amazon

Cisco and Amazon Against Counterfeiting – Fighting the Good Fight, Together

2 min read

Small businesses around the globe are increasingly looking for faster, simpler, and more cost-effective ways to buy technology. In our last blog, we shared the benefits and risks of new routes to market and focused particularly on the ease of purchasing online. With this, comes a risk of purchasing inferior quality or even counterfeit goods. […]

February 28, 2019

INNOVATION

Diving Headfirst into the Co-Economy

4 min read

Given the complexity and pace of change in today’s digital economy, you can no longer operate in a silo – you must build an ecosystem of customers and partners, large and small, and start co-innovating with them.

November 15, 2018

INNOVATION

Innovating in a Corporation: The Best of Both Worlds

6 min read

While many people assume entrepreneurs cannot thrive in corporate environments, this is not the case. Corporations provide greater resources that enable employees to be even more innovative than employees at startups.

October 4, 2017

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

Back to School 2017 Takeaways on the Customer Experience

3 min read

Back to school (BTS) 2017 is officially in the books, and retailers are getting ready for the upcoming holiday season. Now is the time to reflect on key lessons learned for retailers. This year’s back-to-school sales were projected to be the most successful in the last five years, with total combined spending for college and […]

June 13, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud and On-Premises: The Best of Two Worlds

3 min read

Let’s be honest, when most IT people are questioned about cloud, immediately they would mention either Amazon (AWS) or Microsoft Azure; some may also mention Google Cloud Platform, IBM SoftLayer or even Rackspace. All of them are Public Cloud providers with their own expertise and offering as well as market share. According to a Forbes recent article, the more AWS and Azure compete to win customers, the greater the innovation and growth in Public Cloud adoption. The article has some interesting data points but, for the purpose of this blog,

April 25, 2017

INNOVATION

Amazon Exhibit 99.1: Ancient Wisdom in Modern Times

2 min read

Ancient wisdom holds golden nuggets of corporate and human behavior that are still relevant in modern times. Practicing these shared values helps avoid stasis, irrelevance, decline, and death.

June 11, 2015

SECURITY

Cisco brings proven ASA security to AWS marketplace customers

1 min read

We are very excited to announce the availability of Cisco’s best-selling Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv) for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform. Our customers can now use Cisco ASAv to protect their on-demand AWS workloads and achieve consistency across hybrid cloud environments. The Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv) runs the same software […]

January 13, 2015

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

The Delivery Experiment: My Week of Living Digitally

4 min read

One of the hottest topics at NRF this week has been delivery systems. Recent research by Cisco Consulting has found that delivery is one of the top concerns of not only retailers, but of shoppers as well. I now have personal experience of this: Just before the holidays, my husband and I ran an experiment: […]