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Tag Archives: Cisco
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 … Continue reading
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) … Continue reading
Posted in Converged Infrastructure
Tagged Acquisition, Announcement, Cisco, HCI, Hyperconverged, Software-Defined, SpringPath, Virtualization
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Converged Infrastructure
Tagged Announcement, CI, Cisco, Converged, Pure Storage, Storage, VMware
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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 … Continue reading
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 — … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco UCS
Tagged Announcement, Cisco, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage, UCS, UCS S3260
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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, … Continue reading
Posted in Converged Infrastructure
Tagged Announcement, Cisco, Hyperconverged, HyperFlex, SpringPath, UCS, Virtualization, VMware
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, Social Media
Tagged Announcement, Cisco, Cisco Champion, Community, Me, Social Media
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in VMware
Tagged Cisco, Cisco Champion, Conference, EMC, EMC Elect, Event, PernixData, PernixPro, VMware, VMwarePEX
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