Hybrid Cloud

June 23, 2017

CLOUD

Traits of Cloud Optimized Organizations

3 min read

I am headed to Cisco Live in Las Vegas and I am looking forward to meeting with our partners and customers to learn more about their cloud plans and challenges. Believe it or not, cloud has been around for at least ten years, and yet all the data points at my disposal tell us that there is room for continuous improvements since very few organizations have optimized cloud strategies in place. In other words, not many organizations have been able to define and implement their multicloud strategy to meet their objectives while extracting maximum value.

June 15, 2017

CLOUD

A Rich Partner Ecosystem for a Successful Cloud Strategy

3 min read

I continue to bet on Cloud Computing (I am not referring to the horse that won the Preakness Stakes ahead of ‘Classic Empire’) but as I place that bet … my assumption … is that the various major industry players will continue to work together in a meaningful way toward the progressive standardization of cloud technologies.

May 18, 2017

CLOUD

The Force is Strong With the Bold New Tech Buyer

3 min read

The recent CNCF CloudNative 2017 conference in Berlin played host to the crème de la crème of IT, niche container-focused software vendors, and integrators. All of them came equipped with their most switched-on engineers and marketers (intentionally leaving the usual marketing glaze behind).

May 17, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 08: Joe Weinman

1 min read

What comes to mind when you hear the term “digital transformation”? Do you get excited about the possibilities? Impatient for the budget to pursue your vision? Or do you have a more muted response? Something between annoyance at the thought that you need to do research on the topic, and anxiety that it’s moving forward […]

May 10, 2017

DATA CENTER

Can Cloud Customers Have It All?

3 min read

Successful organizations offer optimized services and engaging customer experiences. To do this many have turned to cloud computing to achieve digital flexibility, reduced operability costs and streamlined efficiency.

April 20, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco CloudCenter (formerly CliQr) Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of Acquisition by Cisco

2 min read

The former CliQr team and Cisco worked hard to enable the field force and global partners to be able to sell, deploy and support CloudCenter. Across every industry, CloudCenter is helping customers capitalize on the real power of cloud computing.

April 19, 2017

CLOUD

Get Ready For The Next Wave Of Container Adoption

3 min read

On the heels of announcing the strategic alliance with Docker, today at DockerCon, Cisco announced that we are joining Docker in the Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA) program. MTA is a turnkey program consisting of products and consulting services from Docker and Cisco. Most organizations strive to get the agility in developing and delivering business applications while increasing data-center efficiencies. Exactly the promises of cloud and containerization. However, according to IDC, only 3% of organizations have achieved optimized cloud deployments.

April 13, 2017

DATA CENTER

Go Fast with Cisco Hybrid Cloud

1 min read

Your company lives or dies by the applications you provide to customers and employees. Their expectations on how they access these applications have changed. Go Fast with Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite.

April 11, 2017

DATA CENTER

Help Is On The Way

1 min read

Digital transformation has created a sense of urgency to adopt “as a service” business models, such as hybrid cloud.  Hybrid cloud delivers speed and agility.  Users are empowered to deploy workloads across multiple cloud platforms.  Your business stays compliant and safe.  Business and development teams can use their platform of choice. Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud […]