Cisco Cloud Center

October 20, 2017

CLOUD

Turn the Lights on in Your Automated Application Deployments – Part 2

3 min read

In the previous post we described the benefit of using Application Automation in conjunction with Network Analytics in the Data Centre, a Public Cloud or both. We described two solutions from Cisco that offer great value individually, and we also explained how they can multiply their power when used together in an integrated way. This […]

October 18, 2017

CLOUD

Turn the Lights on in Your Automated Application Deployments – Part 1

4 min read

A very common goal for software designers and security administrators is to get to a Secure Zero-Trust model in an Application-Centric world. They absolutely need to avoid malicious or accidental outages, data leaks and performance degradation. However this can be very difficult to achieve sometimes, due to the complexity of distributed architectures and the coexistence […]

October 5, 2017

PERSPECTIVES

Digital Transformation and “Cloud Ready”

8 min read

We hear a lot about digital transformation, hybrid cloud, and “lift and shift (to cloud)” from various marketing sources. Let’s examine that.

October 4, 2017

CLOUD

Extending Hyperconverged: Three Questions to Ask About Hybrid Cloud

4 min read

Many hyperconverged buyers have infrastructure responsibility in their data center. And if you are an infrastructure manager, Cisco HyperFlex make your job easier by combining hardware and software into...

September 20, 2017

CLOUD

From Hyper-Converged to Hybrid Cloud – Four Key Success Factors

3 min read

I’ve been learning about customers who have kicked off their hybrid cloud efforts by using HyperFlex with CloudCenter—which is the Cisco UCS based hyper-converged solution that...

March 10, 2017

CLOUD

Are We Treating Cloud Just Like Another Data Center?

3 min read

Are we treating Cloud just like another Data Center? Yesterday at Google Next, Urs Hölzle quoted a great stat by RightScale – users waste 45% of cloud resources that they buy. While this number is not too far from what typically happens in traditional data centers, which operate at 20-30% of capacity on average, cloud promises a pay-per-use model. You provision and pay for only what you utilize. This promise leaves the user with the impression that they will effectively achieve 100% value—reducing costs significantly compared to an inefficient data center. And while Google’s new committed pricing model tries to lessen the impact, it does not address the root cause of the problem.

March 6, 2017

CLOUD

Clouds Gather (In a Good Way) at Cisco Live Berlin

3 min read

Berlin. Europe’s Europe. Where someone thought of doing this so you can smile when paying to park your car: Where this was also happening the week before the last: In other words, the first Cisco Live for 2017 (and unsurprisingly the subject of this post). But before I get into the details of the event, […]

December 8, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco ACI Partner Ecosystem Packs a Punch – 65 Partners and Growing

8 min read

When it comes to leadership in the SDN marketplace, clearly there is one winner. And that is, Cisco ACI. The proof is in customer momentum numbers. Cisco ACI has 2700+...