Cloud Management

October 24, 2016

DATA CENTER

Monday Morning Sure Looks Fine

1 min read

You’re the head of IT facing the start of another week.   Another set of challenges.  Application teams going around IT.   Business teams expecting near-instant service.  Your company is growing fast.  Way beyond your ability to plan — let alone respond. You may think this is far-fetched.  I speak with a lot of customers and this […]

Cisco Digitizes Industrial Solutions with IoT

5 min read

Today Cisco announces the extension of scalable industrial solutions in the Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio with new IoT products. With these new technologies, Cisco continues to extend its leadership in the Industrial IoT space. Enhanced Cisco Solutions Support Three Major IoT Use Cases: Connected Machines: With 92 percent of today’s 64 million machines not connected […]

June 1, 2016

CLOUD

Meeting the Challenge of Reselling Cloud Services

3 min read

Today’s Guest Blog comes to us courtesy of Steve Vicinanza, CEO of Cirrity. As a reseller, your customers depend on you to fully qualify and carefully select the products and services you recommend. This is especially true when you resell cloud computing services, which establish a dependency between the customer and the cloud provider. If the […]

December 23, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco’s Connected Home…Reimagined

2 min read

Guest Blog by: Steve Gorretta, Manager, Product Management, Cisco Service Provider Software and Solutions When you hear Cisco leadership discuss the transformation of our business and the drive to be the #1 IT company, you will no doubt hear some recurring themes around cloud management, big data analytics, security, and Internet of Things (IoT). These […]

November 3, 2015

CLOUD

Gartner 2016 Predictions: Cloud Security Challenges Rise From Within

2 min read

Today, most employees access public cloud solutions by bypassing IT. This is concerning for CIOs/CEOs given that it puts their organizations at substantial risk for data security and compliance challenges. But, what if it isn’t actually the public cloud that you need to worry about? What if it’s your own internal processes that are the […]

September 16, 2015

CLOUD

Ostrich or Eagle: How CIOs Can Address the Shocking Reality of Shadow IT

3 min read

Recently, I had a conversation with a CIO and her team. We were reviewing the extraordinary growth of unknown and known cloud services within organizations like hers. She turned to her team and asked “well what should we do?” Some of her leaders said: “we can’t control it, so why should we discover it?” Others […]

August 18, 2015

CLOUD

Cut Your Risks & Costs By Reducing Redundant Cloud Services

2 min read

How crazy is this? We’ve found that large organizations on average use 172 compute, 157 marketing and sales and 62 finance services from the cloud. Some organizations use nearly double these amounts! Simply put, as businesses groups control more IT spend and purchase more cloud services, cloud sprawl is skyrocketing. A large organization now uses […]

July 27, 2015

CLOUD

Gain Intelligence From Cloud Sprawl

2 min read

Co-authored with    Robert Dimicco Senior Director, Advanced Services   How many cloud services do you think your enterprise uses? You’ll be surprised: businesses use ~10-15 X more cloud services – unknowingly. This is what we call ‘cloud sprawl,’ because there are too many cloud services in a given environment and not enough visibility or control […]

July 13, 2015

CLOUD

Get Your Cloud Assessed – And Better Manage It Too

2 min read

In the last two years, we’ve used Cisco Cloud Consumption Assessment and helped many customers discover and understand their cloud services, costs and security risks. The results are surprising! On average, enterprises use nearly 675 cloud services, have much more risk controls needing attention, and use the same cloud services across multiple categories like compute […]