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Cisco Stealthwatch: Security Analytics Services without upfront cost or risk
As cybersecurity becomes more complex and demand grows for knowledgeable security staff, organizations will look for more ways to maximize their security budgets. One way to do so is to outsource security functions to a service provider. According to the Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report…
Uniserver Makes Cloud Infrastructure Look Easy
Uniserver, a leading cloud and IT services provider in the Netherlands, has a single, clear mission: to make IT simple. Internally, however, the effort involved in provisioning cloud infrastructure and services for customers was anything but. Today, Uniserver is using Cisco virtualization and networ…
Fast Tracking Network Automation
Itential Pronghorn Platform Extends Cisco Network Services Orchestrator’s Automation Service providers seeking to reduce costs and improve revenue know that increasing network automation and orchestration brings significant benefits. Traditional telco operations support systems (OSS) have tended to…
Orchestrated Assurance: What is it and why do I need it?
Service Providers aim to deliver network services faster with assured customer quality. But, as networks are becoming increasingly software-defined and programmable, the rate at which they change is also rising, driven by network-on-demand offerings and self-service portals. In this dynamic environ…
Cisco NSO Shines in First ETSI NFV Interoperability Plugtest
Interoperability standards have posed an elusive challenge for the NFV industry. Cisco recently participated in ETSI’s first Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Interoperability Plugtest, held in Madrid, Spain, between January 23 and February 3, 2017 with great success, further validating Cisco N…
With Programmable Networks, Level 3 Puts Customers Front and Center
What does it take to be an agile digital service provider in today’s competitive marketplace? For Level 3, it’s all about speed, simplicity, and flexibility. Claudio Scola (pictured left), Level 3’s director of global product marketing, spoke with Cisco about how the company is using orchestration…
SoftBank Cuts Cloud Service Deployment Times by Nearly 90 Percent With Network Virtualization, Automation, and Orchestra …
In the competitive market for network services, it’s getting harder for operators to stand out from the crowd. SoftBank, a Tier-1 service provider in Asia, is changing the game with automation, virtualization, and orchestration. Today, enterprise customers can select and tailor network service offer…
Speed, Agility, Automation—It’s All Possible with Cisco NSO
For cloud service providers, the market landscape can look like an ocean of new opportunities—or an obstacle course with one difficult challenge after another. Both perspectives are legitimate: Network services have never been more in demand, and cloud providers who capitalize can unlock major new r…
In a Cloud-Connected World, Consistency Matters
Speed. Scale. Agility. They’re the top priorities of every modern business, and the cloud promises to deliver them. What businesses don’t want is more costs and complexity. They don’t want to have to use different processes to develop and manage applications depending on whether they live on-premise…