Because of the proliferation of the Internet and information age in the mid 1990s, there has been a rapid expansion of data centers. To address the extremely rapid growth of applications and IT services, more and more data centers have been built, expanded, and utilized over the last decade and a half. With this growth ...

Energy is one of the largest unmanaged expenses in any organization. Organizations around the world are quickly discovering the power of enterprise energy management systems for gaining detailed visibility and control over their plug load, the vast majority of which is composed of IT devices. Subscribe to the Daily Tech Insider Newsletter Stay up to ...

A little over a year ago, Cisco introduced the idea of an Intercloud to the public. The term “Intercloud” means that there are many flavors of clouds in use today, and that they are somehow connected. The vision is quite simple: there are enterprise private clouds, cloud-based services (usually but not always SaaS), managed service ...

In the time it took you to download and open this eBook, you could have spun up and configured hundreds of virtual machines in a public or private cloud, deployed your application, database, middleware, messaging, load balancers, storage, and other components to those configured servers, linked them all together, and had your app live in ...

Beginning with a brief overview of private cloud computing and the evolution of on-premises private clouds, we will compare Cisco Metapod to options from VMware and the OpenStack community. We’ll also describe Cisco’s unique OpenStack as a Service (OaaS) operating model, and present Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analyses that compare Cisco Metapod to VMware ...

Mobile devices have brought advancements to virtually all aspects of modern life and have had transformative effects on businesses spanning all industries. However, the positive business effects that can be brought about by mobility and “going digital” are not enjoyed as frequently within small and midsize businesses (SMBs) as they are within larger organizations. While ...

Mobile and virtualized workloads, cloud applications, big data, heterogeneous devices: they are all growing in your business, demanding previously unimagined capacity and performance from your servers and data center fabric. And that demand is not slacking. Your employees, applications, and competitive advantage increasingly depend on it. Those servers and applications need to be fed. And ...

This edition of Unleashing IT showcases Cisco’s holistic approach to the future of networking: application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). Promoted by Cisco, Intel®, and ecosystem partners, ACI is a true innovation that changes the way technology is delivered in support of business priorities. Subscribe to the Cloud Insider Newsletter This is your go-to resource for the ...

In today’s global economy, innovation matters. For teams to innovate rapidly and with great frequency, they must be able to clearly communicate and closely collaborate. Miscommunication, misunderstanding and misinterpretation only leads to costly errors, bottlenecked business processes and market misfires. Most of these issues are avoidable. Subscribe to the Daily Tech Insider Newsletter Stay up ...

In today’s global economy, innovation matters. For teams to innovate rapidly and with great frequency, they must be able to clearly communicate and closely collaborate. Miscommunication, misunderstanding and misinterpretation only leads to costly errors, bottlenecked business processes and market misfires. Most of these issues are avoidable. Subscribe to the Daily Tech Insider Newsletter Stay up ...