private cloud

February 1, 2015

DATA CENTER

Unleashing IT – Microsoft Special Edition

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The Lineup: Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel It’s no secret that tested and tried solutions will lead to a faster time to production, allowing you to stay at the forefront of innovation and, most importantly, stand out from the competition. The latest in our series of deep-dive examinations, our Microsoft-focused edition of Unleashing IT shows you how three […]

January 28, 2015

DATA CENTER

Introducing Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite

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Forrester research indicates that private cloud has entered into the formal IT portfolio by becoming a core part of data center strategy.   I have been writing about the sea change underway in private cloud.  This sea change means that automating the provisioning of virtual machines and their infrastructure is inadequate in a world where your […]

December 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

Innovate More with Confidence in Your Cloud

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Guest post from Dan Swart In my last blog post, Complexity and Control in the Cloud, I covered some basic considerations as you navigate vendors and solutions when planning your enterprise cloud. Unsurprisingly, when Cisco is talking to customers about their private cloud needs and our data center solutions, customers very quickly sound this panic […]

December 15, 2014

DATA CENTER

Complexity AND Control in the Cloud

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Guest post from Dan Swart We want what we want when we want it. Never truer than today when we’ve got a global marketplace of technology vendors vying to deliver on now practically required solutions like enterprise cloud. While it’s really impossible today to deploy an enterprise cloud using products created by a single vendor, […]

December 11, 2014

OPEN AT CISCO

OpenStack Podcast #12: Interview with Redapt CTO Mark Williams

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Mark Williams was in the middle of the action when Zynga initially started cranking out megahit games and the company’s IT organization had to find the resources to cope with exponential growth. Hear the experience he and his team had as they moved to Amazon, scaled on Amazon, then moved many of their workloads back […]

November 11, 2014

DATA CENTER

Lunch is on Us – Unlocking the Potential of a Well Balanced Secure Hybrid IT Strategy

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Much like the MPG argument when comparing diesel engines versus regular gas engines, and hybrid gas/electric versus pure plug-in electric vehicles, similarly valid arguments can be made for any combination of IT strategies: the traditional on-premise data center and private clouds, versus IT out-sourced. What IT strategy you chose will no doubt come down to what […]

November 3, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Red Hat – All In with OpenStack for the Enterprise

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When it comes to driving innovation in next generation data center architectures, open source is clearly at the forefront. A perfect example is OpenStack, which is defining the future of cloud computing across private, public and hybrid clouds. This innovation is being driven by a strong and vibrant community that is taking place in Paris […]

October 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco and NetApp – Partnering for the Hybrid Cloud

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Hybrid cloud is finally here.  Since cloud came on the scene a few years back, companies have had the choice of building a private cloud, which they managed on premises, or buying services from a public cloud provider.  Typically, companies had to pick one or the other for a given application.  With the Intercloud, IT […]

August 25, 2014

DATA CENTER

Hybrid Cloud meets Cisco Intercloud Fabric

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If you are like the many IT managers we talk to every day, you prefer to have options whenever you tackle a project or formulate your IT strategy. Perhaps, you do not like the idea of feeling limited, constrained or unable to leverage a viable contingency plan. Architecting your cloud strategy should be no exception […]