Month: July 2011

Cisco Live Q&A – Cisco’s David Antkowiak on Putting the Flex in FlexPod

In November of 2010, Cisco and NetApp along with VMware launched the FlexPod, our pre-validated, cloud platform. Since it’s release 8 months ago, the FlexPod program has been an overwhelming success. We are continuing to enhance and grow the platform, by adding new partners who focus on delivering cloud based solutions, aiding our distributors to have enhanced […]

Cisco Live Q&A – Natalie Lambert of Citrix on Desktop Virtualization Trends, Obstacles, and Opportunities

Last September Cisco and Citrix announced the first desktop virtualization Cisco Validated Design (CVD) to help customers implement standard, repeatable architectures for XenDesktop with NetApp storage. Many saw this as an indicator that desktop virtualization was (finally!) reaching a tipping point, a perception strengthened with Cisco’s November launch of its Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) vision […]

Cisco Live chat with J Metz of Cisco on FCoE & Putting the Cart Behind the Horse

My Cisco Live misadventures continued with Cisco FCoE product manager J Metz. This was my first time meeting J, a former university professor who these days promotes, evangelizes, and drives the development of FCoE products and technology. I’ve followed him online for sometime and was pretty jazzed once learning he agreed to our interview. I […]

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