Cisco IT
Migration – How did Cisco IT get from Legacy PBX to Unified Communications?
There is plenty of reading collateral out on the internet that covers the “technology” side of migrating from a legacy voice system to IP Telephony and Unified Communications (e.g. Cisco Collaboration Systems Migration and the Cisco IT Migration Best Practice) but not much that covers the human aspe…
What is Cisco IT’s UC Global Cluster Architecture?
Over the last 15 years, we’ve progressively centralized our UC architecture. As WAN services have become bigger, better and more cost effective, we’ve been able to rely more heavily on the network to extend UC services out to the branch networks. …
The Road to Unified Communications – Flexibility, Mobility, Simplicity
When a particularly transformational technology comes along, Cisco IT sets out to be Cisco’s first and best customer. We use it, adopt it, and prove it adds value to the business. By doing this, we’re not only able to show customers the value of our product, but we’re also able to find new-technolog…
SDN and Network Programmability
In this video, Cisco Distinguished IT Engineer Jon Woolwine and I discuss Cisco IT’s approach to Network Programmability and SDN, describing some SDN-related use case solutions currently in development.…
Taking the Journey to Private Cloud Services
Building our Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure Services (CITEIS) has been a journey of planning, development, and deployment. Cisco customers will find the steps we’ve taken helpful in looking at their own plans for offering IT private cloud services.…
How a Cisco IT Team Uses the CITEIS Private Cloud
My team maintains and supports Cisco IT’s internal implementation of the Cisco WebEx Social collaboration platform. Cisco employees use WebEx Social for internal collaboration and knowledge sharing in online communities, and as a central repository for documents, videos, and other information resour…
Cisco IT Streamlines Big Data Operations with Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
Like many IT organizations, Cisco’s internal IT department is deploying Big Data solutions to mine the ever-increasing data in-flow from a wide range of sources – and thus gain competitive advantage and insights. The typical environment includes an ecosystem of different tools and data sources that…
Cisco IT Best Practices for Creating a Private Cloud
The Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure Services program, or CITEIS, is our internal implementation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) resources in a private cloud. CITEIS is designed to provide a consumer-type IT experience to our developers while Cisco IT maintains…
Cisco IT at CiscoLive! Cancun 2013
With the theme Tomorrow Starts Here – El Mañana comienza Hoy, CiscoLive! Latin America will be returning to México on the 5th November 2013, at the Moon Palace Golf & Spa resort in Cancun! Once again, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about all the latest technologies that Cisco has t…