CloudCenter

If you are a data center network manager, your 2018 resolution should include attending these data center sessions. These sessions will open your eyes, and affect how you design and invest in your data center from now on. I know there is a lot of noise out there, so this list will help you stay focu…

How many times have you wondered: Should I automate this task? What about the end-to-end process? How many times do I need to use the automation to justify the work needed to set it up and maintain it? As an engineer myself, I have asked these question many times. Can I write a script to do repeti…

You already know that Cisco CloudCenter is CliQr, right? Right? OK, maybe not. If you follow technology news, you probably heard a lot about CliQr a few years ago. It was a hot cloud management startup. You also probably heard that Cisco acquired it back in April of 2016. But you probably didn’t hea…

In the last year or so I had more than a hundred meetings with our customers and partners and experienced a very diverse spectrum of cloud needs and readiness. Nearly everybody understood how Cisco could help with their private cloud and data center needs, but few appreciated how Cisco could solve t…

Believe it or not, there are some interesting books about IT governance and controls. Before you doze off, let me oversimplify. IT Governance is all about having a system that determines who gets to make decisions. IT Controls provide a framework to make sure things are done a certain way. This is i…

Everywhere you look, the industry is talking about applications. They generate revenue and run your business. Assuring your applications’ performance requires stable data center resources allocated in just the right size to meet demand. How does your business allocate resources?  Most over provision…

What can you do when a growing cloud bill is evidence of your success? Congratulations! You have pushed and pulled to get your IT department to embrace a more agile service delivery model. You have added public cloud as an addition to your on-premises IT service delivery portfolio. But as a result,…

Cloud and software-defined technologies continue to reshape traditional data centers.  Companies turning to cloud to deliver consistent services and processes have found that they can deliver elastic, safe and flexible services at the speed and expectations of their customers.  They have also discov…

Unidentified Flying Objects, or unexplained aerial observations, have been reported throughout history. The term ‘flying saucer’ wasn’t coined until 1947, when an amateur pilot in the US was misquoted in the press when he claimed he saw nine crescent-shaped objects flying through the air like “sauce…