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April 23, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Need for a New IT Model: Fast IT and the Convergence of Mobility and Cloud for IoE

2 min read

Guess what? Convergence is happening again, and it’s happening at a faster pace with more profound implications than I have never seen before. Those of us who’ve been in the industry a long time have seen convergence happen over the years across various technologies and areas of IT. This time, we’re talking about convergence across […]

April 23, 2014

DATA CENTER

Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9710 – Part I

2 min read

Note: This is the first of a three-part series on Next Generation Data Center Design with MDS 9700; learn how customers can deploy scalable SAN networks that allow them to Scale Up or Scale Out in a non disruptive way.  Part 2 | Part 3 ] Data centers are undergoing a major transition to meet […]

April 17, 2014

PARTNER

When and How to Use Cloud

3 min read

One thing is clear to me. Managing IT is similar to playing a game of Jenga, which challenges players to build a stack of blocks then remove those blocks without being the one to knock the whole stack over. Whenever an IT manager wants to make a move or a change to any of the technology stacks in the IT infrastructure, it’s literally like pulling out a block without knocking the entire stack over. For this reason, many companies are taking advantage of cloud computing to automate and simplify their IT management.

April 10, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco Intercloud Provides a Platform for Application Enablement and Innovation

3 min read

  Over the past weeks, Cisco Cloud Services  introduce a global Intercloud .  Today I'd like to explain how Cisco Intercloud provides a platform for Cisco, ISVs, and partners application...

April 8, 2014

PARTNER

Monetizing the Shift to Cloud and Hybrid IT with Services

3 min read

Picture this scene, which took place last month at Cisco's Partner Summit in Las Vegas. I had been talking for a few minutes in the lobby of the Venetian with a long-time Cisco partner when he suddenly asked, “Raja, how are you guys at Cisco going to help us use services to capitalize on cloud and hybrid IT?” I answered: “Plenty…and rapidly expanding.”

April 3, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco Global Intercloud : Open and Interoperable

2 min read

Enterprises have taken on many cloud computing opportunities but for the most part the adoption of applications on the cloud is very early and mostly for new applications and for...

April 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

Achieving Data Center Agility in the World of Many Clouds

2 min read

Here’s an amazing fact I heard the other day: global network traffic has grown 16-fold since 2005 – 16-fold!  Largely due to the booming popularity of on-demand video, and...