With so many organizations making the move to embrace DevOps practices, we are quickly highlighting what many see as a missing piece to the puzzle: Security. As NV (Network Virtualization) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) are rapidly growing in adoption, the ability to create programmable, repeatable security management into the development and deployment workflow has become a reality. Dynamic, abstracted …
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With technology event season rapidly approaching, it is time to get your planning sorted for what exciting conventions, events, and community gatherings to join into. As a Cisco Champion I have a particular wish this year that I would love to fulfill which is to attend Cisco Live in San Franciso which happens from May 18-22. Unfortunately, it’s not in …
Why it is always, and never, the year of VDI, but network virtualization is here to stay
You’ve all heard it: The Year of VDI. It has consistently been the mantra of the launch of each calendar year since Citrix and VMware gained significant adoption during recent years. But why is it both true and false at the same time? Desktop versus Server Virtualization Server virtualization has taken hold in an incredible fashion. Hypervisors have become a …
Cisco UCS Platform Emulator on VMware Workstation
For those who want to try out the Cisco UCS Platform in a test system, you have a great option available to you which is the Cisco UCS Platform Emulator. This can be downloaded and run using VMware as your host. You can use VMware vSphere, or you can also run this on the very popular and powerful VMware Workstation. …