cloud strategy

Retail is arguably the most dynamic industry out there. Changing routes to market, increasingly mobile shoppers and the direct connection even between manufacturers and the end consumer means that an agile IT platform is critical. And what better way for retailers to stay on their toes, than with a…

It is no secret that retailers are moving to a cloud/multi-cloud environment. This data migration is important, as it enables retailers to continually deploy the digital solutions that best serve customers and associates, while improving operations. Not to mention, data centers can get costly to hou…

Well the Big 5G Event in Denver has come to a close for this year. Cisco was the Diamond sponsor at the Big 5G Event in Denver this week. This event is a merger of Light Reading’s Big Communications Event and Informa’s 5G North America. This event focuses the industry conversation on the…

The recently released Cisco Global Cloud Index study predicts that by 2021, 94 percent of all workloads and compute instances will be processed in the cloud. Public cloud is expected to grow faster than private cloud and by 2021 the majority share of workloads and compute instances will live in the…

When I think about my old days at school, I remember my enthusiasm of learning new “cool” things such as thermodynamics, electronics devices and circuits and digital signal processing. Then, during my first 2 years working as an engineer, it was awesome to learn about ATM, Frame Relay, ISDN and the…

It’s time for Cisco Live! Europe. Next week and for the second year in a row we will host the event in Berlin, Germany. If you are not familiar with Cisco Live, you can watch a brief video with some of the highlights from last year. Cisco Live is about you. This is your time to learn, network, share…

Over the past few years, I have seen IT organizations adopt cloud in very different ways. Some organizations prefer to standardize their cloud infrastructure to drive efficiencies in their data centers. As a result, they eventually reduce the number of suppliers across their entire IT value chain. C…

Is your cloud strategy achieving all your business goals? Do you know where you stack up against your peers? Here at Cisco we partnered with IDC in a cloud study of unprecedented scale of over 6,100 organizations to help our customers find exactly that out. Because cloud – private, public or hybrid…

Many organizations realize the fact that only a limited percentage of private cloud implementations will remain within the boundaries of their data center(s). And that is why they are already deploying hybrid clouds to achieve significant benefits such as: Lower TCO On-demand flexibility for hostin…