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This is my talk I gave last week at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara. One slide that did not make the deck are the top reasons why people struggle with building private clouds
- Management and operations process.
- Culture
- Funding Model
- Service description and self-service interface
As my deck says, “I got 99 problems, but the tech ain’t one”
Building a “real” cloud involves the following success factors
- Well articulated corporate strategy with phases (crawl, walk, run)
- Engage existing automation teams for skills
- Well-defined, achievable service definitions that are automatable, volume
- Platform that does not lock into a specific hypervisor or cloud API
- A team that is trained (with specific roles) on the solution so that they can extend it in combination with the vendor’s services organization
- Get into production ASAP to drive value and organizational learning
- Union of OOB features and specific configurations for your environment.
- Articulated strategy for integrating with certain existing/deployed IT assets, and using the new “Cloud” as a way to shed IT baggage
- Recognition that your Cloud Management Platform is extensible to other areas in the IT strategy and that partner products may be necessary as well
- Have a suite / framework so you can maintain in the long term. And use external resources
- Need clear articulation of career paths once you start removing “button pushers.” design, operations, not implementation
- Focus on process outcomes, not process activities. Or end up with innefficient processes
Tags: automation, Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud, cloud, cloud connect, Cloud Management, data center, ITaaS, orchestration, unified management
April 11, 2013 at 10:25 am PST
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is a continuation of Brendan’s from Tuesday on my observations from the Geneva Airport Passenger Terminal Expo.
One of the things that strikes me here at the Air Passenger Expo is the proliferation of companies offering some type of passenger flow monitoring solutions. These vary from small startups to large players, and the offerings are a mixture of many technologies: video, cameras, bluetooth, and various types of sensors. The problem most are solving is point-based monitoring, such as how many passengers in the line, how many people are entering, or what is the current wait time in security – all very valuable point information for the Airports to make sure they’re staffed properly and passengers have the best experience.
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Tags: #PTE2013, airport, Cisco, connected mobile experiences, Indoor location, location, location analytics, SITA, wi-fi, wifi, wireless, wireless network, wlan
Cisco Marketing Velocity is an event like no other. It was launched with the idea of being an exclusive and unique event, targeting Cisco partners interested in innovative marketing techniques. Over the last few years, it’s become so much more as top partner executives increasingly see the value of top-flight marketing and engagement as part of their value proposition to customers.
There will always be healthy debate about the best techniques, tips and tricks – especially with how technology is changing the way we communicate. But strong marketing and even stronger customer engagement wins business, builds your brand, and keeps you connected in a world where customers don’t lack for information. You need to do everything you can to stay ahead of paradigm shifts and new competition for your business.
Next week’s Marketing Velocity, which officially kicks off in Cannes, France, on Tuesday, is the seventh such event hosted by Cisco, and we’re very excited to welcome over 200 partners representing 44 countries where Cisco does business.
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Tags: Cannes, Cisco, Cisco partner marketing, Marketing Velocity, partner, Sherri Liebo
The buzz this year at Hannover Messe Fair is around “The Integrated Industry”. One of the key technologies that’s enabling this convergence is unmodified Ethernet being deployed to the factory and plant floor. Cisco’s core strategy for the industrial market is to accelerate the adoption of open standards by partnering with organizations like ODVA. Cisco is a founding member of the ODVA and has enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship for close to 10 years.
Adrienne Meyer, Manager of Member Services at ODVA and Guy Denis, Cisco Business Development Manager -- Connected Industries Group reminisce about the history of the relationship and speak about the importance of evolving and developing open network standards and interoperability for the converged manufacturing IT and plant networks, including security, wireless, IP telephony,power over Ethernet and real-time Ethernet/IP.
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Tags: AP1552, Cisco Industrial Smart Solution, collaboration, Ethernet/IP, Hannover Messe, IE2000, IE3000, Industrial Automation, Internet of Things (IoT), IoT, mobile, ODVA
A couple of weeks ago, I announced a new name and a new mission for the group I lead at Cisco. I’ll do my best to minimize reader exposure to boring administrative details, but the long and the short of it is that the former Cisco Global Government Solutions Group (GGSG) has become the Cisco Threat Response, Intelligence, and Development (TRIAD) organization.
Any organizational name change is only a label placed on more fundamental transformations in missions, strategies, and desired outcomes. While the new organization will continue to serve government customers, the time has come to mobilize the expertise we have built up over the years to help critical infrastructure and enterprise customers strengthen their abilities to deliver IT-based services and value with minimal disturbance from unauthorized sources.
Vectoring the organization’s mission to threat is the key to understanding what TRIAD is all about. Through our work with Cisco customers, observation and analysis of phenomena visible in Cisco and customer networks, and application of innovative thinking about security practices and processes, we see enormous potential for developing and delivering threat-focused approaches to cyber security into products, services, and solutions. Read More »
Tags: Cisco CSO, Cisco Security, Cisco Threat Response-Intelligence-Development, cyber security, emerging threats, GGSG, security, TRIAD
