What is SDN? I hear so much about it!
December 10, 2012There has been a lot of buzz of a new concept emerging in the network community– software defined networking (SDN). SDN is glamorized as the network’s latest push towards a more streamlined and cost-efficient solution compared to the physical infrastructure … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, What's New in Research | Tagged abstraction, API, Application, architecture, Brocade, Cariden, cisco, commoditization, control plane, controller, data plane, DDoS, decouple, hp, ibm, Infrastructure, interoperability, Juniper, layer 2, layer 3, microsoft, network, network architect, Open Networking Foundation, OpenFlow, OSI, physical, router, SDN, software defined networking, stack, standards, switch, traffic flow, utilization, virtual, virtualization, VMWare | Comments Off
Cisco and Meraki Sittin’ in a Tree
November 19, 2012It’s a pretty safe bet that Meraki wants to lay a big wet kiss on Cisco right about now. The networking giant is laying out $1.2 billion in cash for the young cloud networking (primarily wireless) company, and that’s a … Continue reading
Posted in News & Analysis | Tagged acquisition, cisco, cloud networking, Meraki, wifi, wireless-lan | 1 Comment
Cisco Customer Collaboration Conference: Day Two
May 22, 2012During the second day of its Customer Collaboration Conference in Boston, Cisco continued to outline its product strategy for incumbent and upcoming contact center solutions. The focus of the second day was on next-generation contact center architecture and intelligent agent … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged cisco, cloud-infrastructure, communications, contact center, customer collaboration conference, customer service, mobile-applications, mobile-devices, precision, routing, social channels, social-media, virtualization | Comments Off
Cisco Customer Collaboration Conference: Day One
May 16, 2012The first day of Cisco’s Customer Collaboration Conference in Boston has been an enlightening experience about the communication giant’s plans for the contact center and collaboration spaces. Company representatives showed the firm’s strategy in several major areas, with an emphasis … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged cisco, cloud-infrastructure, communications, contact center, customer collaboration conference, customer service, mobile-devices, social channels, social-media | Comments Off
Selecting a blade server: Like baking a cake, but with less mess
March 27, 2012Baking a cake and cooking a stir fry are two tasks that have many similarities, but the key to successful execution for each is very different. When baking a cake, it’s all about precise measurements and combinations, whereas when making … Continue reading
Posted in Advisory, News & Analysis | Tagged Blade, Blade Center, Blade Server, Blade System, C-class, cisco, Compute Blade, consolidation, convergence, Dell, HDS, Hitachi, hp, ibm, Oracle, Power Edge, Sparc, Sun, SunBlade, SuperBlade, Supermicro, UCS, UNIX, x86 | 1 Comment
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