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Deploying and running data center infrastructure management – compute, networking, and storage – has traditionally been manual, slow, and arduous. Data center staffers are accustomed to doing a lot of command line configuration and spending hours in front of data center terminals. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is the way out: It solves the problem of running storage, networking, and compute in a straightforward way by combining the provisioning and management of these resources into one package,…

Please welcome guest blogger, Tushar Patel, Principal Engineer, Oracle Solutions  Proven 37 Million IOPS, now augmented with 100G Networking and Integrated GPU – Oh My! We live in a world of change.  Many of us are old enough to remember a time before cable television, the internet, and cell phones were commonplace.  Movies made in the 1980’s provides a view of the past.  Yet technology continued to advance fed be a desire to bring, for…

Nvidia is known for its GPUs, but has introduced Spectrum-4, a combination of networking technologies that reinforces its commitment not only to graphics processors, but also to systems designed to handle the demanding network workloads of AI and high-performance computing. The latest Nvidia Spectrum products rely on the new Spectrum-4 Ethernet-switch ASIC that boasts 51.2 Tb/s switching and routing capacity. The chip underpins the latest members of the company’s Spectrum switches, which are available later…

In technology, the new shiny thing is almost always more exciting than whatever you’re currently doing. In fact, in programming, there’s even an acronym for “not invented here syndrome” (NIHS), which is the tendency to assume that if you didn’t develop it, the solution can’t be any good. Close cousins are “let’s reinvent the wheel” syndrome, which involves redoing something that works fine, and shiny object syndrome, which is doing something just because it seems…

We’re not spending as much time watching TV as we used to, but at an average of three hours a day, we’re still watching a lot. You might think that would be good news for the cable companies. Nope. More people than ever are dumping cable and satellite TV for streaming. Today, 69% of watchers prefer streaming to traditional TV offerings.  People want to save money. At the same time, though, 60% of viewers are…

We’re not spending as much time watching TV as we used to, but at an average of three hours a day, we’re still watching a lot. You might think that would be good news for the cable companies. Nope. More people than ever are dumping cable and satellite TV for streaming. Today, 69% of watchers prefer streaming to traditional TV offerings.  People want to save money. At the same time, though, 60% of viewers are…

Almost all organizations have lots of data. However, many would admit that they are not realizing its full potential. In fact, “Cross-industry studies show that on average, less than half of an organization’s structured data is actively used in making decisions—and less than 1% of its unstructured data is analyzed or used at all,” as stated by Harvard Business Review.   Important aspects of any successful data strategy or architecture include ensuring an effective mechanism exists…

A recent study by the UK-based price comparison site Uswitch has found that Chile boasts the fastest average broadband internet connection across the 37 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), followed by Denmark and the United States. At 189.36Mbps, the average Chilean broadband connection can download a 1,500MB movie in just over a minute – that’s about 100Mbps faster than the average connection across the OECD, and seven times faster than…

In my last blog, I shared stories from some of my colleagues within Cisco and from a few of our partner organizations about the biases they’ve experienced as women in tech, and how they’ve addressed them. In the true spirit of this year’s International Women’s Day theme, #BreakTheBias, I wanted to take that conversation a step further. Sharing our stories about the biases we’ve faced is only the first part. In order to truly #BreakTheBias,…

The drive for change in manufacturing When thinking about everything that goes into transforming a traditional manufacturing plant into a smart factory of the future, there are several factors that determine its success—or failure. Forbes recently reported up to 84 percent of digital transformation initiatives are likely to fail.1 When trying to determine how to create success, it is easy to focus on the technology and the cost, when often the largest single factor is…