cloud

Building the Cable Access Network for the Next Decade

When I talk with service provider customers these days about their goals, it’s a very different conversation than in the past. It’s no longer just technology and procurement people in the room; more and more, the people launching the actual services are steering the discussion. And they don’t want t…

April 29, 2015

PARTNER

Igniting the Intercloud Partner Ecosystem

IT today is filled with disparate islands of clouds. Cisco’s strategy to connect those islands into an interconnected global network of clouds—the Intercloud—is unique in the market. But it’s our partner-centric cloud model that really helps us stand out from the usual cloud crowd. We believe our pa…

April 29, 2015

CLOUD

Preparing for the Next Big Wave in IT: The Intercloud’s Role in Digitization

There is no question that we’re on the cusp of rapid IT evolution. Ten years ago, a small subset of IT managers and system administrators defined and drove infrastructure and services with a finite set of management tools for everyone’s use. In the emerging cloud world, the control of the data cente…

April 24, 2015

DATA CENTER

Bringing Clouds to the Sunshine State

Cisco is bringing Clouds to the Sunshine state, but we won’t let it rain on our parade. Cisco is heading to the Sunshine state for the annual SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference, May 5–7, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida and our bench is packed this year.  We will showc…

April 20, 2015

DATA CENTER

Interop 2015 : ITD is Best of Interop finalist

  ITD (Intelligent Traffic Director) has been selected in Top 3 finalists in the Best of Interop 2015 Data Center category. ITD Delivers: $2 Billion TAM disruptive technology: This technology innovation disrupts today’s $2 Billion TAM for load-balancers, redirection and clustering solutions 10…

April 20, 2015

CLOUD

Accelerating Service Provider Services Innovation via Cisco Cloud & Managed Services

As a service provider, whether you’re a traditional “network operator” or a newly emerging operator, you are constantly re-inventing your offering to keep up with changing demands and increased competition. Initiatives like Evolved Packet Core, VoLTE, Virtualized Managed Services, Cloud, and S…

April 17, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

Is Your Network Cloud Ready?

Is your network cloud ready? We at NetCraftsmen, a Cisco Gold Partner, are hearing this question more often. Let’s discuss how to tell if your network is cloud ready, and how to get there if you’re not. Even if your organization already has a public cloud presence, I hope you’ll find some ideas in t…

April 16, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco ITD is Best of Interop 2015 Finalist

Transforming Cisco switches into highly scalable zero latency load balancers! Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) does exactly that and much more! Cisco ITD  has been selected as Best of Interop 2015 finalist in the Data Center Category. Finalists were chosen from nine categories including Data…

April 8, 2015

COLLABORATION

Cisco and VBrick – Enhancing Enterprise Webcasting for Cisco Collaboration Customers

Over the past five years, we’ve seen an incredible shift in the way that organizations all over the world are using video every day. From an engineering team conducting their weekly meeting from multiple locations around the globe, to an employee being able to join an all-hands meeting from an iPad…