cloud

Agility. Simplicity. Efficiency.

Cisco EPN Manager for Service Providers Guest blog by Alison O’Brien, Marketing Manager Following-up on the recent successful announcement of the Evolved Programmable Network Manager application (EPN Manager), we caught up with JL Valente, Vice President of Product Management for Cisco’s Cloud…

July 28, 2015

CLOUD

Unicorns and Global Digital Disruption: Part I

Today, we’re in a digital disruption age where “software is eating the world”, We see “Kingmakers” globally designing, hacking, and producing “Unicorns” that are impacting both your business and Data Center. How Are They Doing This? Well, technology is driving the boom. Smartphones, cheap sensors,…

July 24, 2015

CLOUD

Help Choose Speakers for the Tokyo OpenStack Summit

If you’re an OpenStack Foundation member—and especially if you’re attending the Tokyo Summit in October — step up! It’s time to vote for speakers! The polls opened last night and are closing soon (July 30 at 11:59 PM PDT). The following link will take you to the main Foundation voting page where yo…

July 23, 2015

CLOUD

Intercloud Fabric – TechWiseTV and 15 minutes (or less) of Fame

In middle school in the late 70s I took a test that was supposed to indicate my future career. The suggested careers were given a probability ranking. The top two results, by far were Entertainer at number 1 and Scientist at number 2, with the difference in probability between them almost impercepti…

The Ubiquitous Nature of the Internet of Everything (IoE) drives new Network Requirements

Co-written with Taru Khurana, Senior Analyst, SP Thought Leadership The ubiquitous nature of Internet of Everything (IoE) is driving a digital transformation in many industries and businesses. This digital disruption has already begun and it’s driving advanced cloud access and network performance r…

July 21, 2015

CLOUD

Straddling the Fast and Slow Lanes

IT organizations are struggling with how to maintain what they have while also reacting to the rapidly changing needs of the business. Some think this means “transforming” IT into a new, agile organization – instead, we can use “bimodal IT”. But what does it really mean?…

July 21, 2015

TECHWISETV

Intercloud Fabric: Unleashing Hybrid Cloud

TechWiseTV Episode 174 featuring Cisco Intercloud Fabric, part of the Enterprise Cloud Suite with guest John McDonough, @johnamcdonough YouTube Preview https://youtu.be/XjPGaZK-yTE Watch the full show right now. Related Episode 171: Cloud Agility for automation in the private cloud featuring Cisco…

July 21, 2015

CLOUD

New white paper: “Build your Strategic Roadmap to Fast IT”

Fast IT has the power to completely transform the role and the value of IT to the business. It is a critical imperative for those CIOs who want to transform themselves from the mere owners of technology stacks to the drivers of their enterprise’s digital transformation. CIOs must reinvent the…

July 20, 2015

COLLABORATION

Transforming Customer Care with the Cisco Collaboration Cloud

Customers are interacting with organizations in many different ways – from voice to email, chat and social media – using a variety of devices including smartphones and tablets. Many organizations are still figuring out how to deal with the evolving customer who is using any channel, any device…