Liz Centoni

The number one reason that the organizations I talk to are so eager to digitize their environments? Data. There is so much rich data at the edge of the network – at that IoT edge. Organizations want to leverage that data to gain a competitive advantage – including utility operators such as Finland’s…

Fact. The numbers of apps worldwide will double in 2020. Fact. 50% of the apps today will be re-factored and become more distributed. Fact. Inter-app dependence will increase by 250% in the next 12 months. Fact. IT downtime costs North American organizations $700 billion per year and it requires IT…

2019 is shaping up to be a remarkable time in the 5G technology global roll-out. With its higher data rate, ultra-reliable and lower latency connectivity, and massive scale of machine-to-machine communication, 5G carries enormous potential. With 5G and cellular, consumers will enjoy UHD 4K/8K video…

8/8/19 Update: Today we completed the acquisition of Sentryo. Welcome to Cisco! When the term ‘The Internet of Things’ was first coined in the 90’s, it was used to describe a range of interconnected sensors gathering information about the real world. Today, as organizations digitize, they are connec…

One thing about Hannover Messe that is unmistakable? The huge SCALE of the event. Thousands of exhibitors. Hundreds of thousands of the world’s smartest people in manufacturing. A massive exhibition footprint. Scale is something that is very familiar to us in IoT. Scale sits at the intersection of p…

We are now taking orders for Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack, offering customers a powerful cloud-ready solution that gives them full control over how they manage data, governance, security and performance. We combined Microsoft’s robust Azure cloud platform with Cisco’s UCS server…

I am proud to share that today Cisco announced its intent to acquire Springpath, Inc., a leader in hyperconvergence software based in Sunnyvale, Calif. Cisco first made an investment in Springpath in 2015. A year later, we jointly co-engineered and developed Cisco HyperFlex Systems, a fully-integrat…

They said we were crazy. Back in 2009, when we unveiled the Cisco Unified Computing System, industry pundits – namely our competitors in the server market – said we’d overreached in a technology arena we knew little about. What we introduced was an innovative solution that unified compute, network,…

Enterprises need a scalable, flexible hybrid cloud solution that 1) responds with agility and ease, 2) is simple-to-manage, and 3) scales on demand, while retaining on-premise benefits. Where you are on your cloud journey may vary, but what’s clear is that it’s a hybrid IT journey. Cisco is accelera…