IDC

October 12, 2015

DATA CENTER

Composable Infrastructure – Beyond Blade and Rack Servers

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Guest Blogger: Jed Scaramella, IDC Research Director, Servers and Datacenters   Over the past several months Cisco, Dell, HP and other vendors have introduced a new category of servers called composable infrastructure. These subsystems are based on disaggregated server architecture. In a new video series and an IDC paper I explain what is driving the […]

September 1, 2015

CLOUD

Cloud Adoption Today: A View of Cloud Maturity for IT Organizations

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By Robert Mahowald, IDC Program Vice President, SaaS and Cloud Services We recently surveyed more than 3,450 executive-level IT decisionmakers in 17 countries to find out their future plans and current state of cloud adoption. What we discovered is pretty remarkable. According to IDC’s CloudView Survey, 57% of organizations are already using or planning to […]

August 12, 2015

COLLABORATION

Cisco Delivers Improved Lync Interoperability

1 min read

Did you know that Lync is a fully supported client in Cisco Collaboration Meeting Room (Cisco CMR) meetings. When we say interoperability we mean it. Even when that means supporting proprietary protocols. For instance, to ensure that Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business users can fully experience the power of Cisco conferencing. IDC released the IDC MarketScape: […]

April 9, 2015

DATA CENTER

Road Trip! Cisco and Microsoft are going on a world tour!

1 min read

We will be in Dallas, London, New York, Paris, San Jose, and Toronto the next two months. If you are in the area, register and come learn more about transforming your data centers to take advantage of the newest Cisco infrastructure solutions along with Microsoft’s Cloud OS and workloads. Yesterday’s data centers cannot keep up […]

February 16, 2015

PARTNER

All signs point to one thing: if you aren’t talking to your customers about cloud services, your competition probably …

1 min read

According to a new IDC white paper, sponsored by Cisco, "Enabling Partner Value in the Cloud Economy", 68 percent of companies with more than 1,000 employees are using some form of cloud or plan to implement cloud within the next 12 months.

January 6, 2015

DATA CENTER

The Time for Desktop as a Service is Now

1 min read

A new whitepaper from IDC, “The Workspace-as-a-Service Opportunity: Why Now is the Time for Desktop as a Service” is a must-read for any organization facing the challenge of delivering applications and services to employees on mobile devices.  According to IDC, corporate-liable smartphone shipments will reach 110 million units in 2014.  In comparison, employee-liable smartphone shipments […]

December 23, 2014

MANUFACTURING

2015 Manufacturing Industry Predictions

6 min read

What’s new and trending for the industry? Well, predictions for the upcoming year as a motif is certainly not new but is definitely trending, considering the deluge of pundits concentrating...

August 13, 2014

DATA CENTER

Straight Talk About Cloud: 20 Providers and What They Think You Want

1 min read

There’s a lot of talk about cloud, and for good reason.  According to a new white paper from IDC, 68% of companies with more than 1,000 employees are using some form of cloud or plan to implement cloud within the next 12 months.  In addition, these companies adopting cloud expect to spend 54% of their […]

June 4, 2014

DATA CENTER

Customers choose innovation : Cisco UCS is the # 1 blade server in the Americas

2 min read

 Cisco’s First Trifecta This week IDC released the calendar 1Q14 server market share tracker report, which is starting to generate press given the news that Cisco UCS has achieved the #1 x86 blade server revenue market share position in the US, in North America and in the Americas  – a “triple crown” right before the […]