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Cisco rounds out its portal and automation portfolio by acquiring Cloupia

November 15th, 2012 · No Comments · CISCO, Cloud Orchestration

What is the heck is Cloupia? Cloupia is a company built around making converged data center infrastructure easy to build and manage. This take They accomplish this goal by delivery three major product sets – Unified Infrastructure Management – Cloupia’s Bread and Butter Cloupia’s Unified Infrastructure controller really the meat of Cloupia’s product line. It puts [...]

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Tags: automation·ciac·cloud·cloud computing·cloupia

Simplifying scale out DataCenter design with UCS Manager 2.1

November 1st, 2012 · 3 Comments · CISCO, Cisco UCS, Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco Unified Computing System Managerm UCSM

In this case the 2.1 release of UCSM takes a product that many people already have (Unified Computing System) and makes it do more. There aren’t going to be press conferences about this, but it is worth taking a closer look at. It will make my life easier, and I hope it does the same for you.

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Tags: C-Series·CCIE·ccie lab·CISCO·Cisco Linux·Data Center·DESIGN·FCOE·Fibre Channel·Hadoop·Network·openstack·UCS·ucsm·Unified Computing·Unified Computing System

Cisco announces it’s own OpenStack Distribution – What will the effect be on VMware?

October 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment · CISCO, OpenStack

There are many reasons for this rapid transformation from interesting project to cloud standard. In my belief the primary reason is that the major networking and systems hardware manufacturers have figured out that by supporting the development of OpenStack that now have a way to fight back against Amazon and EC2.

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Tags: openstack·quantum·vmware