TechWiseTV episode 29 (54:48 min) Learn how to solve your data center challenges and get an in-depth preview of the new Cisco Nexus 7000.
Technology Focus: Data Center
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Today's data center solution is being pushed to the limit, in large part due to the prodigious growth of digital information and application deployment. In fact, Gartner Research predicts that by 2008, a full 50 percent of any company's data center solution will lack the power and the cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment. How can IT managers cope with this impending data center solution crisis? Clearly, it is time for new answers.
Agenda
Data Center Re-Centralization with Doug Gourlay
Reliability with Mark Berly, TME Manager
Architectural Innovation with Jeff Raymond, TME Manager
Failure without Consequence with Jeff Raymond
Transcript
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to TechWiseTV on the Cisco Interaction Network. Please remember to submit your technical questions in the field provided at the bottom of the viewing console. You can also email questions, comments and suggestions to techwisetv@cisco.com. Thank you for joining us, and enjoy the show.JONAS TICHENOR: The data center is the heartbeat of the 21st century business. Today we focus on mission-critical IT computing as we look at Defining the Data Center Class Switch. Our own Robb Boyd sits down with Doug Gourlay, Senior Director, Data Center Solutions, to explore the challenges and demands that are putting data centers under the gun to deliver.DOUG GOURLAY: When your cell phone has 20 times the storage capacity of your Microsoft Exchange mailbox, you often have to wonder what's going on here.JONAS TICHENOR: You'll get a first look at the incredible Nexus 7000 and hear the top five requirements for a data center class switch.JIMMY RAY PURSER: This is good stuff, man, this is really built hard. As a matter of fact, this was designed to support 384 Cat 6a cables, that big, thick, heavy stuff.JONAS TICHENOR: We'll show you advances in network virtualization and how it's changing today's data center.ROBB BOYD: How can we deploy capacity in applications quicker right where we need them, when we need them?JONAS TICHENOR: And we'll reveal the secrets of the new operating system that puts the Nexus 7000 in a class of its own.JEFF RAYMOND: The NX-OS operating system actually can do self-healing.JONAS TICHENOR: Well, you've impressed Jimmy Ray, I don't know if you meant to do that.JEFF RAYMOND: Hey, my work here is done.JONAS TICHENOR: Exactly, exactly.JONAS TICHENOR: Restock your pocket protector because you're going to want to take some notes. This is TechWiseTV, technology you can use from geeks you can trust, only on the Cisco Interaction Network. Welcome to TechWiseTV, I'm Jonas Tichenor along with Cisco solutions experts Robb Boyd and Jimmy Ray Purser. And our focus today is Defining the Data Center Class Switch. Of course, what business is not dependent on their IT resources these days?
