cloud
Cisco Live Berlin 2017: It’s All About You (and the Cloud)
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…
“Show Me Your Cloud, Cisco!”
Cloud. The teenager’s internet. The celebrity’s nightmare. The IT salesperson’s most favorite or most hated word, depending on where you work. The Cristiano Ronaldo of IT. (true reaction of CEO after reading memo from CIO on Cloud) We are living in one of the most exciting and interesting times eve…
Getting to Better Business Outcomes with Cloud
I’ve spent a lot of time hearing from our customers about cloud adoption and there are three things they all agree on: (1) it’s essential to digitization, (2) not everyone starts the journey in the same place, and (3) there is no one-size-fits-all strategy. Some customers need support for new…
Automate and Simplify Your Operations – Cisco NSO Leads the Way
Change is never easy. And network management teams are facing unprecedented change as Service Providers are under pressure from their enterprise customers to deliver and support more agile service offerings. New technology innovations like programmable networks and network functions virtualization (…
Backing Up the Cloud Train
One of the best things about working in the tech industry is the passion we feel about what we do. We create products that change the world and change how business is done. We tackle challenging problems, we make incredible breakthroughs, we market our new products, and we move on. It never stops. T…
Top 5 Reasons to Assess Your Cloud Adoption Maturity in 2017
As highlighted in IDC’s recent CloudView Survey post, almost 78% of organizations use some form of cloud today, yet only 3% of the companies IDC surveyed have optimized cloud strategies in place. The most mature cloud organizations are defined by their use of DevOps, hybrid and multi-provider clouds…
The Full Potential of Intelligent WAN: Reduce Complexity With Managed Services
Intelligent WAN and the Branch Problem Most enterprises struggle with their IT strategies when it comes to branch offices. At the core of this issue is the age-old problem of cost versus benefit (and also factoring in the ultimate quality of service at each price point). In a time when IT departme…
Millennials or Unicorns?
Who’s your audience – millennials or unicorns? Of course, the answer is neither, because neither exist. It’s pretty much impossible to define what a millennial is – try it, Google has plenty of results. It’s become a shorthand term for the stage in life somewhere between skateboards and mortga…
The Apparent ‘Cloud Security Paradox’
It is all about security, isn’t it? Take every other customer survey and ‘security’ bubbles up at the very top of most respondents’ concerns. One of the latest data points I can share is part of an IDC cloud study in which security was cited as an important concern. In fact, 48% of respondents are c…