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Previously I talked about the growing demands and how the role of IT has to change from a cost center to a business strategic partner. It’s important to acknowledge that getting an organization to the point where it can implement IT as a Service isn’t easy, nor does it take place all at once. Every customer has their own journey and different customers will take different journeys. For some, it’s all about doing what they do now, only more efficiently or perhaps adding new capabilities. For others, it’s about making that full-blown transformation to service-driven IT.
So how do you get there? Each phase expands into a series of key initiatives…
It all starts with moving into more of a unified architecture of network fabric and corresponding operations.
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Tags: ASA, Cisco, cloud, Cloud Computing, Consolidation, convergence, data center, DCNM, Fabric Path, FCoE, fex, it-as-a-service, LISP, MDS, nexus, Nexus 1000v, Nexus1010, NX-OS, OTV, switch, Unified Fabric, virtualization
Is your network ready to help you transform and be the strategic partner that you can be? Let’s face it… Today’s data centers are challenged with siloed resources and facilities… Limited scalability… Poor resource utilization… Growing complexity…Perhaps the biggest challenge is time. When 80% of your resources are dedicated to “keeping the lights on” and managing all what you have, there is very little time left for innovation that benefits the business.
And the reality is that the role of IT has to change – from a cost center to a business strategic partner! Why? Because there are increasing demands on IT to help your business differentiate in order to survive and grow in these rough economic conditions. And let’s not forget that the increasing cost pressures, technology changes, and the advent of game-changers like cloud are forcing IT executives to look at how to deliver IT differently.
These growing demands put even more pressure on the shoulders of IT especially given the current state of your Data Centers. The data center network sits at the core of IT and is key to how IT can deliver services and provide value back to the business.
So what do you do? The good news is that …
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Tags: ASA, Cisco, cloud, Cloud Computing, Consolidation, convergence, data center, DCNM, Fabric Path, FCoE, fex, Fibre Channel, it-as-a-service, LISP, MDS, nexus, Nexus 1000v, Nexus1010, NX-OS, OTV, switch, Unified Fabric, virtualization
February 2, 2012 at 9:52 am PST
Today’s IT organizations face a broad set of challenges today.
- How to deal with the proliferation of end-user devices? (smartphones, tablets, etc.)
- How to deal with the proliferation of virtualization and it’s new operational model?
- How to adapt to requirement for new application traffic patterns (east-west, VM mobility)?
- How to manage the edges of their networks as work/life locations blur?
- When do they decide to deliver a business need via internal resources vs. external resources?
- With all this technology change happening so rapidly, how do they align their teams?
Tags: Big Data, Cisco UCS, Cloud Computing, Cloud-Ready Network, Consolidation, FabricPath, Hadoop, LISP, nexus, OTV, virtualization
Sometimes Cisco creates some elaborate videos to convey ideas or concepts to the market or our customers. The production value is incredible and the imagery is often amazing.
Stop reading now if you’re looking for that here 
A good friend, the Data Center practice lead at a premier Cisco partner, asked me if we had any whiteboard videos that explained the value of Cisco UCS that he could use to help do on-going training with his sales team. They needed to be simple. He was already aware of the outstanding Cisco UCS Advantage video library, but he needed something up a few levels that was easy to remember. Read More »
Tags: automation, Cisco UCS, Consolidation, virtualization, x86 Compatible
