Cloud Computing

July 2, 2018

GOVERNMENT

Why the Future of Freedom, and Secure Communications, Is in the Cloud

We enjoy a wonderful array of freedoms in our nation. But with the ever-shrinking news cycle and flurry of daily life, that fact is often ignored. It’s easy to forget that our freedoms started with thousands of farmers, small business owners, laborers, and other colonists seeking self-governance. To…

June 27, 2018

GOVERNMENT

Edge and fog computing: Key to safer streets? (Part 3)

In parts one and two, we used Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi movie, Westworld, to illustrate the concepts of edge and fog computing and how they may be the key to smarter cities. In our third and final blog, we’ll break with the old west theme a bit and look to the future of transportation. From aut…

June 7, 2018

DATA CENTER

New FlexPod Solutions Simplify the Delivery of Cloud Infrastructure and Industry-specific Applications

Modern data centers face increasing demands for agile, high performance service delivery. Digital transformations are driving an increased number of applications with more sources of data, and often times that data is critical proprietary data or in the case of healthcare providers, patient data tha…

May 25, 2018

CLOUD

Business is a Team Sport: The Importance of Growing Your Solutions Ecosystem

Cloud computing, software-defined networking, Internet of Things, AI, machine learning, blockchain, quantum computing: Are you trying to go it alone developing innovative solutions using these and other complex technologies? That’s no longer a tenable position for the vast majority of companies. Ver…

May 15, 2018

GOVERNMENT

IDC analyst Part 1: How to make multi-cloud work for government

Guest Blogger: Adelaide O’Brien, Research Director, Government Digital Transformation Strategies at IDC Through her work at IDC, Adelaide drives better understanding of the full scope of efforts needed for digital transformation. This includes focusing on innovative technologies like Big Data…

January 23, 2018

CLOUD

Encrypted On-Prem Connections to Public Clouds

Last time in this space I covered APIGee, a component of the Cisco and Google Hybrid Cloud announcement that enables legacy data stores to be front-ended by a modern, secure API with analytics and monitoring.  But if you have business logic running in the public cloud, how can you securely and relia…

January 17, 2018

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Episode 32: Steve Dake

If you’ve been involved with OpenStack for a while you probably know Steve Dake. He started early on, as the team lead of the Heat project. That’s right –Heat– the core orchestration project at the heart of OpenStack. Once Heat became mature, he moved on to work on Magnum, where he…

January 3, 2018

INNOVATION

New-Gen Technologies Make IoT Transformational

Over the last few years, many people—myself included—have been touting the Internet of Things (IoT) as a driving force behind digital transformation. But is IoT by itself truly that transformational? Well, I would argue that it is not. IoT focuses mainly on securely connecting devices that generate…

December 19, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered, Episode 30: Lax Sakalkale on the Cisco Multicloud Portfolio

If you’re wondering what Cisco’s Multicloud Portfolio is and what it has to do with our recent Google announcement, you’re not alone. At least I suspect you’re not. I mean, as transparent as we try to be with our many announcements about new products and solutions, sometimes we’re just…not. And othe…