Category: Datacenter

UCS Test Drive – Farmington, Ct – 12/14 & 12/15

The Cisco Unified Computing System family of products is a next-generation computing solution based on industry-standard technologies and innovative management concepts. Cisco UCS redefines the way data centers use and deploy compute resources while reducing management overhead and increasing efficiency. This two-day course provides you with an architectural overview of the Cisco UCS and how it can be deployed to increase compute density, reduce the cabling, power, and cooling burdens, and accelerate server provisioning in both virtualized and non- virtualized environments for a variety of datacenter workloads.

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Cisco & MapR Big Data Everywhere User Group Meeting – 11/4 – 8-2

MapR and Cisco are excited to bring you Big Data Everywhere in New York on November 4, 2015.

Don't miss this half-day conference focused on Hadoop and surrounding technologies. You’ll hear from users and developers who will share their experiences via real-life financial services success stories. Learn from industry experts who will exchange Hadoop knowledge, share best practices, and discuss Hadoop use cases.

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Orchestration for Bi-Modal IT, Experience Cisco UCS with Cloud Solution Labs – NY, NY, 12/8

Are you exploring ways to accelerate applications within your data center through Automation and Cloud Solutions? What if you could achieve workload mobility, agility, and speed through Cisco’s Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions?

Join Cisco for a 1-day training session to learn and experience how our world class Unified Compute System (UCS) can not only capture the traditional Blade and Rack Market but also incrementally expand into the Branch Office and Cloud Scale Application market.

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How Are We Going to Pay for All This IoT? Cisco Capital President Kristine Snow Has the Answer!

The IoT industry is blowing up in all directions and the growth potential is huge. In fact, depending on which analyst you ask, it might be damn near unlimited. Well, with all those devices, from the edge to the network, getting connected, pulling data and analyzing the living daylights out of it, the costs can grow almost as fast as the number of devices.

Since enterprises especially will be shelling out big bucks for new system installments, or massive retrofits, an enterprise-level solution is needed to finance that kind of capital expenditure.

Enter Cisco Capital. Cisco’s financial arm operates as a financing house, funding purchases of Cisco technology solutions, providing credit lines to Cisco’s partners and offering refurbished products at discounted rates.

We spoke to Kristine Snow, President, Cisco Capital, to find out how she works with Cisco’s clients and partners to ease the road toward IoT implementation.

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Cisco ACI Test Drive Workshop with Intel® Xeon® Processors – Norwalk, 10/29 & 10/30 (Free training – $1300 value!)

Join us and our learning partner Firefly for a two-day workshop on Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™), which runs on Intel® Xeon® processors.

This workshop focuses on helping you understand the Cisco ACI architecture and how it can be implemented. See how Cisco ACI can be applied to your network to optimize its scalability, agility, performance, and operational efficiency.

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