#Cloud

November 2, 2018

COLLABORATION

Take the Risk Out of Cloud Calling: Cut-Over & Migration Planning

This is the second in a seven-part blog series on migrating business communications services (e.g., Business VoIP and Unified Communications) to the cloud. The first blog, “Removing the Risk & Mystery from Cloud Migration,” focused on business risks for cloud migration and how communications ser…

November 1, 2018

COLLABORATION

Removing the Risk & Mystery from Migrating to Cloud Communications

This is the first of a seven-part series on migrating your communications to cloud.  The complexity of migrating communications to the cloud is holding up modernization. Despite the apparent “inevitability” and benefits of cloud-based communications, the majority of businesses still operate premise…

October 4, 2018

DATA CENTER

Cisco HyperFlex Climbs to Leader Status in Forrester Wave™ Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q3 2018

I’m excited to report that Cisco HyperFlex has been named as a new leader in the Forrester Wave™ Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q3 2018 report. Climbing to the ranks of a leader validates the hard work that has gone into the development and our continuous delivery of innovations to enhance Hy…

October 2, 2018

CLOUD

Modernizing On-Premises and Hybrid Cloud SAP Landscapes without Disruption

I love it when problem solvers collaborate with other like-minded people to find elegant solutions to important problems. This is exactly how Cisco came together with SAP to realize our common vision to help customers modernize infrastructures without disruption, and take advantage of flexible, inno…

October 2, 2018

CLOUD

Enabling Enterprise-Grade Hybrid Cloud Data Processing with SAP and Cisco – Part 2

Joining forces to overcome the challenges of modern data processing landscapes In part 1 of this blog series I talked about how data processing landscapes are getting more complex and heterogeneous creating roadblocks for customer who want to adopt truly hybrid cloud data applications. In the beginn…

October 1, 2018

DATA CENTER

Enterprises choose Cisco HyperFlex for SAP Application Modernization (Part 2)

SAP customers have found Cisco HyperFlex responds faster to the demands of their production workloads and improves business services with agility, flexibility and simplicity.  SAP data centers around the world are already using Cisco HyperFlex to run HANA and to modernize their infrastructure, unloc…

October 1, 2018

DATA CENTER

Enterprises choose Cisco HyperFlex for SAP Application Modernization (Part1)

There’s a new sheriff in Tech Town: Cisco HyperFlex.   IT teams across every industry and geography are transforming enterprise application deployments with hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).  HCI consolidates compute, networking and storage into a single system.  And Cisco HyperFlex is the fastes…

September 14, 2018

NETWORKING

It’s a Multi-cloud World!

According to the RightScale State of the Cloud 2018 Report, 81% of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy. Where are you in your journey to the cloud? While multi-cloud sounds easy on paper, the reality is more complex. I am sure you’ve asked yourselves some of these questions: “How do I define and…

August 30, 2018

CLOUD

The Cost of Downtime in Multicloud IT

How many times have you heard the phrase: “The network is down” in your business? This may mean that anything but the network is malfunctioning (it may be the server, storage or others), however, the always-guilty network-admin is usually the first one to blame. There have been several times where p…