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For organizations that are adopting DevOps practices and modern cloud capabilities to accelerate innovation and gain competitive advantage, one of the biggest challenges is maintaining common and consistent environments through an application’s lifecycle from development through to deployment. Conta…

In an increasingly competitive environment, enterprises are under intense pressure to do more and to do it faster, with less. That’s why the ability to rapidly deliver new experiences to customers and employees through applications is an important differentiator in a growing number of industries. Ap…

I am not a big Starbucks fan but let us face it, it’s nice to go there, sit down and have a coffee while you work. The sound, the ambiance or let us say the customer experience it’s good. When you are in a hurry and especially if you are in a business area, the lines get very long and on a Monday mo…

Have you ever wondered why some organizations are more successful in delivering services and applications with serious resource constraints to its every increasing distributed workforce? Chances are the IT teams are using some variation of cloud computing to solve these and other modern day IT chall…

On a recent trip to Silicon Valley, I stayed at a Marriott near the office. Although it was my first time at this particular hotel, I generally knew what to expect; comforts of the room, consistency of friendly staff, pervasive wireless internet access, and a simple bottle of water upon arrival, hav…

By Giovanna Carofiglio, Cisco Distinguished Engineer 3 By 2020, 82% of all IP traffic will be video and two-thirds of all Internet traffic will be generated from wireless and mobile devices, according to Cisco VNI forecast. Video services are evolving (UHD 4K-8K video, Virtual/Augmented Reality) and…

By Giovanna Carofiglio, Distinguished Engineer Today we announce three important milestones in the path of deployment of Information-Centric Networking technology in 5G mobile networks. Let’s start by explaining the concepts behind Information-Centric Networking (ICN). It is an approach to evolve th…

So you want to deploy your database tier in the data center with an ACI managed network, and app server and web tiers in the public IaaS cloud? No problem. As applications are getting more complex, IT is getting more savvy about where individual tiers are deployed. With Cisco CloudCenter, you can au…

Last week’s Enterprise Connect event was an eye-opening experience from many perspectives. A tour of the exhibit area seemed like a real-time stroll through the history of contact center technology. Several traditional contact-center providers were present, but some former industry powerhouses were…