Public Cloud

September 21, 2016

CLOUD

Cloud Going Mainstream: “Getting Ready for the Second Wave” of Cloud Value

By Robert Mahowald, IDC Group Vice President IDC recently surveyed more than 6,159 executive-level IT and LOB decision makers in 31 countries to find out their future plans and current state of cloud adoption. What we discovered is pretty remarkable. According to IDC’s CloudView Survey 2016, 78% of…

July 11, 2016

CLOUD

Managed Cloud: Your Best Cloud Native Choice

Today, organizations have many choices in how they architect their data centers and network. Innovative companies are increasingly taking a bimodal approach to IT. A bimodal approach combines Mode 1—Traditional IT focused on “doing IT right” and optimizing price-for-performance with Mode 2—Agile IT…

June 28, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco CloudCenter Achieves Certified Integration with ServiceNow

IT Service Management meets Hybrid IT Borrowing the signature song from the Lego Movie for an enterprise service management blog post is a stretch, but I couldn’t resist. If you’ve seen the Lego Movie you’ll know that the song is extremely catchy, you can’t stop singing “Everything is awesome,…

June 1, 2016

CLOUD

Meeting the Challenge of Reselling Cloud Services

Today’s Guest Blog comes to us courtesy of Steve Vicinanza, CEO of Cirrity. As a reseller, your customers depend on you to fully qualify and carefully select the products and services you recommend. This is especially true when you resell cloud computing services, which establish a dependency betwee…

May 18, 2016

CLOUD

Cloud: The Great Equalizer

IT is at the foundation of many of today’s businesses and organizations. When done right, IT can vitalize a business’ day-to-day operations from the inside. Employees can achieve more with less, bringing greater value to your customer base. Certainly, doing IT right can be complicated. Beyond perfor…

April 27, 2016

CLOUD

The Power of Cooperation and Imagination

Lew Tucker delivered a keynote at the OpenStack Summit yesterday. Which isn’t actually all that unusual. He’s been up to his neck in OpenStack for quite some time, leading cloud efforts at Cisco, and serving as Vice Chairman of the OpenStack Foundation. Lew spoke yesterday, and for me, the two most…

April 18, 2016

CLOUD

Cisco Has Plenty In Store For You at the OpenStack Summit in Austin

The upcoming OpenStack Summit will be Cisco’s first Headline sponsorship at this semi-annual gathering of the OpenStack community…and it’s a good thing we’re headed to Austin because we need a Texas-sized venue to share everything. The Cisco booth (C11) at the OpenStack Summit is going to be filled…

March 25, 2016

CLOUD

Hybrid Cloud Is Growing … But Requires Workload Portability, Security, and Policy Enablement

The variety of interpretations about what hybrid cloud is, should be or could be continues to evolve …. This is why for quite some time whenever hybrid cloud comes up I have tried to discuss hybrid cloud in very practical terms. The most popular interpretations of hybrid cloud typically fall across…

March 18, 2016

CLOUD

Cloud Strategic Choices: Keep Your Options Open

Just as we are beginning to think that the latest cloud news may have become quite predictable, you run into an article that causes you to pause: “Dropbox moves 90% of its data off Amazon AWS in favor of its own private cloud” What I found interesting about the article, as it relates to what I am ab…