Cloud Computing
Identifying and Solving the Cloud Sprawl Problem
An interesting read for me one day last week was the Wall Street Journal reporting on the exploding yet ungoverned use of cloud services by employees in just about every organization. Referring to Rachael King writing for CIO Journal, author Steve Rosenbush outlines the potential for security probl…
Interop 2015 : ITD is Best of Interop finalist
ITD (Intelligent Traffic Director) has been selected in Top 3 finalists in the Best of Interop 2015 Data Center category. ITD Delivers: $2 Billion TAM disruptive technology: This technology innovation disrupts today’s $2 Billion TAM for load-balancers, redirection and clustering solutions 10…
Cisco ITD is Best of Interop 2015 Finalist
Transforming Cisco switches into highly scalable zero latency load balancers! Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) does exactly that and much more! Cisco ITD has been selected as Best of Interop 2015 finalist in the Data Center Category. Finalists were chosen from nine categories including Data…
Security-as-a-Feature
Some of you may remember Marathon Man, starring Lawrence Olivier as the evil Nazi dentist Dr. Christian Szell, and Dustin Hoffman as a graduate student nicknamed Babe. Szell has come to New York from his South American jungle hideaway to retrieve a cache of diamonds, but he’s not sure he won’t be wa…
IoT, from Cloud to Fog Computing
Introduction Nowadays, there are billions of devices connected to the Internet, and this has led to some advances in the Electronics and Telecommunication technology developments in recent years which resulted in various kinds of very powerful devices with communication and networking capabilities t…
ISVs Moving to the Cloud – New Partners
In my previous Cisco Blog post, I discussed the business models an ISV can deploy in moving to the Cloud. In this Cisco Blog, I’ll discuss one of the most important parts of any software company’s business model: the cost of sales. Cost of Sales is Highest Cost for any Software Business…
Building a Successful Hybrid Cloud That Delivers Flexibility, Choice and Control
The debate about whether businesses need hybrid clouds is over. Technology executives see value in public clouds because they offer speed, economics, and scale that are very hard to achieve in a private cloud environment. On the other hand, private clouds offer control, data sovereignty, and securit…
Traditional ISVs – Transform your Business into the World of Cloud Computing
If you’re a traditional on-premises software company, you’re in the right place. Today, I will talk about how cloud computing can transform your business. In a subsequent Cisco Blog, I’ll discuss the implication this move will have on your sales and distribution strategy. Model One Business Model Tr…
State of the Cloud: A Case Study of One Company’s Journey
People often ask me: “Is cloud computing really being adopted?” Over the years, I’ve talked to large and small companies to find out the state of the art in their particular businesses. There is much more in both the recently released Cloud Computing: Operation Efficiency and Cloud Computing: Tran…
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