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July 18, 2018

SECURITY

Moving Towards The Zero Trust Cybersecurity Framework?

The first step should be an investigation and analysis of what your sensitive data is, where it lives, and who accesses it. Then analyze the three Foundational Pillars (see below) to see where you are with the necessary people, process, and technology basics. Most organizations should leverage the r…

June 5, 2018

SECURITY

Why has Forrester’s Zero Trust Cybersecurity Framework become such a hot topic?

Let’s focus on the Zero Trust approach first. If your infrastructure was on the Internet, how would you design your organization’s cybersecurity framework? Authentication to confirm who logs into your infrastructure and multi factor authentication for your Admins? Would you encrypt everything? VPN…

January 10, 2018

NETWORKING

Forrester TEI Survey Documents 156% ROI for CMX

The stock market has had a pretty good run during 2017. Lucky investors have seen returns of more than 15 percent when, historically, anything greater than 8 percent is considered good. So what would you think of a 156-percent return? You wouldn’t be alone if you thought such an astronomical rate is…

November 20, 2017

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

5 Reasons Why Customers Swear by Support Services

If you’re on the fence about whether to purchase (or renew) Cisco Support Services, I’ve got a story for you. I recently met with a group of Cisco Account Managers to better understand what customers are looking for in a protection policy. As the team began to whiteboard all the reasons, I saw a pat…

It’s Time to Rethink the Value of “Support”

With the network serving as the foundation for digital business, maintaining the highest availability, performance, and security are the three end states that matter the most. A new standard of service is required for today’s business critical networks, and Cisco Services is leading the way. But don…

It’s Summertime, So Analysts Turn Up the Heat on Data Virtualization

While everyone else is enjoying summer’s warm days and fun-filled vacations, the analysts at Gartner and Forrester are busy working on their next set of reports covering the data virtualization market and key products in the space such as the Cisco Information Server. What new data virtualization re…

The Role of IT in Digital Transformation: Access to Data is Key

Data Storytellers: Each month we’ll be highlighting experts and advocates to share their data stories, knowledge, and insights into the future of data and analytics. Subscribe to the RSS feed to get the latest updates. In the article, Being a digital leader is not a role, it’s a competency, Ad…

June 17, 2014

DATA CENTER

The Pace of Change Demands Mobile Cloud

With organizations all over the world striving to make lasting connections with both their workforce and customers, mobile communications have fundamentally changed the way business works. And when you factor in the added influence of cloud computing, an exciting collision of technology – know…

February 10, 2014

DATA CENTER

Join the Conversation: Cisco and Forrester Webcast

Cloud is changing the way businesses deploy and manage IT and business services. Industry analysts estimate that by the end of 2014, four out of 10 companies will have deployed a private cloud. But where do you start? Join Cisco and Forrester on February 18th, for this live webcast entitled: C…