data center

Redefine Your Data Center with New Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switch Innovations

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Redefine Your Data Center with New Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switch Innovations

Today’s enterprise data centers are evolving rapidly, driven by changing business needs, complex applications, and growing user demands. As organizations embrace hybrid strategies for flexibility and cost savings, workloads are moving beyond traditional environments. While this transformation enables scalability, it also introduces new security and operational challenges, requiring a new approach to protecting critical applications and infrastructure. According to Gartner: ʺIncreased cyberthreats, such as ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure, can cripple data center operations. This…

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Get Future-Ready with the New Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series System

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Get Future-Ready with the New Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series System

In the previous blogs in this series, we covered the unique vision and strategy behind the Cisco and Nutanix partnership and some key results of the co-engineering efforts behind our two companies. In this blog, I’ll highlight our latest innovation: the new Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series System with Nutanix, the industry’s first Nutanix HCI solution to use a modular blade architecture. It’s engineered to simplify IT infrastructure and operations to tackle the fast-changing requirements of…

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Unlock Agile Server Management for Simplified, Sustainable Operations

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Unlock Agile Server Management for Simplified, Sustainable Operations

How customers are benefitting from Cisco Intersight This is part two of a series of blogs on data center operations powered by Cisco Intersight. The first blog provided an overview of Intersight and its key capabilities. This blog covers the most popular use cases for which Cisco customers are deploying Intersight: server management and sustainable operations. Server admins, I understand. In many ways, your job of managing the hundreds to thousands of servers in your…

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Power Your GenAI Ambitions with New Cisco AI-Ready Data Center Infrastructure

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Power Your GenAI Ambitions with New Cisco AI-Ready Data Center Infrastructure

Let’s start with a staggering statistic: According to McKinsey, generative AI, or GenAI, will add somewhere between $2.6T and $4.4T per year to global economic output, with enterprises at the forefront. Whether you’re a manufacturer looking to optimize your global supply chain, a hospital that’s analyzing patient data to suggest personalized treatment plans, or a financial services company wanting to improve fraud detection—AI may hold the keys for your organization to unlock new levels of…

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Ensuring Continuous Network Operations with Cisco Nexus Hitless Upgrades

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Ensuring Continuous Network Operations with Cisco Nexus Hitless Upgrades

Is there ever really a good time to perform a network device image upgrade? For many customers, downtime is not an option. They expect that upgrades occur while the network continues to forward packets, without any service impact. Designing a highly redundant network involves several strategies to ensure continuous operation and minimize downtime. Key approaches include multiple network paths between critical points, load balancing, and dual-homed devices and switches. Cisco supported hitless upgrades for data…

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VDI Revolution: Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series and Cisco are Better Together

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VDI Revolution: Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series and Cisco are Better Together

In the ever-evolving landscape of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), IT departments are constantly seeking solutions that offer flexibility, security, and efficiency. Thankfully, a collaboration between Intel and Cisco has given rise to a powerful approach that addresses these needs head-on: pairing of the Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series and Cisco’s UCS X-Series. Working together, they’re transforming the way organizations deploy and manage VDI environments. Organizations that moved to a public cloud during the pandemic…

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Cisco Nexus Insights: Proactive Day 2 Operations

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Cisco Nexus Insights: Proactive Day 2 Operations

Today’s complex hybrid cloud environments are often composed of solutions from multiple vendors and spread across multiple locations, making it challenging to smooth out application performance and availability. Operations teams can put themselves in the driver’s seat with Nexus Insights. With better visibility to manage multiple vendors and Cisco solutions, they can proactively identify, investigate, and resolve issues. With Nexus Insights, operations teams can also: Get the detailed data center view. Not only does Nexus…

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Building Data Center Infrastructure for the AI Revolution 

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Building Data Center Infrastructure for the AI Revolution 

This is part two of a multi-part blog series on AI. Part one, Why 2024 is the Year of AI for Networking, discussed Cisco’s AI networking vision and strategy. This blog will focus on evolving data center network infrastructure for supporting AI/ML workloads, while the next blog will discuss the Cisco compute strategy and innovations for mainstreaming AI. As discussed in part one of the blog series, Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have recently…

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Understanding how hackers find their way in application supply chain

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Understanding how hackers find their way in application supply chain

Understanding how hackers find their way in application supply chain | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more. …

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Patch CVE-2023-23397 Immediately: What You Need To Know and Do

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Patch CVE-2023-23397 Immediately: What You Need To Know and Do

How is CVE-2023-23397 exploited? The attacker sends a message to the victim with an extended Message Application Program Interface (MAPI) property with a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path to a remote attacker-controlled Server Message Block (SMB, via TCP 445). Share-hosted on a server controlled by the attacker, the vulnerability is exploited whether the recipient has seen the message or not. The attacker remotely sends a malicious calendar invite represented by .msg — the message format…

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