admit. Started in 2014, the Cisco Champion program is a way for Cisco to recognize those members of…

  • Cisco Announces Intention to Acquire Springpath

    On Monday, Cisco ended over a year of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) speculation and announced their intent to acquire Springpath. In this case, instead of Cisco the networking company, we’re looking at Cisco the manufacturer of the Unified Computing System (UCS) compute platform. Springpath makes hyperconvergence software. Cisco has been running that software — rebranded as…

  • Cisco and Pure Announce FlashStack – a Joint CI Solution

    Cisco and Pure Announce FlashStack – a Joint CI Solution

    Last week, Cisco and Pure Storage announced FlashStack. FlashStack is a jointly-developed Converged Infrastructure (CI) solution bundle / reference architecture. The FlashStack solution uses Cisco network and compute hardware, Pure Storage storage hardware, and VMware for the hypervisor and virtualization layer. FlashStack CI is not a product, per se, but a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) or…

  • Cisco Announces Champions for 2017

    Cisco Announces Champions for 2017

    Today, Cisco started sending out “Welcome” emails to folks they’ve named as Cisco Champions for 2017. The Cisco Champions program is a community recognition program. It’s intended to recognize people who are making valuable contributions to the IT community through knowledge sharing. Unlike some other similar programs, Cisco’s own employees are not eligible to be…

  • Cisco Announces New Storage Building Blocks — UCS S3260

    Cisco Announces New Storage Building Blocks — UCS S3260

    Today, Cisco made some storage-related announcements that may have sounded confusing. On a first read, you might think that Cisco is attempting to re-enter the storage market. Personally, I view their announcement as wanting to ensure that they become — and remain — “storage adjacent”… I’ll walk through things and hopefully clear up any confusion…

  • Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex

    Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex

    Today Cisco announced their entry in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure marketplace, a solution called HyperFlex. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) can be thought of as “Virutalization in a Box”. An HCI solution is one that offers everything needed for server virtualization: compute, memory, network, storage, hypervisor, and management/orchestration for all of these. Cisco’s HyperFlex solution uses: Cisco Unified Computing…

  • Cisco Announces Champions for 2016

    Cisco Announces Champions for 2016

    On Friday last week, Cisco started sending out email welcoming those people who have been selected to receive the Cisco Champion designation for 2016. For those of you not familiar with it, Cisco Champion is Cisco’s community recognition program. Its main goal is to encourage and recognize knowledge-sharing efforts. To quote from the welcome email:…

  • For Your Listening Pleasure: Cisco Champion Radio Season 3, Ep 2 is Live

    For Your Listening Pleasure: Cisco Champion Radio Season 3, Ep 2 is Live

    Earlier this week, I got to play the role of a guest-host/panelist on the Cisco Champion Radio podcast, talking about tech predictions for 2016. It was a very lively conversation and a lot of fun. If you’re interested in hearing it, you can find it: On the iTunes On TalkShoe Or, on Android, just search…

  • Guest-Hosting Cisco Champion Radio Next Week

    Guest-Hosting Cisco Champion Radio Next Week

    I’ve written before about the various community programs I’ve been fortunate enough to be involved in and how I’ve benefited from them. I’ve just been given another unexpected benefit that should be a lot of fun. The Cisco Champion community records a weekly podcast titled Cisco Champion Radio. Over the past two years, they’ve covered…

  • Headed to VMware Partner Exchange (#VMwarePEX)

    In less than 48 hours, I’ll be boarding a plane to San Francisco to attend this year’s VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) conference. PEX is a VMware partner-only conference that’s always been a great learning and networking experience for me. Almost all of the vendors my company partners with will be there, too. If you’re going…