Carlos Campos Torres

A few weeks back, I experienced a set of events related to my heart (nothing to worry in case you were wondering) and I just realized how many times we take this critical organ for granted. It is amazing how it adapts as our body changes, pumping blood to every cell continuously. Since I am an IT gu…

If you have been reading my previous blogs, you might have learned a bit on why MultiCloud Networking and Automation are key in today’s IT-driven world. In this blog I wanted to change the pace a little bit and address one of the most recurrent questions I get from many customers: “How do I start?”…

I had the chance to spend some time with some of our customers at Cisco Live Melbourne this past week where they asked me about ways to justify the migration to a Software-Defined-Network approach with ACI, by providing hard evidence that this is a game-changer for any industry. I joked with them (s…

Businesses rely on IT to differentiate in any industry by providing better services and user experiences in today’s Digital World. The network has evolved, and it plays a key role in this journey. I often get asked about my top recommendations when building Enterprise Data Center Networks and I want…

In today’s world, applications mean (among many others) business, entertainment, education, news and, of course… profit. There are entire new businesses created from applications, and…. there are entire existing businesses surviving through applications. Did you know that according to Statista there…

Security is a topic that is a top-of-mind for every CIO out there. It is interesting to know that according to a study performed by Research 451, 64% of enterprises report information security is not a separate line in terms of budget, instead, it is part of their IT infrastructure one. In other wor…

According to recent studies like Cisco Global Cloud Index, 94% of all workloads will be processed by Private & Public Cloud Data Centers by 2021, so I guess that adopting the Cloud is not a matter of if, but a matter of when. Once we accept it and understand the benefits, the quest usually begin…

Change is inevitable and it may be a fortunate consequence of growth. In an era where agility is needed and delivering new and better services faster may be the difference between outpacing our competitors or not, IT is many times perceived as one of the major roadblocks. For example, think about a…

How many times have you heard the phrase: “The network is down” in your business? This may mean that anything but the network is malfunctioning (it may be the server, storage or others), however, the always-guilty network-admin is usually the first one to blame. There have been several times where p…