Viptela

Your distributed office wide area networks are about to get disrupted—in a good way. Software-defined WANs are upgrading application performance to enable people in branch offices, stores, and clinics to operate at peak efficiency. But before today, many organization needed to upgrade their hardware…

… is actually sweeter in this case. The well-regarded managed service creation and delivery platform formerly known as Cisco Virtual Managed Services (VMS) is now the Cisco Managed Services Accelerator (MSX). As Cisco’s key strategic managed services platform for service providers, we feel this new…

Multinational, global enterprise growth continues to rise, and these businesses require reliable, agile, and seamless connectivity with end-to-end global SLAs. Many of the global companies we talk to are banks, manufacturers, and insurance companies that have a growing international presence or cust…

Cisco’s Innovation Strategy In this episode of #TheGrubbCast, I set the stage by talking about Cisco’s Five-Way Strategy for innovation – Build, Buy, Partner, Invest, Co-Develop. Build refers to Cisco’s 19,000+ engineers and $6.3B investment in Research & Development – but of course no on…

2017 was a pivotal year for enterprise networking. In 2016, the internet crossed a milestone threshold when it reached an annual run rate of one Zettabytes, with the majority on mobile devices. As the Zettabyte era dawned, networking needed to be brought up to speed. And this year, I am proud to say…

SD-WAN has blown past all of our 2017 expectations. It has become one of the hottest trends in networking, and forecasts are increasing every quarter with IDC predicting the size of the SD-WAN market to be $8.05B by 2021. My colleagues keep asking me, “Where do we go from here?” Will the forecasts c…

    The Software-Defined Networking Movement Cisco has been leading the charge into enterprise software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) with its industry-leading Intelligent WAN (IWAN) solution. A complementary Meraki-based solution addresses the SD-WAN needs of the smaller enterprise a…

In this era of Digitization, cloud and IoT, the needs of the enterprise continue to evolve and Cisco’s recent launch of intent-based networking technologies showed the world that we continue to drive innovation in enterprise networking. In this new era of networking one of the technologies that serv…

Visualize the last puzzle you worked on. Now, remember how good it felt when you snapped a key piece into place. The fit was snug, it completed a strategic section, and opened up new areas to be assembled. This is how I feel about Cisco’s plan to acquire Viptela—a company that delivers cloud-based S…