Places in the Network Video Series
Series of five short videos discussing Places in the Network. Features Cindy Borovick of IDC.
Cisco's data center strategy meets the same challenges your customers do.
Cisco ITs data center strategy adapts to current and future business needs through resource management, business continuance, cost-effective storage area networks, enhanced data security, improved efficiency and business productivity.
Service Oriented Infrastructure
Cisco White Paper
Data Center Evolution
Spotlight on Data Center Evolution (Video - 28:46 min). Cisco innovator Tom Edsall discusses trends in the architectural evolution of the data center.
Data Center Product Portfolio
Information about Cisco Data Center Portfolio including the Nexus series switches
Data Center Solutions
Data Center Enterprise Solutions on Cisco.com
Trends in IT
Cisco Data Center Lays Foundation for Greater Agility and Resiliency - Article
Meeting Data Center Challenges
Article about Data Center challenges at itworld.com site
Enterprise Transformation and Network Architecture: Constructing a Platform for Business Value Acceleration
Cisco document explaining how Cisco helps customers achieve business value through Network Architecture
Sample Executive Summary from a Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture Workshop
An example of a white paper executive summary from a Cisco® Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) workshop.
Places in the Network
Cindy Borovick, IDC Director, Datacenter Networks, presents an overview of the changing IT landscape and how IT can develop a network that balances the need for business responsiveness with the need to be more efficient. (6:34 mins)
Enabling the Data Center of the Future
Lucinda Borovick, IDC Director, Datacenter Networks discusses how data center architectures are transforming to be more responsive to business needs, address regulatory issues, and control costs. Technologies such as server virtualization and storage area networks must integrate seamlessly with the underlying network to deliver on business objectives. The network must be able to support these new shared resources to serve users around the world. (6:42 mins)
QuickStart Data Center Decision Makers Data Sheet
Descriptions of top 9 data center decision makers.
Cisco Commercial Data Center Executive Overview
Business Challenges and Executive Overview
The Energy Efficient Data Center
Cisco Energy Assurance Program allows customers to estimate the energy efficiency of your IT operations and identify energy efficiency gains that can help financially, and with sustainability in mind.
Energy Efficiency in the Data Center - Techwise TV
Video showing five practical steps to reducing energy consumption without buying any new hardware. Shows the Cisco Efficiency Assurance Program (EAP) website. Find out how much energy can be saved with consolidation and virtualization plus the added benefits they provide. 60 minutes
How IT Management Can "Green" the Data Center
Gartner article on what your customers are doing to apply green concepts to their data centers
The Evolution of Green IT
Four video modules (less than 10 minutes each) from Rob Aldrich about data center and green practices.
Architecting the Green Data Center
External webinar featuring Rob Aldrich, Bill Lulofs, and Douglas Alger discussing simple changes to the structure of a data center network can vastly improve the utilization of energy resources
Cisco.com Enterprise Data Center
Enterprise Data Center page with several virtualization resources. Must register to access webinar.
Data Center Virtualization Podcast - Cisco Technology Podcast Series
Jonathan Gilad discusses Data Center virtualization.
Server Networking and Virtualization
Resources and information for server networking and virtualization.
Cisco.com Enterprise Data Center Virtualization
Enterprise Data Center page with several virtualization resources
Questions to ask your customers
Finding the answers to these questions for Networking and Storage will make your job easier
Data Center Partner Central
Cisco.com location for data center partners
Data Center Virtualization
Cisco.com Enterprise Data Center Virtualization information and resources
Cisco NX-OS Feature Navigator Tool
Explore the features of the NX-OS
Directions to DCAP Quick Tour
Document with directions to access the Quick Tour in the DCAP interactive tool.
Data Center Assurance Program
Cisco.com site with product information, architecture info and design best practices with Cisco Validated Designs
Design Zone for Data Center
External Site with Design Guides
Reactions to Brocade - Foundry deal
Network World article about the merger
Data Center Services - Cisco.com
Cisco.com Data Center Services Overview
Services for Partners - Cisco.com
Cisco.com Services for Partners
How Scottrade was Sold
Find out how Cisco drove $13M in product and services sales by helping Scottrade deliver a fast state-of-the-art data center.
Architectural Services Drive Value
Document describing how Cisco Architecture Services drives value for our customers
ROI Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet from QuickStart Topic
Data Center Virtualization & Orchestration: Business and Financial Justification
Cisco.com white paper
Data Center Case Study: How Cisco IT Achieves Consolidation and Standardization in the Data Center
Server and data storage virtualization enhances Cisco business resilience and lowers TCO.
Unified Fabric TCO Calculator
Compare Consolidated and Unconsolidated TCO costs
Enterprise Data Center Case Studies
List of externally available Data Center case studies
Panalpina Case Study
Documentation
First American Video
Hear how First American benefited from Virtualization for Collaboration
Cisco on Cisco Story
Explanation of how Cisco Data Centers use Data Center solutions to be successful
Cisco on Cisco Data Center
External website with information and resources describing how Cisco is implementing our own data center solutions.
Data Center Case Study: How Cisco IT Achieves Consolidation and Standardization in the Data Center
Server and data storage virtualization enhances Cisco business resilience, agility and lowers TCO
Data Center Virtual Tour
Tour of Cisco's San Jose Production Data Center - 8 videos