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New Independent Research Study on Hybrid Cloud Business Trends and Technical Challenges
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[Join Cisco for a Live Announcement Webinar on Cloud Innovations on February 5: Register Here] A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cisco on Hybrid Cloud technology trends sheds light on many of the business drivers and technical obstacles to creating a seamless connection from the enterprise data center to cloud service […]
Journey to “Self-Healing” Enterprise Networks continued…
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Last month in my blog Journey to “Self-Healing” Enterprise Networks, we discussed reasons why IT process automation solutions for network domain has not fulfilled its promise. Today we will first reason of the two – “Need for out-of-the-box workflow templates for rapid development of network operation process automation for quick-wins”. In today’s high performance distributed […]
Customer Insight: Automotive Dealership Group saves $100,000 annually with Cisco Unified Data Center Solutions
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Are you in the market for a new car in this year? Automotive retailers compete for your business in one of the most competitive industries, so reducing infrastructure and operating costs is key to selling you a car at the price you want. Hendrick Automotive Group is the second largest privately held automotive retailer in […]
The Journey You Need To Take To Deliver IT As A Service
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Previously I talked about the growing demands and how the role of IT has to change from a cost center to a business strategic partner. It’s important to acknowledge that getting an organization to the point where it can implement IT as a Service isn’t easy, nor does it take place all at once. Every customer has […]
Gartner Report Highlights Benefits of Server Virtualization
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Every IT manager is tasked with gaining efficiencies across the data center and IT infrastructure while providing the business agility to react to changing demands, ultimately moving the data center from a cost center to a competitive weapon. IT organizations are looking for virtualization technologies to increase utilization levels, improve staff efficiency while reducing space, […]
Cisco Domain Ten: Domain 4: The User Portal
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The New Year 2013 has well and truly arrived – Happy New Year to all – and it’s time for me to continue on the Cisco journey of data center and cloud transformation. Last month I introduced the Cisco Domain TenSM framework, the approach we in Cisco Services take to help customers enhance and transform […]
Scenery from Skyfall, cycling by the Loch Ness Monster and 60mph+ Winds
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If you’ve followed my posts over 2012 for Cisco Data Center, you may have noticed that I took a slight departure back in September from data center topics to tell you about a “Giving Back” initiative I was part of in 2012 – the “Deloitte Ride Across Britain” (RAB). I noted previously the role […]
Was 2012 Year of the Converged Infrastructure Solutions?
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As we got past the Mayan Apocalyse day and as 2012 comes to an end, a question to reflect upon is if this has been the year of the Converged Infrastructure Solutions. Incidentally, use of these solutions by data centers was a topic of discussion on a panel moderated by Jim McHugh last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Ki-iBCZr8 […]
Cisco Domain Ten: Domain 3: Automation and Orchestration
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Continuing my tour of the Cisco Domain Ten (SM) framework for simplifying data center transformation, with this blog, I’ll build upon my previous blogs and introduce Domain 3, which is concerned with “Automation and Orchestration“. I’ve asserted previously that having an automated, virtualized data center is a necessary – but insufficient – basis for […]