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Co-authored by Brian Paul As one of the top five enterprise software companies, SAP claims that more than 77 percent of the world’s transaction revenues touch SAP systems. The user experience during all these transactions is vitally important to SAP and its customers. With resilient architectures a…

Collaboration Administrators have an unenviable job. Not only do they have to cater to demanding end users who want the best experience, they also have to deal with other functions in a typical IT organization – such as – legal, security and compliance. Often, requirements from those functions are a…

Team, I am very proud to announce the availability of five new models that come to the Cisco Small Business RV Series Portfolio. These bold new models are all purpose-built for the Small Business Channel and customer, supported by the best-in-class service and support team, and by FindIT Network Pla…

Cisco has a strong history of entering data center markets and driving industry transformation. We are continuing that momentum with Cisco HyperFlex Platform for Multicloud. In just over a year since Cisco shipped its first Cisco HyperFlex system, we have achieved #3 in worldwide market share based…

Hello Friends, As you can tell, we enjoy sports. With Justin Thomas winning his first golf major of his career, the PGA Championship, at Quail Hollow. In tennis, the final major of 2017 will be starting shortly at Flushing Meadow, the US Open. We will see if #1 in the world Rafa Nadal (back to #1 si…

Hello all, I thought it would be a good time to provide a quick update on our Cisco RV Series. As amazing as Rafael Nadal is as he took his 10th French Open yesterday at Roland Garros, our new RV340 Series models continue to amaze as they make their way to your local Cisco Partners! Well the two tho…

Co-written with Maciek Konstantynowicz, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Technology & Architecture Office “Holy Sh*t, that’s fast and feature rich” is the most common response we’ve heard from folks that have looked at some new code made available in OpenSource. A few weeks back, the Linux Foundati…

Craig Huitema and Soni Jiandani blogged  about Cisco’s latest ASIC innovations for the Nexus 9K platforms and IDC did a write up and video. In this blog, I’ll expand on one component of the innovations, intelligent buffering. First let’s look at how switching ASICs maybe designed today. Most switchi…

What makes the cloud such an attractive option for enterprises? The cloud empowers IT to act as a broker of business critical IT services. It helps the organization become a more proactive player that can aggregate, integrate, and customize the delivery of cloud services to meet specific business ne…