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Accelerate Your SMB Opportunity with High Velocity Managed Services
Small and medium business (SMB)* IT trends are consistent regardless of what you read or who you talk to. IT budgets are growing, security is top of mind, and the shift to cloud in full force. For Cisco, these trends couldn’t align better. We have the buyer interest^, product leadership, and a worl…
New Cisco FindIT 2.0 Network Manager and Probe
The Cisco Small Business and the Cisco FindIT Product Teams are very pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of the Cisco FindIT Network Manager and Probe. Some of the improvements mean that some use cases are now in play especially with larger scale scenarios. We think you all will be impres…
From The Marine Corps to Cisco Network Engineer – One Veteran’s Journey
Air Traffic Controller. Military Policeman. Psychological Operations Specialist. Fire fighter. Network Engineer. I used to think that these jobs had absolutely nothing to do with each other and that they were too different to have any connections between them. It wasn’t until I became all those thin…
Cisco Wins Big at Telecom Asia Awards
Cisco emerged as the one of the biggest winner at the Telecom Asia’s 11th Readers’ Choice & Innovation Awards, winning three categories – Cloud Innovation of the Year, for Cisco Managed Services Accelerator; Data Center Innovation of the Year, for Cisco Network Assurance Engine; and NFV Innovati…
A Rose by Any Other Name …
… 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…
New Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud: Built for Managed Security Service Providers
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…
Viptela and Cisco Managed Services— Even Better Together
The Software-Defined Networking Movement Cisco has been leading the charge into enterprise software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) with its industry-leading Intelligent WAN (IWAN) solution. A complementary Meraki-based solution addresses the SD-WAN needs of the smaller enterprise a…
That was Then, This is Now: Cisco High-Value Services
In today’s world, things evolve daily. The cars we drive, the music we listen to, the way we shop, and the way we provide services to our customers. As with most things, the driving force behind evolving industries and trends are manpower. Why are there new cars every year? Because someone tho…
5 SD-WAN Operational Challenges for Service Providers to Consider
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…