Professional Services
Business Critical Security
Endpoint. Cloud. IoT Devices. Email. Network. All of it needs to be secure, but where do you start? Once you have visibility out to your endpoints, the perimeter shifts: when you think you know all the devices connecting to your network, you discover new SaaS-based applications in use. You train yo…
The #1 Reason to Choose your NFV and SDN Partner
Last year, in order to ensure we were delivering world class professional services for NFV and SDN to our service provider customers, we invested a not insubstantial sum from our services development budget in a market research survey, conducted independently by Ovum, to understand customer needs in…
Go Slow to Go Fast: Why Cisco Services Invests More Up Front
There are 2 questions I am asked from time to time: The first is related to my job – “OK I understand what’s involved in product development, but why do ‘service development’? Don’t you just have really smart people turn up and do their [professional services] ‘stuff’?” The second is, quit…
Step Up to a New Standard in Threat Defense
The 135 Spanish Steps are perhaps one of the most popular tourist attractions in Rome—and this in a city where your alternatives include stunning options like visiting the Vatican, the Colosseum or the Trevi Fountain. And yet, a visitor to the Spanish Steps today is first—and ahead of any chance to…
Cisco Speaks Your Language: Business Outcomes
Correction: This content has been adjusted to reflect appropriate approvals for use of customer names outside of Cisco. As technological change occurs at a faster and faster pace, a new language is spreading across the business world. For CIO and line-of-business executives, it’s no longer enough to…
Cisco Partner Weekly Rewind – November 22, 2013
Every Friday, we’ll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories of the week, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here’s what you might have missed this week: Off the Top As the Vice President of Worldwide Services Partn…
Is Your Data Center Ready for ACI Transformation?
Disruptive technologies have become more frequent than ever before, making business agility and the ability to adapt key competitive differentiators. Every day I speak with IT executives who are asking how Cisco can help them respond to new requirements across their physical, virtual, and cloud-bas…
With Targeted Professional Services, Service Providers Can Tap Small and Medium-Sized Business’s Demand for Cloud
By Uwe Lambrette and Evgenia Ryabchikova, IBSG Service Provider Cloud is no longer a nascent market. The explosive growth of public-cloud providers —coupled with the relevance of the network in the delivery of cloud and IT services — has led many service providers (SPs) to treat this game-changing t…