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CIOs: Does your network keep you up at night? It should.
Author: Andy Scholl, Marketing Manager @ Cisco What keeps CIOs up at night? According to CIO Magazine’s annual survey of CIO concerns, everything from security threats, to data protection, to the skills gap to digital transformation are top-of-mind. What’s not on their list? Their networks. The he…
Five Networking Trends You Can’t Ignore at Gartner IT Symposium/XPO
Whether you’re the CIO of a Fortune 500 company, or you’re managing the still-complex network strategy of a smaller company, you need to know what to prepare for—what are the trends in networking you can’t ignore? I am delighted to speak at next week’s Gartner IT Symposium/XPO in Orlando, where I wi…
Drive Your Cloud Services Portfolio with Webex and the Jobs to be Done Framework
We learned in the first post of this blog series how service providers (SPs) can use the Jobs to be Done (JTBD) framework to better engage with their customers and achieve superior results. In this post, we look at how JTBDs are applied for the Cisco Webex suite. We look at key elements of JTBD cons…
CIOs Need to Cross the Chasm
Retail is an innovation game. But resources are limiting, and the need for ROI is constant. How does digital set the agenda for a CIO and what are their main concerns? And more specifically, how does the merging of LoB and IT priorities lend itself to the evolving priorities of a retail CIO today?…
Manufacturing CIO’s – Build your blueprint for transformation at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2018
From IoT to security to modernizing the plant floor and increasing support for business applications, manufacturing CIO’s have a lot coming at them. The enterprise is extending, and barriers that were once clearly defined as operation technology (OT) and information technology (IT) are increasingly…
The 3 Ps of Comprehensive Cybersecurity
There is no question that the threat of cybersecurity breaches is business impacting in our ever-increasing connected world. There are two data points that I like to use on this matter to illustrate the impact: According to a CIO Insight survey, 71% of executives surveyed said that concerns over cy…
Navigating the Digital Age with Services Partners
Cisco has been delivering services to our customers for over 30 years. As part of the Services organization for nearly two decades, I’ve had the opportunity to help Cisco evolve with every major technology transition and global economic inflection point. Along the way, my focus has always been on cu…
Services are evolving. How about your expectations?
As an IT leader, you’re in an interesting position. If you’re an optimist, you might say you’ve never had a greater opportunity to lead your business to growth. If you’re a pessimist, well — how on earth are you supposed to deliver what your Board is asking for with the resources you have available?…
Cisco Container Platform: What’s In It For Me?
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…