Cisco cloud

June 27, 2017

CLOUD

The Best OpenSource Solution for Microservices Networking – Part 1

6 min read

There is a big (justified) hype around containers and microservices. Indeed, many people speak about the subject but few have implemented a real project.

June 23, 2017

CLOUD

The Superheroes of Cisco Live and Why it’s Good to Have Your Head in The Clouds

3 min read

At Cisco Live US 2017, we celebrate the ones who hold IT all together; who keep IT running; the heroes and superheroes. You are IT and we salute you!

May 23, 2017

CLOUD

Customer Experience and Cloud. Why Cisco?

4 min read

I recently wrote a previous blog about Starbucks Digital Transformation to highlight that, it is really happening and that there are actual business results out of their strategy. It is not only a marketing campaign nor a crazy idea but a vision and a strategy to drive business outcomes. As part of Digital Transformation, Cloud, permeates everything we do and powers digital transformation. Its impact on customer experiences, business processes and models, and workforce innovations, is undeniable.

April 7, 2017

CLOUD

Accelerate Container Adoption – Meet Cisco at DockerCon

2 min read

It’s DockerCon time again! We are excited to be the Gold Sponsor of the conference this year and looking forward to engaging with the community to accelerate the momentum in container adoption. If you are planning to attend this premier container community and industry conference, meet the Cisco team to learn how many organizations just like yours are deploying cloud-native applications and successfully modernizing traditional applications using Docker and Cisco products.

April 3, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud, As Seen From My Recliner At Home

2 min read

Our household is definitely “Alexa”-enabled, but behind the scenes, there’s also Apple, Logitech Harmony, Philips Hue, WeMo, Spotify, and Nest. Here’s the thing…without something to coordinate it all, what would my experience be like?

March 24, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud Buyers and the Org Charts They Live In

3 min read

Cloud products have a very different kind of buyer than traditional hardware gear. Cisco, long a trusted supplier of the IT organization, is getting to know a new and increasingly influential group of people: Developers in line of business teams.

March 22, 2017

CLOUD

Digital Transformation, Cloud and … a Cup Of Coffee?

3 min read

I am not a big Starbucks fan but let us face it, it’s nice to go there, sit down and have a coffee while you work. The sound, the ambiance or let us say the customer experience it’s good. When you are in a hurry and especially if you are in a business area, the lines get very long and on a Monday morning, you really need some caffeine to boost your Data Center brain. Not being an early adopter made me either spent more time in those long lines or missing my morning coffee until I downloaded the Starbucks app.

March 16, 2017

CLOUD

Hybrid IT: The New Frontier

2 min read

IT has evolved from running and maintaining traditional infrastructures, to a broader role of delivering new business outcomes. Enter Hybrid IT, which recognizes that where workloads run is just one small part of an entire IT infrastructure. More than just hybrid cloud, it’s a strategy that blends cloud and non-cloud capabilities, including networks, end-points, and workloads with the best that cloud can offer in public IaaS and SaaS. Despite recent outages with public cloud, enterprises need to strike a balance.

March 15, 2017

CLOUD

Why Millennials Don’t Think In Boxes

3 min read

I was born in the mid-80s. I started breaking down computers quite early and I had PSTN internet by the time I was 16 (having frequent arguments with my parents when they regularly disconnected me in order to hold meaningless important conversations with other members of our extended Greek family).