multicloud

March 13, 2019

DATA CENTER

Realities of the Modern Datacenter

Guest blogger: Matt Eastwood, IDC Matt is Senior Vice President of IDC’s enterprise, datacenter, cloud infrastructure and developer research groups. His responsibilities include managing market analysis, tracking, forecasting and consulting for enterprise computing, storage, networking, systems in…

March 11, 2019

CLOUD

The Business Benefit behind ACI and Multicloud Networking

I had the chance to spend some time with some of our customers at Cisco Live Melbourne this past week where they asked me about ways to justify the migration to a Software-Defined-Network approach with ACI, by providing hard evidence that this is a game-changer for any industry. I joked with them (s…

February 28, 2019

CLOUD

Why Your Business Needs a New and Simpler Multicloud Network

Businesses rely on IT to differentiate in any industry by providing better services and user experiences in today’s Digital World. The network has evolved, and it plays a key role in this journey. I often get asked about my top recommendations when building Enterprise Data Center Networks and I want…

February 20, 2019

NETWORKING

New Perspectives on Software-Defined WAN

The integration of Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) with cloud management functionality into the Cisco family of routers in 2018 excited many of our customers. Instantly over a million installed Cisco ISR and ASR routers could be upgraded to become SD-WAN capable, improving application…

January 29, 2019

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Raising the Bar on Multicloud Management

In my last blog post, I talked about how we are seeing more and more use cases where customers are using multiple clouds to build the next generation of digital experiences. It’s clear to me that many of these cloud use cases involve successfully spanning across multiple environments on and off-prem…

January 29, 2019

CLOUD

Cisco CloudCenter Suite: Your Multicloud Management Champion

In a few days, over one hundred million viewers will experience the phenomenon known as the Super Bowl. As fans of championship sporting events like the Super Bowl or, for my friends outside of the US, the World Cup, we expect a gratifying experience during these events and are solely focused on our…

January 28, 2019

DEVELOPER

Enabling App Developers in a Multi-cloud World – Part 1

It’s 2019! (nearly wrote 18 there!) and the definition between operations engineer and developer has been blurred for longer than we can remember. The early 20xx’s DevOps mentality – beautifully characterized in books such as Gene Kim’s “The Phoenix Project” – have shifted the onus to en…

January 25, 2019

CLOUD

AIOps & the Future of Performance Monitoring

Two years ago, Cisco announced the intent to acquire AppDynamics, and to celebrate, we hosted a one-of-a-kind virtual launch even on January 23rd. At AppDynamics Transform, David Wadhwani, CEO of AppDynamics, shared what’s next for AppDynamics and Cisco. Anuj Kapur, SVP & Chief Strategy Of…

January 24, 2019

DATA CENTER

Power your AI and modern applications with FlexPod

As enterprises work towards digital transformation and operational efficiency, they need technology that can adapt to dramatic shifts across the organization and keep up with the ever-increasing demands of modern workloads and applications. Guest Blogger: Siva Sivakumar, Senior Director, UCS Soluti…