Cloud

Making the move to a multicloud environment is a complicated process that requires clear-headed and careful planning, an understanding of the various options and choices that have to be made and a strategy for overcoming the obstacles that no doubt will come up. As we showed in the previous blog in…

Do you feel like you “get” the Cisco/Google hybrid cloud partnership? The announcement went out in late October, and it seemed to generate a lot of excitement on a very general level. Folks in the press said things along the lines of “This makes sense. Cisco has the hardware infrastructure and the e…

The multicloud era is here. There is no denying that businesses large and small are accelerating the pace of moving applications and data to not only private and public clouds, but multiple clouds. It’s a strategy that holds a lot of promise but is not an easy one to pull off, in either the move to…

What first comes to mind when you hear the term “cloud native?” Do you think software? Software that was developed in the cloud? Software that didn’t have to be rewritten in order to live happily in a dynamic digital environment? Fair enough. That’s a natural reaction. A legitimate reaction. A…

The world is going multicloud. Organizations seeking the efficiency, speed, scalability and reduced costs the cloud promises, are rapidly moving applications and data out of their on-premises environments and into the private and public clouds, and increasingly – for high availability and disaster r…

Maybe you saw the announcement that Cisco is now providing a Google-blessed Kubernetes distribution that is super easy to install on prem.  Possibly you even watched the TechWiseTV episode that shows the wizard-like experience that spins up a container cluster in a few minutes.  Whatever your exposu…

Organizations universally agree that cloud solutions provide compelling benefits in speed, flexibility, cost model and architecture. Trade publications regularly document the latest cloud news. Vendors rush to incorporate cloud into their solutions. Industry analysts capture the latest cloud trends…

Greetings from Cisco Live Barcelona! It’s great to be here, sharing and showcasing the big things Cisco and our partners are doing to help our customers embrace multicloud. We announced one of those big things earlier today. The Cisco Container Platform is a new Cisco software offer to simplify the…

Developed by Google to shepherd their in-house container clusters, Kubernetes has been vying for the attention and adoption of cloud architects. For the past several years, Docker Swarm, Mesos and Kubernetes have engaged in the duel to bring orchestration nirvana to containerized applications. While…