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January 6, 2015

DATA CENTER

IT Automation Eases the Cost of Doing Business

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The increasing pace of business is creating high demand for IT efficiency and speed. IT directly affects your ability to respond correctly and quickly to new opportunities.  Slow IT equates to slow business. The latest release of Cisco UCS Director allows IT to automate the deployment of infrastructure delivering the speed and efficiency IT needs […]

SDN and NFV Use Cases in EPN

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My last post reviewed some of the building blocks of SDN (Software Defined Networking) and positioned the protocols and APIs (Application Programming Interface) into categories so that the multitude of technologies associated with SDN can be positioned in a coherent framework. This month I’d like to start looking at some use cases where some of […]

January 5, 2015

DATA CENTER

Capture New Business Opportunity with Effective Automation

2 min read

The connections between your business success and data center efficiency have never been clearer or stronger. Delivering data center resources quickly to capitalize on new business opportunities or projects is a major factor for business success. The only way to expedite resource delivery is by replacing manual processes with repeatable, best-practice-based automated service consumption and […]

December 2, 2014

DATA CENTER

Is IT Automation the Key to Operational Excellence? Industry Analysts Think So

1 min read

Businesses move quickly until they have to cross rough roads paved with technical challenges. That’s because even though data centers are sophisticated, the components that support most businesses still include far too many 20th century manual processes, silo based resources and administrators pressured to keep up. Although automation can speed up IT, and your business, […]

November 19, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Building a true HetNet

2 min read

By Andrew Mackay,  Head of Mobile Solutions, APAC I have discussed in the past the increasing importance of Smallcells in a...

October 17, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

What’s in the Cisco Evolved Services Platform’s Orchestration Engine?

2 min read

We created the Evolved Services Platform (ESP) to help our customers increase service revenue while driving down costs. In doing so, we needed to make it expansive to include the breadth of technologies and solutions that would apply to many domains (such as access, Wide Area Network (WAN), and data center) and technologies (such as […]

October 13, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Learn How to Transform your Network with Cisco Innovations at MEF GEN14!!

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By Gina Nienaber, Marketing Manager, SP Product and Solutions Marketing   Cisco is a sponsor of a new show this year, the Metro Ethernet Forum Global Ethernet Network 2014 show or “MEF GEN 14” to be held on November 17-20th, at the Gaylord National in Washington, DC. The event promises to bring together leading industry […]

June 17, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Tail-f Systems

1 min read

Every day our world becomes increasingly connected. And as the Internet of Everything (IoE) continues to develop, service providers who provide us with video, voice, and data services are faced with managing explosive growth of demand on their network, including the number of applications and platforms needed to improve the way we live, learn, work […]

Combining Cloud, NFV, and SDN to create agile new services

3 min read

Written By Volker Tegtmeyer, Senior Manager Product & Solution Marketing The industry is going through a huge business transformation. Enterprises want to focus their resources and investments on their core business rather than investing in non-core IT operations. They are looking at consuming network and IT services from the cloud, rather than investing in in-house […]