Public Cloud

January 24, 2020

CLOUD

Your cloud bill is probably too high, and you should probably care

According to Gartner, the Public Cloud market size is projected to be approximately $289.1B in 2021, with $61.9B of that amount spent on IaaS and $27.5B of this amount spent on PaaS. RightScale predicts 35% of the cloud spend is being wasted, i.e. not being used to create actual value.  So, when it…

Automation and Orchestration at Cisco Live – US

With Cisco Live in San Diego fast approaching next week, we are in plate spinning mode, but I did want to take moment to call out the “must see” demos and sessions related to network automation and orchestration. Sessions Carl Moberg & Kevin Corbin will be talking about how to mesh…

June 6, 2019

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Unleash the Potential of Your Multicloud Strategy

It wasn’t that long ago that many people thought moving everything to the cloud would be simple and cost-effective – and cloud would somehow make everything easier. The reality is that cloud was anything but simple. Balancing the need to manage costs with enabling speed and business agility became a…

April 9, 2019

DATA CENTER

ACI Anywhere Now Extending From On-Premises to AWS Cloud

Cisco is pleased to announce availability of a brand-new solution, Cisco Cloud ACI on AWS. This solution automates management of end-to-end connectivity and enforcement of consistent network security policies for applications running in on-prem data centers and AWS public cloud regions. Decentralize…

October 1, 2018

CLOUD

The Impact of “Limitless” in Multicloud IT

According to recent studies like Cisco Global Cloud Index, 94% of all workloads will be processed by Private & Public Cloud Data Centers by 2021, so I guess that adopting the Cloud is not a matter of if, but a matter of when. Once we accept it and understand the benefits, the quest usually begin…

July 25, 2018

CLOUD

It’s Time to Vote for OpenStack Summit Speakers!

Have you been to the OpenStack Summit lately? If you haven’t, I’ll let you in on a not-at-all-closely-guarded secret: It’s not just about OpenStack anymore. Shoot, you can probably argue that it’s not even primarily about OpenStack anymore. It’s about containers and aut…

June 6, 2018

CLOUD

Top 7 Multicloud Initiatives – Delivering on the Multicloud Promise

According to IDC, by 2021, enterprises’ spending on cloud services and cloud-enabling hardware, software, and services will more than double to over $530 billion, leveraging a diversifying cloud environment that is 20% at the edge, more than 15% specialized (non-x86) compute, and more than 90%…

March 13, 2018

CLOUD

How a Multicloud World is Changing the WAN

Organizations worldwide are on an irreversible march towards embracing multiple clouds, drawn by the greater agility and flexibility, the specific functionality each one offers, as well as improved efficiencies and the ability to adapt to the fast-moving digital way of doing business. Numbers from I…

February 16, 2018

CLOUD

Your Guide To The Multicloud World, Part 2

The multicloud era is here. There is no denying that businesses large and small are accelerating the pace of moving applications and data to not only private and public clouds, but multiple clouds. It’s a strategy that holds a lot of promise but is not an easy one to pull off, in either the move to…