News@Cisco: Latest Storage Networking News

Have You Visited "The Network" Lately?

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:00:00 PST

If you haven't heard, we recently launched The Network: Cisco's Technology News Site, and we've received great feedback from the media including ZDNet, Ragan.com, BrianSolis.com, and Splash Media. We have content organized into six topic categories, and we've added more serial content to our regularly-programmed menu. World-class journalists and our staff (including yours truly) produce the ...

Big Data: The New Frontier of Analytics

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:00:00 PST

Cisco Introduces Smart Switching Portfolio, Security, and Finance Offerings Designed for Small Businesses

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:00:00 PST

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Jan. 25, 2011 – Cisco today added new networking, security and storage products to its "Connect" and "Secure" small business portfolios. The new products help enable small businesses to quickly, easily and more securely connect employees and devices with the content they need, wherever they need it. New Entry Level Ethernet Switches - In the ...

Two Cultures Drive Data Center Development in Higher Education

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PST

September 7, 2010 By Dave Trowbridge Like their counterparts in business, data center managers in colleges and universities are struggling to keep costs under control while meeting ever-growing demands for computing resources. But higher-education data center managers face a unique challenge as well: They must balance the competing demands of two vastly different sets of users – ...

The Alchemy of Services-Oriented Storage Area Networks

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 PST

August 30, 2010 By Dave Trowbridge Alchemists long sought a hypothetical substance called alkahest, possessing the power to dissolve anything. The IT world has found it. It's called virtualization, and it's driving the cloud computing phenomenon. Just as with alkahest, for which no container would suffice, virtualization is well on its way to dissolving the data center itself. ...