management

December 3, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco: Your Strategic Cloud Partner

Cisco’s cloud software is a hot topic.  First Cisco UCS Director was voted the SVC award winner for best virtualization management software.  Then Forrester released a new Private Cloud Wave and both Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (IAC) and UCS Director combined garnered Cisco the high…

August 7, 2013

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged S3|Ep7: NetScaler and the Application Driven Data Center

In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, we send the marketer in to chat with the technologist. Steve Shah (@steveshah) quizzes Nisarg Shah (@nisargcisco) around the use cases for NetScaler including load balancing in the Application Driven Data Center. Less talk, more TLAs! All will be…

June 19, 2013

INSIDE CISCO IT

Managing a Massive Voice Infrastructure with Cisco Prime Collaboration

Cisco IT monitors and manages a huge voice infrastructure, with over 200,000 UC endpoints, and the Cisco Prime Collaboration solution helps us do this work efficiently. For example, a common problem for my team is identifying which devices are provisioned in the Cisco Unified Communications Manager…

May 30, 2013

NETWORKING

Get Converged User Access Management

Cisco Prime Infrastructure is a network management tool that helps accelerate the rollout of new services. It also provides highly secure access and management of mobile devices, making bring- your-own-device (BYOD) access a reality for corporate IT. Tightly coupling client awareness with applicatio…

May 29, 2013

INSIDE CISCO IT

Cisco Prime Collaboration in Cisco IT Video Operation

Cisco Prime Collaboration (CPC) is based on years of partnership and collaboration between Cisco IT and the Cisco Network Management Technology Group (NMTG). Today CPC is a critical part of our internal video operations process, with useful capabilities like –       Proactive monitoring and al…

May 12, 2013

NETWORKING

Have You Registered for Centralize Policy, Control and Enforcement May 15th?

Activate the IT Transformation with Unified Access: Part 4 –  Centralized Policy, Control, and Enforcement  Wednesday, May 15, 2013  10am-11am PDT     |       Register Now Don’t miss the next in line of our five-part Unified Access Webinar Series  on May 15th to hear how organizations in…

May 9, 2013

NETWORKING

See How Organizations Use Cisco ISE to Centralize Policy and Secure Access

Activate the IT Transformation with Unified Access: Part 4 –  Centralized Policy, Control, and Enforcement  Wednesday, May 15, 2013  10am-11am PDT     |       Register Now With more users and devices being added to your network every day, unified access and central policy control have become c…

April 8, 2013

NETWORKING

Listen Up! Spotlight on NSA Show & Cisco Podcast Series

As some of you already know, we’ve teamed up with the popular wireless networking podcast “No Strings Attached” to release a mobility podcast series. We’ve recorded 6 podcasts, and counting! Enhancing Wireless with the MSE and WSSI (Listen to Podcast) For more on MSE For more on WSSI M…

March 27, 2013

DATA CENTER

Unlock Your Converged Infrastructure’s Potential

Successful IT managers today and in the future need to quickly adapt to changing business strategies. But how does IT increase efficiency, support more applications and provide additional services with flat or decreasing IT budgets? In my previous blog, I discussed how Cisco, EMC, NetApp, and VCE in…