cloud
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…