Kostas Roungeris

We have been talking a lot about containers, Kubernetes, and open source here at Cisco. And we are not the only ones. The entire IT industry is now trying to compete on the “Kubernetes and open-source control plane” battlefield. This relates to a more general mindset shift from investing in siloed t…

Last January, we introduced the next chapter of multicloud application and workflow management with CloudCenter Suite, in a new version that brings significant new functionality and capabilities with the addition of Cost Optimizer and Action Orchestrator. Now CloudCenter Suite is also available “as…

It’s no secret that users demand more in the digital age. This means going beyond brands and proprietary technologies to ensure things work together seamlessly and make people’s lives simpler, faster and easier. When we announced our partnership with Google Cloud in 2017, we talked about our shared…

The last few months have been quite interesting from a cloud perspective with lots of new innovations. Just before the end of the year we announced and made available our latest hybrid solution, a product of collaborating with AWS, the Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS (yes there are defin…

Unidentified Flying Objects, or unexplained aerial observations, have been reported throughout history. The term ‘flying saucer’ wasn’t coined until 1947, when an amateur pilot in the US was misquoted in the press when he claimed he saw nine crescent-shaped objects flying through the air like “sauce…

The recent CNCF CloudNative 2017 conference in Berlin played host to the crème de la crème of IT, niche container-focused software vendors, and integrators. All of them came equipped with their most switched-on engineers and marketers (intentionally leaving the usual marketing glaze behind). I was t…

I was born in the mid-80s. I started breaking down computers quite early and I had PSTN internet by the time I was 16 (having frequent arguments with my parents when they regularly disconnected me in order to hold meaningless important conversations with other members of our extended Greek family).…

Berlin. Europe’s Europe. Where someone thought of doing this so you can smile when paying to park your car: Where this was also happening the week before the last: In other words, the first Cisco Live for 2017 (and unsurprisingly the subject of this post). But before I get into the details of the…

Cloud. The teenager’s internet. The celebrity’s nightmare. The IT salesperson’s most favorite or most hated word, depending on where you work. The Cristiano Ronaldo of IT. (true reaction of CEO after reading memo from CIO on Cloud) We are living in one of the most exciting and interesting times eve…