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I'm happy to see that Nutanix has officially announced their upcoming strategic direction at the .NEXT conference. Using Nutanix Acropolis, KVM, and Prism - data center administrators now have the ability to truly make infrastructure invisible. What Is It? To read more about the specific details take a
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Part of my role on the Nutanix Performance and Solutions team is to "evangelize" the technology and tell the world about all the great work we're doing writing documents, testing products and solutions, and assisting with customer engagements. The physical manifestation of that is me sitting
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I wanted to share a bit of cool "value add" today, as my sales and marketing guys would call it. This is just one of the things for Avaya Aura and UC in general that a Nutanix deployment can bring to the table. Nutanix has the concept of
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The Avaya Technology Forum in Orlando was a great success! Thanks to everyone who attended and showed interest in Nutanix by stopping at the booth. I met a lot of interested potential customers and partners and was also able to learn more about what people are virtualizing these days. There
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I'm at the 2015 Avaya Technology Forum with Nutanix to talk about Avaya Unified Communications on the Nutanix platform. Stop by the Nutanix and CRI booth to see the Nutanix gear in action. Nutanix 3460 and 1450 nodes will be powering all the demos you see for Avaya
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In the last blog post I talked about sizing individual VMs. Today we'll look at placing UC VMs onto a Nutanix node (an ESXi host) and coming up with overall system sizing. First I'd like to announce the publication of my document for Virtualizing Cisco UC
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In the previous posts we covered an Introduction to Cisco UC and Nutanix as well as Cisco's requirements for UC virtualization. To quickly summarize... Nutanix is a virtualization platform that provides compute and storage in a way that is fault tolerant and scalable. Cisco UC provides a VMware
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In the last post I covered an Introduction to Cisco UC and Nutanix. In this post I'll cover UC performance and virtualization requirements. A scary part of virtualizing Cisco Unified Communications is worrying about being fully supported by Cisco TAC if a non-standard deployment path is chosen. This
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I'll be publishing a series of blog posts outlining Cisco Unified Communications on Nutanix. At the end of this series I hope to have addressed any potential concerns running Cisco UC and Nutanix and provided all the tools for a successful deployment. Your comments are welcome and encouraged.
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The past week has been a whirlwind of studying, research, and introductions now that I’ve started at Nutanix! I’m happy to be on the team working on Reference Architectures for Unified Communications. I’m planning to investigate the major Unified Communications platforms (VoIP, Voice Messaging, IM & Presence,
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Another catch up post here about a trip to San Diego straight from Hawaii for Cisco Live 2012. Seems like the weeks and months have just been melting away recently so I'll do my best to keep things brief on summary while hitting the high points. It'
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I passed my CCIE Voice Written last Friday. My CCIE is now recertified. There was some new material I hadn't seen before, but I still managed to squeak by with an 827/1000. Passing was 790/1000. To celebrate I went to the beach (Emerald Isle) with Kenneth