multi-cloud

With Cisco’s Partner Summit 2019 wrapped up, and the evolution of Cisco Customer Experience in full swing, Cisco partners are listening closely as they decide what and how to invest as they grow their Cisco practice. Specifically, on the data center and cloud front, partners are dealing with m…

Part 1 of 2 Arthur C. Clarke’s famous witticism that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” could easily apply to the plethora of applications that are at our fingertips. By touching an icon on a piece of glass you can summon a ride, order a meal, show the wor…

How Bexar County built a better data center with Cisco Nearly two million people call Bexar County, Texas home—making it one of the largest counties in the U.S. As you can imagine, it’s a place that produces and hosts a lot of data. And Bexar County IT must keep their network and applications runnin…

Retail is arguably the most dynamic industry out there. Changing routes to market, increasingly mobile shoppers and the direct connection even between manufacturers and the end consumer means that an agile IT platform is critical. And what better way for retailers to stay on their toes, than with a…

It is no secret that retailers are moving to a cloud/multi-cloud environment. This data migration is important, as it enables retailers to continually deploy the digital solutions that best serve customers and associates, while improving operations. Not to mention, data centers can get costly to hou…

Enterprises are busy implementing SD-WAN to provide cost-effective, secure, and application-aware connectivity to multiple cloud platforms for branches and remote offices. The results are clear: a distributed workforce obtains superior Quality of Experience (QoE) for multi-cloud and SaaS application…

Kubernetes – 100% Upstream, Simple, Fast, Supported You may have seen – over here at Cisco we’ve just released a new Cisco Container Platform (CCP) together with learning labs to learn the basics of CCP and its API. CCP aims to take away the pain from deploying and maintaining your container platfor…

I touched on the problem of Shadow IT in the expanding world of IoT in a previous blog A Security Fabric for IoT. But there is another ecosystem of applications and hardware besides IoT devices to manage in the realm of Shadow IT. From the old days of departments buying OTS packaged software for spe…

Please join me in welcoming Vijoy Pandey as our new Service Provider CTO.    Vijoy comes to us from Google where he headed engineering for their Data Center, Cloud and WAN networks, developing software systems for intent-driven automation, diagnostic telemetry, data analytics and application-level a…