Cisco Cloud and Managed Services

Winning teams have a few things in common: they bring together diverse skills, their individual players collaborate to get the job done, and they are driven to succeed. All of those elements aligned in 2018 for the Cisco-CenturyLink partnership. Americas Service Provider Collaboration Partner of the…

… is actually sweeter in this case. The well-regarded managed service creation and delivery platform formerly known as Cisco Virtual Managed Services (VMS) is now the Cisco Managed Services Accelerator (MSX). As Cisco’s key strategic managed services platform for service providers, we feel this new…

    authored by Bryan Doerr, Cisco Cybersecurity Manager As the threat landscape continues to become more complex, more and more businesses are looking to outsource their security needs. According to the 2018 Cisco Cybersecurity Report, 44 percent of enterprises and 54 percent of small bus…

Cloud and associated networking technologies such as Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) offer significant benefits in terms of business agility and cost reduction of total cost of ownership.  SD-WAN, or software-defined networking in a wide area network, is on…

Operations Managers are very familiar with all the reasons their appliance-based networking infrastructure needs to be reconsidered—they live the problem constantly, day in and day out.  Speed is the key driver urging them to find alternate ways to deploy new network functions and services—the tradi…

If you are a part of or even peripherally connected to an IT organization or managed services provider, you probably hear the word “transformation” daily, perhaps even more frequently.  Like other well-worn terms such as “Digitization,” “DevOps,” or “Agile,” transformation can mean a lot of differen…

Across the industry, it’s hard to find anyone who doesn’t see cloud services as a huge market opportunity. According to the Cisco Global Cloud Index, global cloud IP traffic will nearly quadruple over the next several years, accounting for more than three quarters of all data center traffic by 2018.…

And when it comes to cloud there’s a lot to talk about.  According to a new IDC white paper, sponsored by Cisco, “Enabling Partner Value in the Cloud Economy”, 68 percent of companies with more than 1,000 employees are using some form of cloud or plan to implement cloud within the next 1…