I’ve looked at Clouds from both sides now.

In the US, we’re running a 7-city tour, training Partner Sales Reps & SEs on Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud. We’ve just finished training in a fourth city, including Cisco reseller, system integration and technology Partners from the Western Hemisphere. Meanwhile, in London this week, leaders from the Intelligent Automation Solutions Business Unit are conducting sales enablement training for Partners as well as Direct Sales Reps and SEs from all over EMEA. On either side of the Pond scores of people are being brought up to speed on how to identify, qualify, and sell Cisco’s Cloud management solution.

Here in London, a handful of different languages ask the same question “How do we clearly and compellingly articulate the value of cloud computing and cloud management to our customers?”

At the same time, back in the US, Cisco’s Giuliano Di Vitantonio, Vice -President of Data Center and Switching Marketing is announcing Unified Data Center as part of the CloudVerse story. Cisco’s CTO, Padmasree Warrior talks about the CloudVerse in her post on The World of Many Clouds.

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Tags: automation, Cisco, clouds, data center, intelligent automation, private cloud, Public Cloud, UCS

One of the goals of my videos this week here at CES is to provide a 360 view of the Videoscape solution we announced.  One question that we are often asked is if this is really just a new “box” or set of technologies.

As you’ll see in this short video Kelly Ahuja, Cisco vice president of service provider architecture, states that “it’s not about the box” and that a purpose-built architecture can unlock new, exciting experiences and new revenue streams for service providers. He also talks about how Telstra is using elements of Videoscape in their network – today. Read More »

Tags: CES, clouds, consumer electronics show, devices, Service Provider, video, videoscape