Azure

November 5, 2019

NETWORKING

Cisco and Microsoft Advance Technology Partnership to Improve SD-WAN and Cloud Connectivity

When I meet CIOs in small and large enterprises, they almost always ask if Cisco can do more to help their employees get the best application experience in cloud apps and services, while maintaining high security. While the internet is rapidly becoming the preferred method of connectivity due to cos…

September 18, 2019

DATA CENTER

The Multicloud Vision of Cisco’s ACI Anywhere Becomes Reality

The data center is not centered in one place anymore. With applications active at all points on the network, the data center can no longer be confined to a specific place but be more of a nerve cluster situated where the data is—which could be anywhere along the edge-cloud continuum. At the edge, wh…

January 24, 2019

NETWORKING

Improved performance and pay-as-you-go in Microsoft Azure

Posted on behalf of contributing author:  Travis Carlson Travis has worked in networking and telecommunications for 10 years with experience in device programmability, routing, Network Function virtualization (NFV), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. In Enterprise Routi…

November 16, 2018

SECURITY

Agentless threat detection for Microsoft Azure workloads with Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud

Detecting threats, such as malware, rogue insiders, and credential abuse, within public cloud environments can be a major challenge. Traditionally, organizations have tried to solve this problem by overlaying a patchwork of agents across the cloud surface to detect bad activity. This approach requir…

June 13, 2018

DATA CENTER

Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack Just Upped the Ante

Guest Blogger: John McAbel Senior Product Manager Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack now with M5 Skylake based hybrid storage options Just in time for summer, Cisco offers new configurations for Cisco’s Azure stack solution. These newe…

March 29, 2018

DATA CENTER

Introducing the All flash Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack

Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack just keeps getting better. With this newest configuration, Cisco offers a wider range of storage flexibility. The all-flash option ships with solid-state drives, and NVMe PCIe composing the cache tier with 30, 45, or 60 TB of capacity per server. All…

March 13, 2018

CLOUD

How a Multicloud World is Changing the WAN

Organizations worldwide are on an irreversible march towards embracing multiple clouds, drawn by the greater agility and flexibility, the specific functionality each one offers, as well as improved efficiencies and the ability to adapt to the fast-moving digital way of doing business. Numbers from I…

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…

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…