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We all know that VMware based data center virtualization is here to stay and is quite rightly incorporated in enterprise and service provider application delivery infrastructure. Although many benefits are gained by migrating to a virtual data center, deploying a virtual data center infrastructure t...

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000149 EndHTML:0000005692 StartFragment:0000000199 EndFragment:0000005658 StartSelection:0000000199 EndSelection:0000005658 This is a favorite question of mine (and a very contemporary topic), albeit asked in a different way;  Why do you need layer 2 for VMotion. &nbs...

The Olympics give us a chance to marvel at and enjoy the performances of athletes who demonstrate their intense dedication to the pursuit of excellence and their determination in the face of fierce competition. The games are a worldwide event and with audiences in the home countries anxious to see t...

Collaborative Infrastructure Modeling (CIM) We recently launched a new service capability out of our Customer Advocacy teams that provides a collaborative medium between facilities and IT operations.  For anyone who has tried to manage the design aspects of establishing a new data cente...

  Australian Curtin University of Technology is one of the first beta customers to sign up to a telecom provider ’s new private cloud-based service which utilises technology from Cisco, EMC and VMware and is also currently deploying an internal private cloud, based on the Cisco Unified C...

Two of our favorite bloggers,  Kash Shaikh and Omar Sultan wrote several times on the emergence of the FCoE solution, and the benefits of the unified fabric approach Today Kash Shaikh and Senior Director of IT Derek Masseth at University of Arizona talk about how customers are simplifying data ...

Organizations are ready to promote greater value with virtualization, however, data center complexity and costs are skyrocketing. Virtual machines have emerged as the new “atomic unit,” moving fluidly throughout the data center, promising reduced costs and increased flexibility. Hindere...

In their Q4 2009 WAVE report Forrester recognized Cisco WAAS as a market leader in WAN optimization in their comparison of the top 8 vendors, considering criteria such as the offering, strategy, market presence, and technology. Forrester says that WAN optimization is increasing in importance to IT o...

So, lets take a closer at OTV and how it works.  As a reminder, OTV is an NX-OS feature that allows us to extend Ethernet LANs between data centers. One of the nice things about OTV is that it is transport agnostic—the connectivity between data centers can be L2 based, L3 based, IP switch...

If you look at history, cabling infrastructure has generally been in place ahead of network adapters and switches. That was certainly the case when the market transitioned from 10/100 to 1Gigabit Ethernet. And BASE-T technologies using twisted-pair cables have been the volume leader during  eac...