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Managing Service Provider Megatrends
The pace of change is accelerating, with multiple trends converging to stress service providers’ network and IT infrastructure as we move towards 2019. The average service provider infrastructure must carry a heavier workload in the next few years. Globally, each customer is expected to be carrying…
Cisco SolutionsPlus: Expanding the Market and Accelerating Growth (oh, and Simplification)
As Cisco and our strong channel partner community lead market transitions and enable customers to embrace and capture new opportunities with digital transformation, the solutions we deliver grow progressively complex. While accelerating partner growth is foundational to Cisco’s business model, simp…
How is Cloud Scale Networking helping Service Providers’ Central Office transformation?
Cloud Scale Networking software innovations are the outcome of a partnership with some leading innovators to utilize data center ‘DevOps’ principles and techniques to offer new levels of agility, efficiency, and simplicity. Key benefits include: Large-scale automation for provisioning and network c…
Ethernet VPN – What’s the big deal about it?
Co-authored with Ali Sajassi, Distinguished Engineer, Engineering. Ethernet VPN (EVPN) may be considered by some as the new kid on the block in VPN protocols. It is dubbed as next-generation all-in-one VPN technology that provides a wide of range of services such as E-LAN, E-Line, E-TREE, L3VPN, DC…
Cisco@MWC: New Capabilities, Services & Customers, Setting the Foundation for 5G
Global leaders in wireless are here in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, the gathering place for top-of-mind topics like architecting and building cloud-based service and IoT offerings – all while positioning for the inevitable shift to 5G. Cisco is here, showing off new technologies and solution…
How To Digitize: Simplify First
A common question I receive in my role as chief digital officer (CDO) is, “Where do I begin my digitization journey?” This is key—both because it is hard to know where to start among a sea of potential areas to transform and because setting out in the wrong direction can hurt your competitive positi…
Software Innovations for Cloud Scale Networking
Back in 2011, web pioneer Marc Andreessen wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, entitled “Why software is eating the world”. I couldn’t agree more! First, let’s have a look at what’s going on in the industry at large. Every company in every vertical industry is facing unprecedented competitive…
Part 2: Why not Initiate a “Save to Invest” Program for your Data Center?
Two weeks ago, in my previous blog, I invited you to consider ways in which you could initiate a “Save to Invest” program for your data center. That is, how can you save money from your current data center spend, in order to re-invest it into currently un- or -under-funded areas of your…