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Cisco Figures Out How To Sell Switches To Hyperscalers And Enterprises Alike
Selling hardware into the modern datacenter is no easy feat, particularly when the needs of hyperscalers and enterprises have long since diverged. …
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The Supply Chain Boa Constrictor Still Tight Around Cisco
There are times when Cisco Systems, which has a strong presence in datacenter switching, routing, and serving as well as a representative showing in storage and software, is a bellwether for IT market spending and transitions going on in the IT space. …
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Controlling The Network When You Don’t Own All Of It
Like others in the datacenter infrastructure space, Cisco Systems has had a front-row seat to the rapid changes in enterprise tech, from the accelerating adoption of the multicloud model to the increasing decentralization of the IT environment, rippling out to the network edge. …
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Cisco: Datacenter Demand Strong, Supply Not So Much
The good news, and we all need to be looking at the bright sides of things a bit these days is that the biggest IT shops in the world want to buy a lot of datacenter gear from Cisco Systems. …
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Cisco Rolls Out New Systems As It Stretches Kubernetes To Clouds
There is no shortage of options for enterprises when it comes to Kubernetes platforms. …
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Arista Networks Brings The Battle For Routing To Cisco
It’s a great thing when an upstart supplier of hardware or software lands one of the hyperscalers or large public cloud builders on Earth as a customer. …
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The Citadel That Is Still Cisco Systems
The hyperscalers and cloud builders can be split into two camps, but a third one might be emerging. …
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Sparking The Gap Between AI And DevOps
The term “AIOps” is getting a lot of work these days, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise. …
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AI And The Further Automation Of IT
Enterprises that are betting the massive amounts of data that they are collecting will deliver the insights they need to make better and faster businesses are finding that they could just as easily be overwhelmed by them. …
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For Many, Hyperconverged Is The Next Platform
There is a kind of dichotomy in the datacenter. The upstart hyperconverged storage makers will tell you that the server-storage half-bloods that they have created are inspired by the storage at Google or Facebook or Amazon Web Services, but this is not, strictly speaking, true. …