Hybrid Cloud

I continue to bet on Cloud Computing (I am not referring to the horse that won the Preakness Stakes ahead of ‘Classic Empire’) but as I place that bet … my assumption … is that the various major industry players will continue to work together in a meaningful way toward the progressive standardizatio…

The recent CNCF CloudNative 2017 conference in Berlin played host to the crème de la crème of IT, niche container-focused software vendors, and integrators. All of them came equipped with their most switched-on engineers and marketers (intentionally leaving the usual marketing glaze behind). I was t…

What comes to mind when you hear the term “digital transformation”? Do you get excited about the possibilities? Impatient for the budget to pursue your vision? Or do you have a more muted response? Something between annoyance at the thought that you need to do research on the topic, and anxiety that…

A loaded question? Perhaps. But in today’s digital landscape it is one that many companies are trying to answer. Regardless of industry, brands that wish to remain competitive and offer optimized services and more engaging customer experiences are seeking digital flexibility. Many have turned to clo…

As the saying goes, time flies when you’re having fun. And there probably isn’t a better phrase to sum up our experience since Cisco acquired CliQr and we became the Cisco CloudCenter team just one short year ago. A Quick Look Back Time has moved quickly—and so have we. While many acquisitions kick-…

On the heels of announcing the strategic alliance with Docker, today at DockerCon, Cisco announced that we are joining Docker in the Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA) program. MTA is a turnkey program consisting of products and consulting services from Docker and Cisco. Most organizations str…

Pressure to transform is coming from every direction:  customers, competitors, heads of departments and the C-suite.  Convert high cost manual services to lower cost automated ones.  Create development environments or place applications into multiple clouds.  Change the way employees and customers i…

Digital transformation has created a sense of urgency to adopt “as a service” business models, such as hybrid cloud.  Hybrid cloud delivers speed and agility.  Users are empowered to deploy workloads across multiple cloud platforms.  Your business stays compliant and safe.  Business and…

“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” -M.C. Escher “Alexa, turn on Apple TV” “Alexa, turn on dining room lights” “Alexa, play classical playlist from Spotify” “Alexa, set the living room to 70 degrees” Our household is definitely “Alexa”-enabled, but behind the scenes, of course, there’…