Cisco Data Center Podcast

Technology Conversations on Current Issues in the Data Center
Join Cisco Systems as we host conversations on current technology issues in the data center. Featuring guests from development, engineering, and IT, each episode is structured to briefly review a data center topic, discuss recent technology developments, and share real-world case studies.

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Data Center TechMinute: PUE Audit
GUESTS:
Doug Alger, IT Architect, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Doug Alger discusses a recently completed PUE audit, how we did it and where we go next with the information

Intel Xeon 5000 Series Processors
GUESTS:
Chris Peters, Intel

TOPIC COVERED:
Chris Peters, from Intel, discusses some of the energy efficiency and performance features of their new Intel Xeon 5000 Series processors and how they relate to the Cisco UCS.

Data Center TechMinute: Integrating Cisco UCS
GUESTS:
Sidney Morgan, IT Manager, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Sidney Morgan discusses integrating Cisco UCS into the existing storage environment

Data Center TechMinute: Cisco Adapts Its Cooling Strategy
GUESTS:
Doug Alger, IT Architect, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Doug Alger discusses how Cisco adapts its cooling strategy to 
support various tiers of applications

The New Economic Realities: The Right Architecture
GUESTS:
Ed Goden, Intel
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Ed Goden of Intel discusses how investment in right architecture can deliver both financial and technical beenfits.

Cisco + Intel = Acceleration
GUESTS:
Jake Smith, Intel
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Jake Smith of Intel discusses how Cisco and Intel worked together to accelerate data center virtualization.

Data Center TechMinute: New Cisco IT Data Center Virtual Tour
GUESTS:
Sidney Morgan, IT Manager, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Sidney Morgan discusses the new data center virtual tour and what drove the need to create this tool

Data Center TechMinute: Cisco Unified Computing System
GUESTS:
Doug Alger, IT Architect, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Doug Alger provides a perspective on the Cisco Unified Computing System from a "facilities guy" perspective and then more generally discusses delivering more flexible power and cooling in the data center

Data Center TechMinute: Cisco Unified Computing System
GUESTS:
Sidney Morgan, IT Manager, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Sidney Morgan discusses the production implementation of the new Cisco Unified Computing System

Data Center TechMinute: Devices that require Side-to-Side Airflow
GUESTS:
Doug Alger, IT Architect, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Doug Alger discusses how Cisco IT handles devices that require side-to-side airflow.

Data Center TechMinute: Cisco Virtualized Storage Environment
GUESTS:
Sidney Morgan, IT Manager, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Sidney Morgan talks about how we manage our global, virtualized storage environment

Data Center TechMinute: Waste Heat from the Data Center
GUESTS:
Doug Alger, IT Architect, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Doug Alger discusses some of the innovative things companies are doing around waste heat from the data center

Data Center TechMinute: Cisco Nexus 5000 based FCoE solution
GUESTS:
Sidney Morgan, IT Manager, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED: Sidney Morgan, from Cisco IT, provides an update on how the Nexus 5000 based FCoE solution is doing in our production environment

Data Center TechMinute: Data Center Rack Cabling Options
GUESTS:
Doug Alger, IT Architect, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Doug Alger discusses the pros and cons of different approaches to cabling server racks

Data Center TechMinute: VMware @ Cisco
GUESTS:
Sidney Morgan, IT Manager, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED: Sidney Morgan talks about what we are doing with server virtualization and some of the things we are considering for the future

Data Center TechMinute: Planning DC Growth
GUESTS:
Doug Alger, IT Architect, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Doug Alger discusses how Cisco does data center capacity planning.

Data Center TechMinute: FCoE In Production
GUESTS:
Sidney Morgan, IT Manager, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Sidney Morgan discusses the results of putting FCoE into production at Cisco

Data Center TechMinute: Your Insider View into Cisco's Global Data Center Development and Strategy
GUESTS:
Doug Alger, IT Architect, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Cisco's IT team defines Cisco current and future data center design issues, development and strategy.

Data Center TechMinute: How is Cisco Virtualizing Our Own Infrastructure?
GUESTS:
Sidney Morgan, IT Manager, Cisco
Omar Sultan, Data Center Product Marketing Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Listen in on how Cisco is driving energy efficiency in our own data center infrastructure.

Data Center: Virtualization and the Network
Data center virtualization, service orchestration, and the network's role in achieving both are becoming critical issues for server, storage, and network managers alike. Learn how the network is facilitating the dynamic, efficient provisioning of virtualized services. The latest technologies, such as Cisco VFrame Data Center, offer applications the same reliability, security, and performance as traditionally deployed physical infrastructures, while facilitating seamless data center virtualization and orchestration.

Storage Area Networking Software
SAN-OS for the Cisco MDS family of storage area network switches now offers advanced encryption and backup capabilities. The discussion also covers integration with EMC and new MDS hardware capabilities.

Cisco and Microsoft on Application Networking for SharePoint Deployments (Published - Tue, 15 Jan 2008)
GUESTS:
Ambrose Treacy, Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft
Doug Silverstein, Alliance Manager, Cisco

TOPIC COVERED:
Hear Microsoft SharePoint product team member, Ambrose Treacy, discuss:

1. Current global SharePoint deployment trends
2. Associated challenges for IT operations teams
3. The value of Cisco WAN optimization and application switching for global SharePoint solutions

Email ISP company deploys Cisco ACE resulting in a 40% improvement in response time (Published - Thurs, 25 Oct 2007)
GUESTS:
Julian Tang, Sr. Network Manager for Mail2World and Mark Weiner, Director of Product Marketing

TOPIC COVERED:
Hear the top 3 reasons why Mail2World chose ACE over the competition, and learn how they improved their customer experience by improving response times from 1 second to 6 milliseconds! Go to www.mail2world.com; for your free trial account.

Cisco and Accenture on Service Oriented Architecture (Published - Mon, 23 Jul 2007)
GUESTS :
Accenture CTO, Don Rippert and Cisco Director of Product Marketing for ANS Solutions, Mark Weiner

TOPIC COVERED:
How application networking solutions help Accenture clients solve their technical concerns.

Financial Services Company Chooses Cisco WAN Optimization Solution (Published - Mon, 9 Jul 2007)

TOPIC COVERED: A discussion of how Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) accelerates Citrix remote print services by 75% at Fulton Financial.

Cisco's Green Data Center (Published - Mon, 11 Jun 2007)
May 16, 2007 - Companies like Cisco are working together to deliver improved data center power efficiencies within IT infrastructures.

Cisco and IBM: Continuous Availability for IBM's AIX (Published - Tue, 11 Jul 2006)
GUESTS:
Vic Peltz, Technical Marketing Consultant in IBM’s Systems and Technology Group
Mark Allen, Technical Leader in Cisco’s Data Center Switching & Security Technology Group.

TOPICS COVERED:
(1) The IBM Cisco Continuous Availability for AIX (CAA) solution enablement for installations to mirror data from a production site to a backup site and automatically fail over to the backup site in the event of a system failure and / or disaster at the production site (2) IBM p-Series hosts running IBM HACMP/XD high availability clustering software (3) IBM DS8000 Systems Storage running the IBM Metro Mirror remote mirroring function (4) Cisco Multilayer Director SAN switch, the MDS9000, with Cisco high availability networking features.

Network-Based Data Replication (Published - Thu, 20 Apr 2006)
GUESTS:
Rick Walsworth, VP of Marketing at Kashya; Kamal Hyder, Product Manager in the Data Center Switching Business Unit at Cisco Systems; Donald Rush, Senior Network Engineer at Pharmavite LLC.

TOPICS COVERED:
(1) Understanding the difference between replication and backup (2) Review classical approaches to replication (3) Using innovation in the network for easier, cheaper, and quicker replication (4) Experience of Pharmavite LLC in deploying network-based data replication.

FURTHER INFO:
Read the whitepaper on Kashya and the Cisco SANTap protocol at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns654/networking_solutions_white_paper0900aecd802d3f67.shtml
Read the lab test report at: http://www.kashya.com/pdf/KashyaCiscoESGLabOctober2005.pdf

Network Accelerated Serverless Backup (Published - Thu, 16 Feb 2006)
GUESTS:
Dan Hersey, Technical Marketing Engineer in the Data Center Switching Business Unit at Cisco Systems;
Eric Carter, Sr. Product Manager in the Information Management Software Group at EMC;
Shane Harms, Chief Architect for Backup in the IT organization at Cisco Systems

TOPICS COVERED:
(1) Understanding Backup/Recovery, Replication, Protection, & Archival (2) Evolution of Backup technologies (3) Cisco technology development in accelerating backup (4) Experience of Cisco IT in evaluating network accelerated serverless backup.

FURTHER INFO:
Read the solutions brief on Network Accelerated Serverless Backup at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns394/ns259/ns515/net_brochure0900aecd80332bfa.pdf
Read the lab test report on NASB at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns394/ns259/ns515/net_implementation_white_paper0900aecd803e9d79.pdf

Impact of Infrastructure on Service Oriented Architectures (Published - Thu, 12 Jan 2006)
GUESTS:
Guido Jouret, VP of IT Strategy Consulting at Cisco Systems;
Brian Christensen, Director of Data Center Systems in the IT organization at Cisco Systems;
Hicham Tout, Application Integration Architect in the IT organization at Cisco Systems

TOPICS COVERED:
(1) Understanding SOA, On-Demand Computing, & Real-Time Infrastructure (2) Experience of Cisco IT in evolving to a Service Oriented Infrastructure (3) Experience of Cisco IT in evolving applications to a Service Oriented Architecture (4) What is the role of the network and what is the Service Oriented Network Architecture? (5) Experience of Cisco IT in adopting service orientation in the network.

FURTHER INFO:
Read more about the Cisco Service Oriented Network Architecture at www.cisco.com/go/sona

Centralizing Branch Servers into the Data Center (Published - Thu, 15 Dec 2005)
GUESTS:
Baruch Deutsch, Director in the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco Systems;
Ady Degany, Technical Marketing Engineer in the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco Systems;
Jim French, Distinguished Systems Engineer in the US Field Engineering team at Cisco Systems

TOPICS COVERED:
(1) Why servers were deployed in the branch (2) Understanding application performance and latency (3) Cisco technology development in improving application delivery (4) Experiences at two U.S. Fortune 500 companies.

FURTHER INFO:
Read more about branch server centralization at www.cisco.com/go/applicationservices

Data Center Facilities (Published - Thu, 1 Dec 2005)
GUESTS:
Paul Marcoux, Director in the Office of the CTO at APC;
Jack Tyson, VP of Technology at Panduit;
Doug Alger, IT Project Manager in the Data Center Infrastructure team at Cisco Systems

TOPICS COVERED:
(1) Why are data center facilities top of mind now? (2) Understanding what facilities go into a data center (3) Standards bodies (4) New technologies in the facilities space (5) Experiences and lessons learned after Cisco builds and supports its own global data centers.

FURTHER INFO:
Cisco Press book, "Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business," by Doug Alger. White Paper, "Facilities Considerations for the Data Center," available at www.cisco.com/go/datacenter