{"id":2270,"date":"2013-04-25T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T18:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2013-04-30T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T18:51:47","slug":"sf-bay-area-ucs-users-group-april-25-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=2270","title":{"rendered":"SF Bay Area UCS Users Group – April 25, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As a new Cisco Unified Computing System<\/a> user, I recently attended the quarterly SF Bay Area UCS Users Group on April 25, 2013 at Cisco in Santa Clara<\/a>.\u00a0 It was informative and I’m glad I went.\u00a0 The public is invited to these, so if you have UCS or want to talk to someone who has UCS, you should register and come on down.<\/p>\n

There were perhaps 30? people there on this day.\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 The event is hosted by Cisco, and facilitated by various Cisco employees, notably Bill Lulofs<\/a>, who is one of the consulting design engineers for Unified Data Center in Northern California.\u00a0 Cisco and Fusion IO provided lunch.<\/p>\n

This group is just getting started, so right now there are a lot of presentations from vendors, and not so much group member interactions.\u00a0 That is typical in my experience with new groups like this.\u00a0 I imagine as we meet more, that we’ll mature into less vendor, more group interaction.<\/p>\n

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Agenda<\/p><\/div>\n

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First up at 1100 was Jacob Van Ewyk<\/a> from Cisco (they had a last minute presenter change, so I can’t recall if the presenter was Jacob or an alternate…)\u00a0 He covered new changes to the latest UCS<\/a> and UCS Central.<\/p>\n

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I turned my flash off so as to not bother the presenter, and got some shake. Sorry for the bad picture.<\/p><\/div>\n

Next was Jason Seifried<\/a> from Datalink<\/a> (a Cisco partner) who demonstrated Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller<\/a>.\u00a0 This appears on its face to be just another cloud management suite, but has extra no-so-obvious goodness in that it is built to command FlexPods.\u00a0 With Cloupia<\/del> CUIC<\/a> you can not only see the status of all the components of the FlexPod (chassis, blades, switches, storage) you can command and configure them.\u00a0 That is seriously cool!<\/p>\n

After lunch, Bradley Dunn<\/a> (they had a last minute presenter change, so I can’t recall if the presenter was Bradley or an alternate…) from Fusion IO<\/a> went over Accelerating Applications with Fusion Powered Cisco UCS<\/a>, specific devices for accelerating UCS for use with VDI, etc.\u00a0 If you need more IOs from your storage system, then Fusion IO can help you avoid the forklift.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Last we had Jabari Norton<\/a> from MapR talked about “Cisco UCS with MapR:\u00a0 Delivering Advanced Performance for Hadoop Workloads<\/a>“.\u00a0 Solving Big Data problems with Hadoop is becoming common, but Hadoop is a Linux style roll-your-own solution that obeys Zawinski’s law – “Linux is only free if your time has no value.”<\/a>\u00a0 MapR has done all of the integration of Hadoop components and added some technology to make solving Big Data problems easier and even almost turnkey.<\/p>\n

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