AWS

February 28, 2018

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 37: Roger Dickinson on Customer Experiences with Multicloud Optimization

Do you ever wonder how other companies are dealing with cloud implementation? Are they struggling with the same things you are, or have they figured it out? Do they all use AWS, or are more moving to Google? And what about Azure? What’s the play there? When does that make sense? Are other companies…

February 14, 2018

SECURITY

DevSecOps: Security at the Speed of Business

[This is part two of a four-part blog series about DevSecOps.] In Part One of this blog series DevSecOps – Win Win for All, we established a foundation for DevSecOps practices with our Cloud Security Manifesto. In Part 2 of this series, we will describe another key aspect of DevSecOps – develo…

January 28, 2018

CLOUD

Cisco Cloud to the Rescue

I’m on my way to Barcelona and I’m more excited than ever to attend another Cisco Live! The reason why I’m so pumped up is twofold. First of all, the economy cabin of my long-haul flight from San Francisco to Munich treated me much better than expected and I almost slept for the entire duration of t…

December 7, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 29: The State of OpenStack, and a Few Other Things, with Ben Kepes

He’s an ultra-marathoner, a highly respected tech industry reporter, and an angel investor (he’s not at all fond of that last label for its sheer pretentiousness, but I can’t think of any other way to describe what he does). He works a lot, but doesn’t really work for anyone—except himself. All of w…

November 29, 2017

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Bridging the IoT Computing Gap: Edge Compute, IoT Gateways, and AWS

I’m at AWS re: Invent this week – it’s always an exciting show with fantastic exhibits, compelling presentations, and cutting edge demos. It’s been great to see all that Cisco is doing with AWS, in terms of networking, security, analytics, and management. One of the things we are excited to bring to…

July 25, 2017

CLOUD

Function-as-a-Service 101: What is it?

My favorite part about making a living in the tech industry is that there is always something new to learn.  When Amazon Web Services launched in 2006 it slowly began to change they way that people thought about compute infrastructure and software architectures.  But what is the next technology on t…

June 13, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud and On-Premises: The Best of Two Worlds

Let’s be honest, when most IT people are questioned about cloud, immediately they would mention either Amazon (AWS) or Microsoft Azure; some may also mention Google Cloud Platform, IBM SoftLayer or even Rackspace. All of them are Public Cloud providers with their own expertise and offering as well a…

April 17, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco HyperFlex vs. Public Cloud

Late last year, I compared Cisco’s S3260 Storage Server to Amazon’s S3 service. The results shocked a lot of people and spurred a lot comments on the blog.…

April 13, 2017

NETWORKING

Cisco SD-WAN Networking Service for Public Clouds

Guest post by Fan Yang & Tony Banuelos Enterprises across all verticals are migrating their applications to public cloud (IaaS) services and taking advantage of the great cost savings on compute hosting. But the cost benefits shouldn’t affect security, scalability or customer experience. Enterpr…