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IT Ops at the speed of Dev: Finding Balance in your Automation Strategy
Over the past few years, we have seen the rapid growth and maturity of tools and platforms that enable operations teams and software developers to deliver important outcomes for their businesses. From the explosive growth of services in the public cloud, to a plethora of open source automation…
The “Containers Without Locks” Approach
We have been talking a lot about containers, Kubernetes, and open source here at Cisco. And we are not the only ones. The entire IT industry is now trying to compete on the “Kubernetes and open-source control plane” battlefield. This relates to a more general mindset shift from investing in siloed t…
The Business Benefit behind ACI and Multicloud Networking
I had the chance to spend some time with some of our customers at Cisco Live Melbourne this past week where they asked me about ways to justify the migration to a Software-Defined-Network approach with ACI, by providing hard evidence that this is a game-changer for any industry. I joked with them (s…
Cisco CloudCenter Suite: Your Multicloud Management Champion
In a few days, over one hundred million viewers will experience the phenomenon known as the Super Bowl. As fans of championship sporting events like the Super Bowl or, for my friends outside of the US, the World Cup, we expect a gratifying experience during these events and are solely focused on our…
Cloud Unfiltered, Episode 59: Introducing StarlingX, with Glenn Seiler
Do you know what StarlingX is? Yeah we didn’t either. But it was just announced at the OpenStack Summit in Berlin, and there seemed to be quite a bit of hoopla around it, so we decided to hunt down someone from the project and invite them to the show so we could get to the bottom of all the exciteme…
IBM and RedHat Happily Ever After. What Does This Mean for Cisco and VMware Multicloud Offers?
As per the recent announcement, IBM is acquiring Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion. This is another one in a row of deals I did not expect to happen: – Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems – Microsoft acquired GitHub – Dell acquired VMware This deal is still subject to shareholder…
Enabling Enterprise-Grade Hybrid Cloud Data Processing with SAP and Cisco – Part 1
The journey towards the intelligent enterprise When talking about modern data processing in the digital economy, data is often regarded as the new oil. Enterprise companies are already competing in a race for the best mining, extraction and processing technologies to gain better insights into their…