Tag Archive | "Cisco"

A Story about Walt and The Vblock Revolution

Thursday, July 15, 2010

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I submit that CIOs today are looking for return on invested capital (ROIC) with an ever increasing “impatient” pace and I agree. Return on Invested Capital is a financial measure that calculates how well a company generates cash flow relative to the capital it has invested in the business. When referencing ROIC you are in [...]

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A New Perspective

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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I am settling into my new position at Cisco and life is starting to establish a new cadence, this post is from inspiration gathered in a new perspective I have for competitive education. I say competitive education because at Cisco I am now exclusively dedicated to The Virtual Computing Environment Coalition (VCE) and prior to [...]

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Change of Address

Friday, June 4, 2010

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Today’s message is about goodbyes and hellos. For the last few years I have had the pleasure of working with a great sales team at NetApp with customers from around the world. I joined NetApp after a few virtualization projects in the mid 2000s which I designed data centers that incorporated the use of NetApp [...]

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Technology @Home

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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It has been a while since I have posted anything. All Good reasons why, in that I have been kept very busy by my employer “NetApp” on some great work with customers on several very advanced technologies through the use of things we have worked very closely to integrate with Cisco and VMware, more on [...]

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Cisco UCS – Part II

Thursday, March 26, 2009

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The Cisco UCS system is proving to be loaded with a few thought leading technologies. Official Product details appear to be scheduled for launch on March 31st, 2009 http://www.thedcofthefuture.com/ Much of this detail, minus a few specifics, can be gleaned out of the At-A-Glance data sheet. Taking that data along with a nugget or two [...]

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Cisco UCS – Converged Network Adapters

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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It has been a long time since I have seen so much discussion about a technology announcement. It seems as though every corner of the connected world is discussing Cisco’s Unified Computing System. In a previous post I discussed more of what it means to the modern data center. As the onion is peeled back [...]

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Lot’s of Excitement about Cisco UCS

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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Cisco’s Unified Computing System has caused quite the buzz and while many are working on the specifics of what hardware component does what, I figured it would be worthwhile to write a post about what the promise or reality of UCS is. This is essentially a major transformation or technology shift that is occurring in [...]

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