Archive for Cisco Networkers Conference
July 25, 2007 at 1:40 pm · Filed under Cisco Networkers Conference, datacenter
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201200843
Cisco Systems(CSCO) on Tuesday announced plans to make the data center a significant part of its business over the next 18 to 24 months. The plan includes new products and programs for building data centers using technologies that go beyond traditional networking.
In 2002, Cisco embarked on a data center strategy that involved providing local area network switches, network storage, and load balancers — all the components necessary to for connectivity services in a data center.
This week, Cisco unveiled a more ambitious strategy at its Networkers user conference in Anaheim, Calif. The networking giant wants to become the No. 1 infrastructure provider for data centers. Cisco envisions the network being at the forefront of a data center’s infrastructure, enabling any application, any content, in any location. It also sees virtualization as a key component of data center networks.
Very cool, anything that the vendors can do to show that energy efficiency, that good data center planning, design and management is not just good IT, it’s good business, it’s a great way of maximizing your investment, coupling the IT to be aligned to your business. By working to improve your data center, you can extend the life of your infrastructure and save money at the same time (admittedly maybe long term in some cases). Check it out an interesting read.
July 25, 2007 at 1:06 pm · Filed under Cisco Networkers Conference
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/prod_072407b.html?Referring_site=Networkers2007PressKit&Position=PressRelease3&Event=Networkers2007
NETWORKERS AT CISCO LIVE 2007 - ANAHEIM, Calif., July 24, 2007 -Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced today a broad array of innovative new data center products and solutions that will enable customers to better utilize their data center resources, deploy more robust business continuance, build cost-effective storage area networks, and enhance data security. In addition, Cisco announced at a press conference today its vision for next-generation data centers, called Data Center 3.0. The Cisco vision for Data Center 3.0 entails the real-time, dynamic orchestration of infrastructure services from shared pools of virtualized server, storage and network resources, while optimizing application performance, service levels, efficiency and collaboration.
“Cisco’s success is built on listening to our customers and partners, and on understanding market transitions,” said John Chambers, chairman and CEO, Cisco. “Because the network is uniquely positioned to be the platform for the data center, we are investing in innovations to help our customers transform their data centers for improved efficiency and increased business productivity.”
Over the next 24 months, Cisco will deliver innovative new products, programs, and capabilities to help customers realize the Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision. New products and programs announced today support that vision, representing the first steps in helping customers to create next-generation data centers.
Very cool, check out this article, it’s talking about the new innovations that Cisco are set to help with data center management, it will be interesting to read where Cisco are going, what they think their customers need, and these kind of announcements are always great for brainstorming, for collaborating on the way forward; they have some interesting products around the fabric arena which looks very cool.
July 25, 2007 at 1:00 pm · Filed under Cisco Networkers Conference, Other things
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/hd_072407.html?sid=BAC-JsSynd
This year, the Networkers conference is part of a new event called Networkers at Cisco Live. Networkers at Cisco Live attracts thousands of IT professional and technical innovators who play a key role in purchasing decisions at their company or institution. It is an unparalleled opportunity to influence and interact with Cisco’s best customers, network and establish relationships with other Cisco partners, and learn about the latest developments and what’s on the horizon at Cisco, all in one forum.
Very cool, the information they have online for the event is simply stunning, there’s podcasts about the Green Data Center, How Virtualization can play it’s part in this, as well as some great key note speeches from John Chambers (CEO) and Jayshree Ullal (Senior Vice President).
I wish I’d been able to attend, but it clashed with our honeymoon. It looks like a great event, and very interesting, particularly John Chambers’ key note, as well as some great comments here: http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/2007/07/how_we_can_all_drive_data_cent.html about achieving a more energy efficient data center. There are set to be comments from Cisco’s partners which will also be very interesting to read.
July 25, 2007 at 11:11 am · Filed under Cisco Networkers Conference, Other things
http://newsroom.cisco.com/Newsroom/podcasts/ciscocast_doug_gourlay_51607.mp3
Cisco’s Green Data Center
Companies like Cisco are working together to deliver improved data center power efficiencies within IT infrastructures. 
Posting: Tuesday, July 24 @ 10am PT
Check out this podcast - it’s really interesting and features a discussion by Doug Gourlay from Cisco talking about the green data center, he covers some interesting topics and it’s always good to hear other people’s views on the subject.
