cloud managed services
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…
Cloud Survival for SP’s: What do you need to know to survive in the Cloud services era?
You are likely faced with unprecedented change in technology adoption, implementation of service and business go to market while trying to grow business and manage your bottom line. Customers want new services and application features delivered with agility; quickly, painlessly, on demand and with s…
Capture the Enterprise Digital Transformation Opportunity with Cisco Powered Cloud Managed SD-WAN Service
Cisco recently announced the availability of a new Cisco Powered services designation entitled Cisco Powered Cloud Managed SD-WAN (software-defined wide area networking) under a new Cisco Powered services category named Cloud Managed DNA Services. This new category of services will enable our Cloud…
Gartner Report Says Shadow IT Will Result in 1/3 of Security Breaches
Last week, Gartner published their Top 10 cloud security predictions for 2016. They predict that “by 2020, one third of successful attacks experienced by enterprises will be on their shadow IT resources.” As Gartner rightly points out, the reality is your business is engaging with shadow IT resource…
Quest Cuts through the Cloud Complexity to Deliver New Managed Services at Scale
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.…
Backed by Cisco and Microsoft, UDT Delivers Business-Class Hybrid Cloud
What do you say when your customers want a diverse range of cloud services—SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, private, public, hybrid—with the ability to deploy on demand? What if they want the flexibility to order and manage them all from the cloud, while keeping their data onsite? And what if they say they can’t w…
Dinner as a Service (DaaS) – or a just better path to the cloud?
I’ll be the first to admit that I am not a cloud expert by any means: not as a private pilot or marketing professional working in high tech.. But I do know this Cloud computing can be intimidating – just as real clouds are intimidating to any general aviation pilot looking to fly from point A…
Contact Center Analytics that Drive Customer Loyalty through Better Customer Experiences
As part of Cisco’s connected analytics portfolio of software and services announced in December, we combine Cisco’s rich intellectual capital, knowledge base and deep network expertise with business analytics domain and data expertise to create analytical insights that deliver customer business outc…