hybrid it

September 14, 2016

DATA CENTER

Deploying application tiers across both data center and cloud

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…

August 22, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco ACI and Apprenda PaaS Integration Goes to Production

“No-Ops” for Developers and “No-Dev” for IT Ops   Analysts agree that IT is in the midst of a major transformation. Based on the results of latest Gartner enterprise IT buying behavior survey, the majority of spending is going towards modernizing, functionally expanding or substituting long-sta…

July 20, 2016

DATA CENTER

Up Close with Cisco CloudCenter (CliQr)

Cloud platforms are increasingly a viable option for a growing set of enterprise applications and workloads.   Application teams are uncompromising in their desire to build and deploy new applications into public cloud environments that deliver speed and choice. Industry analysts tell us that almost…

July 6, 2016

CLOUD

Red Hat Summit 2016: What You May Have Missed

In case you missed the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, it was most certainly an event well-worth attending …. there was even a wedding! Yes, that is not a typo. During the second day general session, Red Hat held an actual wedding ceremony. If you needed any tangible sign to convince yourself of th…

June 28, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco CloudCenter Achieves Certified Integration with ServiceNow

IT Service Management meets Hybrid IT Borrowing the signature song from the Lego Movie for an enterprise service management blog post is a stretch, but I couldn’t resist. If you’ve seen the Lego Movie you’ll know that the song is extremely catchy, you can’t stop singing “Everything is awesome,…

June 14, 2016

DATA CENTER

Accelerate Hybrid IT Deployments with Cisco Data Center Innovations

Cloud is now a fundamental part of IT landscapes.  Enterprise and IT executives deal with large numbers of applications that are being versioned faster than ever before. Running IT is increasingly challenged to support line-of-business needs. To learn how to simplify application lifecycle management…

June 1, 2016

CLOUD

Meeting the Challenge of Reselling Cloud Services

Today’s Guest Blog comes to us courtesy of Steve Vicinanza, CEO of Cirrity. As a reseller, your customers depend on you to fully qualify and carefully select the products and services you recommend. This is especially true when you resell cloud computing services, which establish a dependency betwee…

April 21, 2016

DATA CENTER

Hybrid IT: It’s a Strategy Not Something You Build

What do you think when you hear Hybrid IT?   Does your mind go to a 3rd kind of not quite private, not quite public cloud that your team needs to build? Fear not.  Hybrid IT is not another type of cloud but rather a strategy for your organization to quickly and cost-effectively deploy technology acr…

September 16, 2015

GOVERNMENT

Does Fast IT work in Government? It sure does: check out the case studies.

In my previous post, I explained how CIOs are reinventing the mission and role of the IT department in order to support the Digital Transformation of their organisation. And that adopting a Fast IT model is less about technology and more about progressive cultural and process changes. But is this re…