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June 14, 2016

CLOUD

Not Everything Stays in Vegas!

It is nearly impossible to miss the business transformation taking place in every organization.  Multiple industry trends are combining to create a perfect storm where IT organizations need to manage almost constantly changing diversity and explosion of applications, workload locations and users.  …

June 7, 2016

DATA CENTER

5 Reasons Customers Have Made ACI The Market Leader

Recently, Network World said ACI is the market leader for number of SDN deployments. Let’s take a moment to consider what that means and why it’s the case. First, there is the obvious, in that over 1,800 customers have selected ACI as their Software Defined Network solution. But beyond that, what is…

June 2, 2016

DATA CENTER

Will Cloud Displace Partners Doing System Integration & Professional Services?

“Enterprises won’t need systems integration and professional services if they shut down their IT Operations and move to the cloud.” – Light Reading, May 31, 2016 Without any context, that quote could be wildly misinterpreted, and create some angst for you. Because if you’re reading this, you’re prob…

May 23, 2016

CLOUD

It’s back to school

My youngest daughter, a very energetic happy-go-easy fourth grader, was looking over my shoulder as I was working on this blog. “Dad, why talk about going back to school before the summer break even starts?” Good point, considering her world. A world that is so simple compared to that of grown-ups.…

April 26, 2016

NETWORKING

Are You Ready to Test Drive Location Services?

If you’ve been curious about location services, but always assumed it was complicated to deploy, too technical for non-IT folks, too expensive, or all of the above, hear me out. Perhaps you run a public-facing organization – maybe it’s a retail mall, hotel, an airport, or a café. In this new digital…

Cisco @ NAB: Is Your Media Business Secure? (Are You Sure?)

By Michal Brenner, Marketing Manager, Service Provider Video Software and Solutions, Cisco In the global digital revolution unfolding around us, the media broadcast segment is particularly well-stocked with opportunity. It’s well proven (time and time again!) that direct-to-consumer video delivery b…

April 18, 2016

CLOUD

Cisco Has Plenty In Store For You at the OpenStack Summit in Austin

The upcoming OpenStack Summit will be Cisco’s first Headline sponsorship at this semi-annual gathering of the OpenStack community…and it’s a good thing we’re headed to Austin because we need a Texas-sized venue to share everything. The Cisco booth (C11) at the OpenStack Summit is going to be filled…

Cisco @ NAB: Debuting our Cloud Scale Media Experiences To Help Media Companies Serve Up More Video

If you’re following the 2016 NAB landscape, you know that broadcasters and media companies (like yours!) are bracing for a traffic tripling, in and out of their data centers, as they grow content production for on-demand, multi-screen and 4K viewing. It’s all part of the pursuit of technologies and…

Cisco @ NAB: Update on the Cisco ISV Program for Media

By Roger Sherwood, Business Development Manager, Service Provider, Cisco Last year, as you may or may not recall, we came to NAB with a certification program for independent software vendors (ISVs) focused on media-centric applications. The idea was to make it possible to pair their apps with the C…