#Cloud

Hello!  I’m reporting from the OpenStack Summit in Boston. There’s one and a half days left in the summit, and it’s been great so far. I’d like to draw attention to an OpenStack group which is near and dear to my heart, the Women of OpenStack.  I am a female engineer, and hav…

Today, Cisco is announcing its intent to acquire the Advanced Analytics team and associated advanced analytics intellectual property developed by Saggezza, a privately-held technology services company. As applications are moving to the cloud and billions of things are connecting to the network, our…

Over the past several years, an immense transition has taken place as networks have become more diverse and complex. Companies large and small have many branch sites – users at the edge that need to connect securely and quickly to the network and the cloud. Software-defined wide area networking (SD-…

One of the things I value most about Cisco Partner Connection week is the in-depth conversations I get to have with many of our top partners across the globe. I heard from many of you about the customer conversations you are having about operational efficiency, risk management, and customer and work…

I spend most of my time educating channel partners, most of them Value-Added Resellers (VARs) on how Cisco CloudCenter can help them help their customers with a hybrid cloud strategy.  What I’ve noticed in my first year at Cisco after being part of the CliQr acquisition is that selling cloud service…

The way we work today has changed dramatically with growing flexibility in the workplace. With increase in user mobility, effective collaboration solutions are a must to maintain teamwork and improve productivity. To address the changing climate, many businesses have opted for collaboration as a ser…

Ask The Right Questions Of Your Managed Services Provider The value of managed services is often reduced to discussions about cost-cutting and taking a mess off the customer’s hands.  However, the real value resides in ways that managed services help streamline operations, innovate with new technolo…

The big news in March for cloud was the AWS S3 outage that brought down some large pieces of the Internet with it. While the world didn’t end, it definetly caused issues and illustrated the need for a cloud strategy that accounts for vendor failure. But managing multiple clouds, accounts, and capabi…

Cloud products have a very different kind of buyer than traditional hardware gear.  Sure, there’s some overlap between these two constituents but for Cisco, who has long been a trusted supplier of the IT organization we have a new group of people we’re getting to know: Developers in line of business…