cloud

Orchestrating an IT infrastructure and all the applications running on it has never been easy, even when all of that ran in a single environment fully under your control behind the firewall in your data center. Keeping track of what applications are running where and on what systems has always been…

Organizations worldwide are on an irreversible march towards embracing multiple clouds, drawn by the greater agility and flexibility, the specific functionality each one offers, as well as improved efficiencies and the ability to adapt to the fast-moving digital way of doing business. Numbers from I…

What a great leap forward for those forward-thinking Cisco development teams! Cisco IT has recently released a brand new Cloud Application Environment (CAE) for internal general availability. This is a remarkable platform-related accomplishment that drives our internal global cloud strategy forward…

At a recent network programmability workshop one of the attendees asked, “Why is Cisco teaching me Python?” I was leading a workshop for a group of senior network engineers at a large financial company that was organized and sponsored by a member of their cloud leadership team.  This made the worksh…

Do you ever wonder how other companies are dealing with cloud implementation? Are they struggling with the same things you are, or have they figured it out? Do they all use AWS, or are more moving to Google? And what about Azure? What’s the play there? When does that make sense? Are other companies…

The University of Western Australia is ranked in the top 1% of academic institutions in the world. To keep moving up, they have to keep moving ahead. Especially when it comes to tech. The university’s IT department wanted to set up a private cloud so they could better serve students and academics, a…

The multicloud era is here. There is no denying that businesses large and small are accelerating the pace of moving applications and data to not only private and public clouds, but multiple clouds. It’s a strategy that holds a lot of promise but is not an easy one to pull off, in either the move to…

What first comes to mind when you hear the term “cloud native?” Do you think software? Software that was developed in the cloud? Software that didn’t have to be rewritten in order to live happily in a dynamic digital environment? Fair enough. That’s a natural reaction. A legitimate reaction. A…

The world is going multicloud. Organizations seeking the efficiency, speed, scalability and reduced costs the cloud promises, are rapidly moving applications and data out of their on-premises environments and into the private and public clouds, and increasingly – for high availability and disaster r…