virtualization

If you are a fan of Greek mythology, then you know that Cerberus was the three-headed dog that guarded the gates of Hades.  This monster kept the dead from escaping.  When you are on a journey to NFV transformation, sometimes you may feel you cannot escape from your own personal Hades.  As my collea…

Written by Mike Brennan – @CiscoVDIguy – Product Manager, Desktop Virtualization and Graphics In my role at Cisco, I am fortunate to have the opportunity to meet our Customers who do absolutely amazing things with Cisco UCS and our partners’ technologies.  One shining example is CannonDesign,…

It is generally accepted that revenues for mobile service providers are trending flat to down. A recent ARPU report from Informa provides this picture in detail by country. Some mobile service providers have acquired content services as a way to boost this trend, but they admit that this too will ev…

Today’s data centers are complex in nature. Reduced agility, system outages, security threats, data storage migration, lost or misplaced data add to this complexity. Also the adoption of the cloud services is increasing and many platforms and applications continue to co-exist, thus creating a manage…

A year ago, I introduced our Enterprise NFV solution. This year at CiscoLive Berlin (#CLEUR), we announced solutions that extend virtualization beyond the branch, across the entire enterprise network and to the cloud. Every day, we see how digital transformation is changing the way we work, live, pl…

As more and more service providers and enterprises invest in Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the fast-evolving and maturing NFV technology poses special challenges for those who are looking to not only perform a proof-of-concept, but also operationalize their NFV initiative, and ultimately of…

The excitement, the energy, the sore feet once again engulfed us in the beautiful city of Barcelona for arguably the greatest show on Earth – Mobile World Congress.  Well, for those of us in networking, anyway. The theme for Mobile World Congress 2017 is: The Next Element. Upon reading “The Next Ele…

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 can you take advantage of new network virtualization and security innovations to help accelerate digital transformation in your organization? As I flew from San Francisco to Berlin, Germany this week to attend our annual CiscoLive Europe (#CLEUR), I turned on my infotainment system to look at th…