IDC

Want 50% More Savings in Your Mobile Network? Try 5G Innovations Now.

We just released a white paper from IDC that shows how new solutions for mobile networks can impact operator costs. Yes, virtualization does make a difference, no doubt. However, IDC broke new ground by analyzing the benefits that 5G innovations can deliver to mobile operators, as well. IDC found th…

March 30, 2016

DATA CENTER

Hyperconverged Infrastructure – Industry Analyst Insights

Industry analyst firm, Gartner, expects the market for hyperconverged infrastructure to reach $5 billion by 2019. We’ve pulled together insights from a variety of analyst firms to explain why many customers are interested in this technology. Customer Benefits Create Demand Hyperconverged infrastruct…

March 18, 2016

CLOUD

Cloud Strategic Choices: Keep Your Options Open

Just as we are beginning to think that the latest cloud news may have become quite predictable, you run into an article that causes you to pause: “Dropbox moves 90% of its data off Amazon AWS in favor of its own private cloud” What I found interesting about the article, as it relates to what I am ab…

March 16, 2016

CLOUD

It All Begins with a Single Step

Cloud has become a strategic component to business strategy for a wide range of businesses because it can deliver a comprehensive set of workloads as automated services.   Additionally, it allows organizations to reach new customers, stay ahead of the competition and transform the way they deliver r…

February 4, 2016

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Live #Ciscochat Feb 23rd: Cyber attacks ahead. Are you ready?

As Mike Riegel pointed out in his recent blog, ‘Financial services is the prime example of an IT-intensive industry.’ Financial institutions rely on consistent technology and innovation to compete and to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Customers put a lot of trust in their financial…

October 12, 2015

DATA CENTER

Composable Infrastructure – Beyond Blade and Rack Servers

Guest Blogger: Jed Scaramella, IDC Research Director, Servers and Datacenters   Over the past several months Cisco, Dell, HP and other vendors have introduced a new category of servers called composable infrastructure. These subsystems are based on disaggregated server architecture. In a new vi…

September 1, 2015

CLOUD

Cloud Adoption Today: A View of Cloud Maturity for IT Organizations

By Robert Mahowald, IDC Program Vice President, SaaS and Cloud Services We recently surveyed more than 3,450 executive-level IT decisionmakers in 17 countries to find out their future plans and current state of cloud adoption. What we discovered is pretty remarkable. According to IDC’s CloudVi…

August 12, 2015

COLLABORATION

Cisco Delivers Improved Lync Interoperability

Did you know that Lync is a fully supported client in Cisco Collaboration Meeting Room (Cisco CMR) meetings. When we say interoperability we mean it. Even when that means supporting proprietary protocols. For instance, to ensure that Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business users can fully experience t…

April 9, 2015

DATA CENTER

Road Trip! Cisco and Microsoft are going on a world tour!

We will be in Dallas, London, New York, Paris, San Jose, and Toronto the next two months. If you are in the area, register and come learn more about transforming your data centers to take advantage of the newest Cisco infrastructure solutions along with Microsoft’s Cloud OS and workloads. Yest…