Cloud Management

March 27, 2014

DATA CENTER

Let Cisco Cloud Work for Your Business

2 min read

At a recent event I saw a T-shirt that said “Remember when cloud only meant rain?”  In the days before cloud computing, asking someone what they thought about cloud usually invoked a response about an animal-shaped formation or looking at cumulonimbus and predicting precipitation. One thing that today’s IT clouds have in common with their […]

March 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

With Cisco Cloud Management, FASTWEB Delivers New Value-Added Cloud Services

2 min read

Imagine that you head the leading telecommunications provider in Italy and you are watching traditional service and revenue streams struggle under intense competitive pressure. Customer retention is a major issue because the types of services required by your residential and business clients are changing. Clearly, you need to retain customers and do so by offering […]

March 4, 2014

DATA CENTER

Move Past Survival and Thrive

2 min read

Every area of your business has a stake in the way IT delivers services. Each one needs speed, agility, efficiency, and a clear definition of its relationship with all of the other areas and the business as a whole. In order to get there and create an agile and efficient organization that flows, you need […]

February 17, 2014

DATA CENTER

Finding the “PERFECT” Cloud Service Provider With Cisco

4 min read

Selecting the right cloud service provider for your company requires more than just browsing through prospective cloud vendors’ websites and reading about them online. How do you decide which vendor to trust for the performance, reliability, and security you need? Whether you are in the process of migrating to the cloud or a current cloud […]

February 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

Automated Provisioning of Application Stacks

2 min read

Whether working with bare-metal servers or virtual machines; provisioning applications and infrastructure traditionally are independent tasks that are completed by different data center teams. Infrastructure is usually provisioned manually. Applications are customarily provisioned via golden templates. As customers look to move automation beyond infrastructure to include applications, the maintenance complexity and manual “last mile” configuration […]

February 10, 2014

DATA CENTER

Join the Conversation: Cisco and Forrester Webcast

1 min read

Cloud is changing the way businesses deploy and manage IT and business services. Industry analysts estimate that by the end of 2014, four out of 10 companies will have deployed a private cloud. But where do you start? Join Cisco and Forrester on February 18th, for this live webcast entitled: Cloud Management: It’s More than […]

February 5, 2014

DATA CENTER

Use Cloud to Execute Your Business Vision

2 min read

Major change and growth is happening in the way data centers are functioning. This change is being led by cloud technology. IT’s role is changing from an infrastructure provider to strategic business partner. The new role for IT is to align you with the services you need, when you need them, from a portfolio of […]

February 5, 2014

DATA CENTER

The Evolution of IT Process Automation: A Move Toward Service-Oriented Orchestration

4 min read

Let’s talk about Cisco Process Orchestrator. We recently released version 3.0 — and there are a lot of exciting features that have been introduced with this new release of our IT Process Automation (ITPA) / Run Book Automation (RBA) software. Cisco Process Orchestrator is the foundational engine on which Cisco has built a number of data center-, […]