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Enrico Fuiano

Senior Solutions Marketing Manager

Cisco Cloud Marketing Team

Enrico Fuiano is a Senior Solutions Marketing Manager part of the Cisco Cloud marketing team.

Enrico has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years and has held a variety of different positions in R&D, Strategic Business Development, Strategic Alliances, Product Management, Product and Solutions Marketing.

Over the course of his career Enrico has acquired broad competencies in data center, enterprise software (information management in particular) and cloud computing (e.g., SaaS) related areas.

A tennis and personal finance enthusiast, Enrico resides in New Jersey with his wife and family. During the past few years he has mastered hurricane avoidance and survival techniques.

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May 31, 2016

CLOUD

OpenStack Can Be Complicated .. But It Does Not Have To Be

2 min read

Another debate is over … and I am not referring to the US presidential election … I am referring to the growing maturity of OpenStack and its level of adoption in the marketplace. Over 7,500 people attended the last OpenStack Summit in Austin, TX. The energy at the event was palpable. Various organizations stepped forward […]

March 29, 2016

CLOUD

Infographic: Are you ready for the Hybrid Cloud?

1 min read

Many organizations realize the fact that only a limited percentage of private cloud implementations will remain within the boundaries of their data center(s). And that is why they are already deploying hybrid clouds to achieve significant benefits such as: Lower TCO On-demand flexibility for hosting workloads on-premises or in the cloud Faster response to market and business needs Better alignment between […]

March 25, 2016

CLOUD

Hybrid Cloud Is Growing … But Requires Workload Portability, Security, and Policy Enablement

2 min read

The variety of interpretations about what hybrid cloud is, should be or could be continues to evolve …. This is why for quite some time whenever hybrid cloud comes up I have tried to discuss hybrid cloud in very practical terms. The most popular interpretations of hybrid cloud typically fall across the following main categories: Some organizations […]

March 21, 2016

CLOUD

Infographic: How Do You Consume Private Cloud?

1 min read

For many organizations – depending on the application, data management policies and use case(s) – deploying a private cloud environment for all their applications is not necessarily the best path. As outlined in my previous blog, the best cloud strategy gives you the largest number of options. Specifically, you will have to make decisions regarding […]

March 18, 2016

CLOUD

Cloud Strategic Choices: Keep Your Options Open

3 min read

Just as we are beginning to think that the latest cloud news may have become quite predictable, you run into an article that causes you to pause: “Dropbox moves 90% of its data off Amazon AWS in favor of its own private cloud” What I found interesting about the article, as it relates to what […]

February 1, 2016

CLOUD

Driving Business Outcomes with the Second Wave of Cloud Adoption

3 min read

Do you remember when cloud services first emerged? Driving operational efficiency was the name of the game – specifically reducing IT costs. Now, as organizations continue to innovate themselves, many are expecting their cloud services to be instrumental in digitization efforts that can improve business growth and drive innovation. A Cisco-sponsored IDC survey revealed that a second […]

September 1, 2015

CLOUD

Cloud Adoption Today: A View of Cloud Maturity for IT Organizations

3 min read

By Robert Mahowald, IDC Program Vice President, SaaS and Cloud Services We recently surveyed more than 3,450 executive-level IT decisionmakers in 17 countries to find out their future plans and current state of cloud adoption. What we discovered is pretty remarkable. According to IDC’s CloudView Survey, 57% of organizations are already using or planning to […]

August 25, 2014

DATA CENTER

Hybrid Cloud meets Cisco Intercloud Fabric

3 min read

If you are like the many IT managers we talk to every day, you prefer to have options whenever you tackle a project or formulate your IT strategy. Perhaps, you do not like the idea of feeling limited, constrained or unable to leverage a viable contingency plan. Architecting your cloud strategy should be no exception […]

July 23, 2014

DATA CENTER

So many workloads and so many clouds ….

3 min read

  Recently, I had the opportunity to join a discussion regarding the #FutureOfCloud in the #InnovateThink  Tweet Chat. One of the questions that came up revolved around the process typically used to associate a workload with a specific cloud deployment model. That is an important question and top of mind whenever we speak with customers. […]

July 11, 2014

DATA CENTER

#InnovateThink Tweet Chat on Friday, July 11 at 10 a.m. PST: Exploring the Next Phase in Cloud

2 min read

The World of Many Clouds™ is evolving. With greater access to cloud-based services and applications and the wherewithal to adopt them, CIOs are facing increased IT purchases coming from outside their department. In order for IT leaders to maintain relevance and control they must act as cloud brokers to the lines of business (LOBs). And […]

February 6, 2014

DATA CENTER

Unleash the Promise of Cloud: A Strategic Perspective – The Landscape

4 min read

If you are reading this blog hoping to get a universal recipe for your cloud strategy, I believe you will be disappointed. But then, you already know…. there are no ‘universal’ cloud strategies. You have to formulate a cloud strategy that best fits your business objectives and IT priorities (among a number of other factors.)  Our […]

January 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco’s Cloud Portfolio – A Quick Overview

4 min read

Yesterday at Cisco Live! Milan we announced Cisco’s expanded, industry-leading cloud portfolio to pave the way for interoperable and highly secure public, private and hybrid clouds. If you want to learn more about the recent additions to our Cloud portfolio, Fabio Gori’s blog will provide you with a great summary. We have a very clear […]

June 13, 2013

DATA CENTER

And now, finally, you can afford to let your VDI administrator go on vacation ….

2 min read

  I know I know.. You are already familiar with the fundamentals of Desktop Virtualization. So we are not going to talk about that.  However, if you do not know much about Cisco’s capabilities in the space and you have three minutes and twenty seconds of your busy day to spare, you can watch this […]