cloud

January 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco’s Cloud Portfolio – A Quick Overview

Yesterday at Cisco Live! Milan we announced Cisco’s expanded, industry-leading cloud portfolio to pave the way for interoperable and highly secure public, private and hybrid clouds. If you want to learn more about the recent additions to our Cloud portfolio, Fabio Gori’s blog will provide you…

January 28, 2014

PARTNER

Updates from Cisco Live Milan 2014

Plenty of interesting news coming out of Cisco Live this week and I don’t want partners to miss anything! I’ll have a complete recap of the week for you, as always, in the Cisco Partner Weekly Rewind on Friday. In the meantime, here’s a quick recap of some of the blogs and announcements we’ve seen a…

January 28, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco InterCloud and Cisco Services: Accelerating Cloud Adoption

Written by Krishnan Subramaniam, Director (Migration Services practice), Cisco Services According to repeat surveys by IDC, the bad news is that challenges of cloud – security, data privacy, System Integration/migration, and legal issues – have not changed in more than five years.  The good news is…

January 28, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Virtualizing the Cloud

Virtualizing something like a cloud that is already virtual in so many respects may seem a bit redundant, and certainly the concept causes a mental double-take.  But virtualizing the cloud is exactly what Cisco InterCloud does. Announced today at Cisco Live here in Milan, Cisco InterCloud effectivel…

January 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Introducing Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.0

I’m at our annual Cisco Live Europe conference in Milan this week – it’s a great event and a great opportunity to introduce new innovations to customers.  In fact, today we announced the latest release of our cloud management software solution: Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (Cisco IAC) vers…

January 28, 2014

NETWORKING

WAN Management – Not on Your Watch

Network Operations Centers can be somber places.  I’ve seen quite a few during my last two decades in technology.  To monitor and manage a vast network is equal parts nerve racking and mind numbing boredom as you stare at wall-to-wall screens, waiting for an alarm to go off. Over the years, networks…

January 27, 2014

DATA CENTER

Has Hybrid Cloud Arrived ? Part 1: How Will it Shape the Role of IT Going Forward?

In this series of articles I’ll articulate the challenges customers face in hybrid cloud adoption, the key hybrid cloud requirements and ways to address them. Organizations are trying to transform their business and innovate faster by getting access to resources on-demand per business needs but ente…

January 26, 2014

DATA CENTER

Data Center and Cloud Management Software at Cisco Live Milan

Ciao! The data center and cloud management software team is in Milan this week to showcase our Unified Management solutions in the Data Center and Cloud booth as well as the Cisco ONE Platform booth at our annual Cisco Live customer event in Europe. In particular, we’ll be showcasing new software re…

January 24, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cloud-based ITaaS: Transforming IT from Support to Service Brokerage

Cloud computing is more mainstream today than ever before, but it’s important to note that there are still significant opportunities for IT leaders to innovate and leverage cloud delivery options to capture new business opportunities and implement new IT models. The Evolution of ITaaS: The Convergen…