s it time to plan for an upgrade again? Cisco has announced that the timeframe between major and minor version releases of their Cisco Unified Communication Management (CUCM) application is accelerating. The accelerated time and frequency level of upgrades is pushing businesses to have robust, validated, and "ease of use" processes to perform upgrades. We had a global financial customer request we build a lab environment in the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) to help them perform testing on the software upgrade process for their multiple CUCM clusters.

We had a customer who wanted us to do thermal and power testing around a compute solution. The Proof of Concept (POC) was set up to verify or validate power and thermal readings for the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) components (specifically the 5108 chassis, 2408 IO Modules, and 6454 Fabric Interconnects) of the FlashStack design.

Performance testing of VMware vSAN on Dell PowerEdge servers and Arista switches done for a large financial customer.

Digital transformation has resulted in a significant increase in real-time data creation, which has driven demand for real-time analytics and AI/ML applications.