Hybrid Cloud

It’s 2019! (nearly wrote 18 there!) and the definition between operations engineer and developer has been blurred for longer than we can remember. The early 20xx’s DevOps mentality – beautifully characterized in books such as Gene Kim’s “The Phoenix Project” – have shifted the onus to en…

2018 was an incredible time for cloud. Its impact on customer experiences, business processes and models, and workforce innovations was undeniable. We saw more and more use cases where customers started leveraging multiple clouds to enable innovation than ever before. But the landscape continues to…

In July at Google Cloud Next ’18, we announced the Cisco & Google Cloud Challenge, to give our developers and partners a window into the possibilities for building hybrid cloud applications. Hybrid cloud opens up an entirely new world that combines the edge, the private cloud, and the public clo…

The most difficult thing in any high-tech job is to predict the “tipping point.” Imagine the possibilities if we had the benefit of hindsight. We could all be “IT Historians” with the ability to explain why and how a given technology went through the hype cycle and then eventually took off. But, loo…

In recent years, Kubernetes has risen up in popularity, especially with the developer community. And why do developers love Kubernetes? Because it offers incredible potential for speed, consistency, and flexibility for managing containers. But containers are not all sunshine and roses for enterprise…

I’m excited to report that Cisco HyperFlex has been named as a new leader in the Forrester Wave™ Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q3 2018 report. Climbing to the ranks of a leader validates the hard work that has gone into the development and our continuous delivery of innovations to enhance Hy…

I love it when problem solvers collaborate with other like-minded people to find elegant solutions to important problems. This is exactly how Cisco came together with SAP to realize our common vision to help customers modernize infrastructures without disruption, and take advantage of flexible, inno…

Have you realized that companies’ transformation towards Digitization ironically drive easier consumption models while technology behind it gets often more complicated? When I get a chance to sit on a table to discuss Digitization strategies, it is interesting how most of the times great ideas come…

In the past few years, we have seen a surge of advancement in cloud development. New platforms, developer tools, and cloud services have become available, and developers have responded by building innovative cloud-based applications, services, and businesses. In my opinion, we’ve only unleashed the…