Hybrid Cloud

March 17, 2016

CLOUD

Predicting the Next Wave of Industry Disruption

4 min read

If you read the avalanche of marketing material from venture-funded loss-making startups in the cloud space you’d think that on-premise infrastructure will become akin to old typewriters lying around in store rooms and that IT departments will go the way of the dinosaurs after the asteroid hit. Any vendor advocating anything else is toast. Geddit? […]

March 14, 2016

DATA CENTER

Profile Once, Deploy Anywhere

1 min read

This is the third blog in a series on the management and orchestration ACI ecosystem partners that use the open northbound interface of the APIC. It is easier to see how partners that deliver application management enable businesses to become digital enterprises since a major element of digital strategies is delivered by the business applications. […]

March 10, 2016

CLOUD

Leading Edge Technology – Not Just For the Enterprise

2 min read

Hybrid Cloud.  These two words are individually or collectively on the minds of just about every business today, regardless of size.  Why?   If you’re implementing a private cloud, you will inevitably ask yourself if you should be leveraging public cloud for dev/test or an alternative place to deploy workloads. Traditional people think of hybrid cloud […]

March 1, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Delivering Cloud Services at Cloud Scale with Cloud Economics

5 min read

Super Tuesday delivers DC switching portfolio innovations and acceleration of hybrid cloud Today is Super Tuesday, with fourteen states and territories hosting primary elections. Lots of media and preparation goes...

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 1, 2016

CLOUD

Driving Business Outcomes with the Second Wave of Cloud Adoption

3 min read

Do you remember when cloud services first emerged? Driving operational efficiency was the name of the game – specifically reducing IT costs. Now, as organizations continue to innovate themselves, many are expecting their cloud services to be instrumental in digitization efforts that can improve business growth and drive innovation. A Cisco-sponsored IDC survey revealed that a second […]

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 12, 2016

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

The Digital Manufacturer: Differentiating with New Service-Oriented Revenue Models

2 min read

I spend a lot of time with manufacturing leaders around the world and often our conversations focus on innovation. It used to be that innovation was simply about creating a great product. Now, in a climate of profound digital disruption and intense global market pressures, business model innovation is just as important. As a result, […]

January 11, 2016

CLOUD

Beginning Your Hybrid Cloud Digital Transformation

2 min read

Moving to cloud has compelling value to organizations of all types and sizes. With benefits such as lower CAPEX, flexible scalability, and global access to enterprise-class IT resources, many businesses are able to increase their agility with public cloud services. As a consequence, they can act upon market opportunities faster and with great efficiency. The […]