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January 14, 2020

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Making the impossible possible? That’s how we roll at Cisco.

“Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded.” Powerful words from the great scientist Stephen Hawking, reflecting on a moment in time which changed everything; when mankind began to talk and to listen, evolving into cog…

February 3, 2016

DATA CENTER

The Most Boring Service We offer … And how to bring down a data center in one easy snip!

I do enjoy the (sometimes irreverent!) perspectives of some articles on data center in the UK publication “The Register“, and the story of how a data center change went wrong made me laugh, cringe and cry at the same time – the change being when an electrician cut the wrong wire an…

January 20, 2016

NETWORKING

The Wizard of nOZ (Part 1)

I am going to show you how to discover one of the best kept secrets within Cisco’s portfolio.  A service that when our customers become aware of it, it becomes a must-have for their environments! There is no man behind the curtain, pulling strings, making various noises and effects like the famous m…

May 15, 2013

NETWORKING

Steps to Optimizing Your Network – Design & Hardware Strategy

In my last post, I discussed the importance of a strong network foundation.  Let’s get a little deeper into this now. The strategies depicted in the diagram below have been developed over nearly two decades of Cisco Services experience in the field.  These outline what MUST be addressed in ord…

Deploying onePK Applications

This post expands on my previous posts about what makes onePK better, and the onePK software architecture. Here I focus on the application deployment options onePK makes available. The deployment options are summarized in the diagram below. Process hosting means that the onePK application is runnin…