cloud services

July 18, 2023

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Cohesity Join Forces Again to Unlock Value of Data in Hybrid and Multicloud Environments

4 min read

Today, we announced that Cisco will be selling Cohesity Cloud Services (CCS), a portfolio of fully managed, cloud-native, as-a-service (aaS) offerings that provide backup and recovery, threat detection and data classification, and cyber vaulting services.

July 10, 2018

CISCO SERVICES (CX)

Are You Cloud Native?

2 min read

In IT, the “next big thing” comes along fairly often. In the cloud, one particular "next big thing" has been in progress for a couple years now -- cloud native computing.

Simplify your managed services and grow your market

2 min read

Delivering Managed network services now costs less than ever. Whole new markets are ready and waiting for the benefits they bring. It took years for alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar power, to become affordable to consumers and profitable for providers. The same is true of managed network services. For years, network service […]

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 […]

February 23, 2016

CLOUD

Not All Clouds Are Created Equal

2 min read

Does the idea of building out your own data center make you pause? Remember, the cloud enables you to leverage the investment service providers have made in cloud to reduce your own CAPEX and OPEX spending. You can literally transform how you do business with a wide range of infrastructure, collaboration, security, and recovery services […]

February 11, 2016

CLOUD

Cisco Live Berlin: Managing the Hyper Adoption of Cloud

2 min read

As I shared in my last blog, cloud use is rampant, pervasive, exploding! As a short recap, large organization are now using an average of 1,220 cloud services (most unknown to IT departments). The tremendous spike in cloud service usage presents challenges for IT including higher business risks, costs, and a shortage of IT resources […]

January 19, 2016

CLOUD

Shadow IT: Rampant, Pervasive, and Explosive!

4 min read

When wireless for LAN burst onto the scene, companies were a lot slower than their employees to embrace it. Employees didn’t want to be tied to their desks.  So they brought in their own wireless access points, stashing them under desks and in conference rooms. Soon companies began realizing they had a big mess of […]

January 19, 2016

CLOUD

A Promise From A Cloud Provider That Means Something

2 min read

There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes in cloud. This makes it difficult to know how reliable a provider’s cloud is going to be. Many are best-effort implementations, meaning you only have the provider’s word for it that their cloud is reliable. These providers also often employ a white-box infrastructure so you don’t […]