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Improve Office 365 Connectivity with Cisco SD-WAN
Posted on behalf of contributing author: Robin James Robin James is a Product Manager at Cisco Systems Inc., focusing on WAN solutions for enterprise networks. In his role, he is responsible for driving customer adoption of Cisco’s SD-WAN solution and leading technical discussions with enterpr…
Cisco at AWS Summit Anaheim – Better Together…Again!
One more date, many new learnings from #AWSSummits. This time I’ll talk about AWS Summit in Anaheim. If you read my previous blog you’ll see that Cisco has taken a strong position on addressing the typical challenges that relate to adopting public cloud into your IT environment. These challenges are…
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%…
Collaboration at #CLUS, Final Wrap: “Ahh, the Cloud” and Endangered Chickens
It definitely took the long weekend to recover from the energy of Cisco Live. From the keynotes to the innovation talks to the DevNet Zone and the show floor, I definitely got my convention center mileage numbers. I’m probably due for an oil change. The good news is that some of those footsteps are…
Cisco Spark Board on Demand
I pay for Netflix every month, along with almost 100 million other binge-watchers. I also pay monthly for Spotify, Amazon Prime, Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Drive. My life-as-a-service is incredibly convenient, and that’s just for cloud-based services. I have friends that pay monthly for their iPhon…
The Evolution and Growing Relevance of Managed Services in a Cloud Computing World
Defining Managed Services and Cloud Computing Managed Services is traditionally understood to be the practice of having a third party Service Provider – also known as a Managed Services Provider (MSP), take over the IT operations management (ITOM) responsibilities and functions from an enterp…
Cisco ACI and Apprenda PaaS Integration Goes to Production
“No-Ops” for Developers and “No-Dev” for IT Ops Analysts agree that IT is in the midst of a major transformation. Based on the results of latest Gartner enterprise IT buying behavior survey, the majority of spending is going towards modernizing, functionally expanding or substituting long-sta…
Gartner Report Says Shadow IT Will Result in 1/3 of Security Breaches
Last week, Gartner published their Top 10 cloud security predictions for 2016. They predict that “by 2020, one third of successful attacks experienced by enterprises will be on their shadow IT resources.” As Gartner rightly points out, the reality is your business is engaging with shadow IT resource…
Enterprise cloud services are changing. Are you ready to adapt?
Forget trying to offer cost savings, you need to meet your customers where they are today, not where they were two years ago. And that means helping them solve a wider range of business problems. Just a few years ago, cloud services were all about dollars and cents. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS…
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