Cisco EMC and VMware announced a joint partnership called the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition (VCE) . The key goal of the VCE is to accelerate customer migration to virtualization and cloud infrastructures. The Virtual Computing Environment will accomplish this in four different ways.
VBlock Infrastructure Packages
VBlock infrastructure packages are pre-configured bundles that are sized to [...]
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Cisco’s vision of the unified data center took another step forward today with the announcement of the Nexus 4000 series blade center switches. This switch is another step forward in Cisco’s view of a true multiprotocol network.
What does this mean? In Cisco’s view of the world this means supporting the transport of Fibre Channel, Fibre [...]
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What I would like to share today is a video guide on how to properly create a Unified Computing System (UCS) Bill of Materials (BOM), and how to route that BOM into the appropriate ordering system.
You may notice that I am using a tool called Netformx. You may ask – since this is a Cisco [...]
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