#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists hosted by Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week we’re talking about ACI Updates with Cisco Product Management Director, Thomas Scheibe.
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See a list of all #CiscoChampion Radio podcasts HERE. Continue reading “#CiscoChampion Radio S1|Ep18 ACI Updates”
Internet traffic in Australia is set to grow 3-fold from 2013 to 2017 according to the latest data from Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI). However, if we “look behind the curtain” there is more to this story beyond just greater bandwidth demand as both consumers and enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud-based services. This move to the cloud provides a new opportunity for traditional service providers since they can uniquely combine network infrastructure and data center capacity to deliver premium cloud services with an SLA guarantee. Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, Telstra, has established itself as a trusted provider of cloud services, such as collaboration and management applications, to customers. They’re achieving this with a new architectural approach that enables a next generation Internet experience combining networks, data centers and applications together while ensuring resiliency, low-latency performance, and programmability.
Telstra recently announced Continue reading “Telstra Building the Foundation for Premium Cloud Services”
What do Walt Disney World, The Matrix, and Big Ben have in common? On the surface they do not share much. Each of these is special because everything that makes them tick, pun intended, are hidden from view of the consumers. We all intuitively know there is a great deal of complexity behind the scenes, but it is intentionally hidden from the users. This is the behavior consumers of cloud-based services also expect, even in the datacenter.
Today vendors are working hard to make their products and services more consumable in a nearly seamless fashion. They are accomplishing this by adding abstract control layers, open APIs with robust development kits, and enabling cross platform integrations. The recognition is that in today’s virtualized datacenter and the Internet of everything no technology is an island any longer. Efforts have to be made to make interoperability a priority in order to provide the polished experience that consumers have grown to expect. The question being answered is ‘Why doesn’t X communicate with Y?’ Continue reading “Technology Behind the Surface”
Partnering with Manufacturing.net, Cisco recently hosted Part II of a webcast series on ‘The Internet of Things ’ for Manufacturing. The content was very well received as it covered some key opportunities in Manufacturing today and how IoT technologies are helping enable an industrial renaissance in many markets today. The first webcast was joined by Steelcase’s CIO, Bob Krestakos, Joe Kann from Rockwell Automation and Tony Shakib from Cisco. Meanwhile, for the second webcast, one of our key partners in the industrial space, Rockwell Automation joined us along with Harley Davidson. Moderated by Jeff Reinke, Editorial Director of Manufacturing.net, the webcast speakers included David Gutshall, Infrastructure Design Manager at Harley Davidson, Rachel Conrad, Global Business Manager at Rockwell Automation and Bryan Tantzen, Senior Director, IoT Business Unit at Cisco.
Both Part I and Part II are worthwhile, whether you want to learn more about the key areas that are ripe for the IoT opportunity or want to better understand enabling technologies or best practices. In addition, I summarize David Gutshall’s comments on the Harley Davidson deployment and other best IoT practices in my blog, “IoT in Manufacturing: Insights and Best Practices”. We hope you have time to check out these on-demand webcasts. Thanks for reading.
This month, I’m excited to welcome a very special guest author to the We’re Listening blog series. Joe Pinto is Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Technical Services group, with responsibility for a wide array of programs that support customer experience excellence at Cisco, including technical assistance, onsite and spare part logistics, certifications including CCIE, and technical support resources. Throughout his nearly 24 years at Cisco, Joe has championed the customer experience in all aspects of Cisco’s business. He also initiated and continues to sponsor an Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) program within Cisco, with a cross-functional group that is dedicated to improving the end-to-end customer and partner experience.
Joe recently gave a great keynote address at the Walker B-to-B Customer Experience Summit that talked about how companies can improve EoDB for their customers and partners – I’ve asked him to share some of those thoughts here, as well as his overall takeaways from the conference. Read on, and don’t forget to comment with your thoughts and questions for Joe.
By Guest Contributor Joe Pinto
Last month, I delivered the keynote at the Walker B-to-B Customer Experience Summit. At the event, Walker announced the findings from their latest case study The Value of Making it Easy. Given this focus, it was a great opportunity to share Cisco’s approach to improving Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) in the customer and partner experience. Continue reading “The We’re Listening Blog Series: Sharing Customer Experience Best Practices at the Walker B-to-B Customer Experien …”
“Location, Location, Location” is what you need to keep in mind for real estate in the physical world. But in today’s
enterprise environment where everything is virtual and many critical apps are in the data center or cloud, the most important thing is connectivity.
So welcome to the era of connectivity, connectivity, connectivity!
As connectivity is so important, what can we do to ensure the uptime of the branch WAN connectivity without increasing costs?
Continue reading “IWAN Wed: What’s more important? Uptime or Cost?”
In my last post, I talked about the need for a paradigm shift from point-in-time detection technologies to a new model that combines a continuous approach with a big data architecture. This new model lets Cisco deliver a range of other innovations that enhance the entire advanced malware protection process across the full attack continuum—before, during, and after an attack.
One of these innovations, unique to Cisco AMP for Endpoints, is Attack Chain Weaving which introduces a new level of intelligence not possible with point-in-time detection technologies.
We all know that attackers are making it their job to understand traditional point-in-time detection technologies and innovate around their limitations to penetrate endpoints and networks. However, as these attacks unfold, they leave in their wake massive volumes of data. Attack Chain Weaving allows defenders to use this data to their advantage. A big data architecture handles the ever-expanding volume of data that is essential to effective malware detection and analytics, and a continuous approach uses that data to provide context and, most importantly, prioritization of events when and where you need it.
Continue reading “A New Model to Protect the Endpoint, Part 2: Attack Chain Weaving”
ISTE 2014 marks the launch of summertime for many educators as they come together to connect and share ideas about technology and innovation. Unsurprisingly, the theme of “connectedness” continues with this year’s show in Atlanta. The ability for schools to connect to the Internet and help make access to technology ubiquitous is changing learning in ways we probably never imagined: students can now take virtual field trips; they can access almost any information any time with the touch of a button, and traditional textbooks are going digital. Rapid advances in technology are accelerating change.
In 2015, 25 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. More things are connected to the Internet than there are people in the world. By 2020, that number will double to 50 billion devices, and each person will have an average 6.58 devices. We know that Internet of Things (IoT) connections will grow from two billion to six billion in the next five years, producing an enormous amount of information. Continue reading “#ISTE2014 – Beyond Connectedness to the Internet of Everything”
Sound familiar? We hear that term all the time. We hear it at home, we hear it at work, we keeping saying it to our elected officials. It’s a term often used when we are frustrated with progress. It doesn’t matter what the task is, we just want it done!
At Cisco we do a lot of research. We talk to customers to understand their needs, we survey customers to predict what their needs may be and we engage with the analyst community to understand how our industry is changing. Working from this feedback we aim to make an impact on the market with great products.
Moving to the Cloud has been a hot topic for the past few years and it has been amazing to watch the progress. Just two years ago, our Cloud Connected Survey highlighted the challenges Enterprises were facing as they tried to migrate to the Cloud, with Security being one of the top concerns. The Cisco product team responded to those concerns with the Cloud Services Router 1000V aiming to help Enterprises to ‘get on with it’ and accelerate their migration to the Cloud. Continue reading “Get On With It! Your Cloud is Waiting”
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