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There are numerous reasons organizations look to extend their data centers. More dynamic and flexible computing needs and increasing storage capabilities are just a couple. And while this can sometimes prove a challenge for organizations, our Intercloud solution has given customers the freedom to expand their data centers, without compromising security, established user policies or workload control.

To understand how Intercloud provides all of these benefits, understanding exactly what Intercloud is (and what makes it up) is key.

Intercloud is the only globally connected network of clouds capable of delivering secure cloud applications and infrastructure anywhere in the world. Most importantly, Intercloud provides the critical “Three Cs” that CXOs and CIOs desire when looking to expand their cloud offerings and capabilities:

  • Choice– CXOs and CIOs can choose cloud based on how they want it and desire to integrate it.
  • Compliance– Intercloud’s flexibility makes it easy to comply, locally and globally.
  • Control– Intercloud can be monitored and controlled across every service, from every location.

Recently, Cisco partner Peak 10 achieved the Cisco Cloud Provider Certification with a Cisco Powered Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) designation. With this designation, Peak 10 is poised to play three pivotal roles within Intercloud. During our next #CiscoChat on August 27 at 2:00 p.m. EST, we’ll explore Intercloud, the three strategic elements that make it up and dive deeper into the three roles Peak 10 will play in Intercloud.

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Guided by Cisco’s @CiscoPowered moderator channel, Peak 10’s Director of Strategic Alliances Reggie Harris and Cisco’s Business Development Manager Kunjal Trivedi will field questions and offer insight into Peak 10’s and Cisco’s partnership.

At this year’s CLUS event, Peak 10’s live, real-world use case demonstration with Intercloud was one of the gathering’s most buzz-generating experiences. Presenting “Are Hybrid IT Solutions in Your Future,” Peak 10, a recent recipient of the Cisco partner award for Cloud Provider of the Year: US, demonstrated when and why organizations should consider hybrid IT solutions.

Peak 10’s development of an enterprise-class application, aided by Cisco’s hybrid cloud embedded within the Intercloud fabric, gives organizations increased ability to combine workloads across their chosen public or private clouds.

Be sure to join us on the upcoming #CiscoChat on August 27 at 2:00 p.m. EST to learn more about Intercloud and to see how Peak 10 solutions add to its offerings.

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Xander Uyleman

Senior Manager

Global Partner Marketing

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The evaluation is complete. And we think Cisco Unified Communications scored well. Very well, in fact. Just released, the 2015 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Unified Communications is a product-centric overview of UC vendors.

The report digs deeper into the vendors represented in the 2015 Magic Quadrant for UC. In Gartner’s words, it’s “intended to help organizations define their requirements and select specific products that match their needs as aligned with one of the use cases.”

In the report, Gartner evaluates the effectiveness of vendors in addressing user needs in four primary use cases. Cisco received the highest product score in three out of the four:

  • Full UCC with Strong Telephony Requirement
  • Full UCC with Strong CollaborationRequirement
  • Ability to Offer Hybrid Solutions

Not to worry, Cisco UC scored third highest in “Ability to Work with Complementary Vendors.”

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Thomas McCafferty

No Longer with Cisco

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Co-authored with Dani Schrakamp

Highways, bridges, railways, mass transit, ports, airports, and their cyber networks are all a part of critical transportation infrastructure, which is essential to the daily function of 21st century society. As urban population centers grow, so does the demand on transportation infrastructure. More and more commuters are shifting from using roadways to rail, bus and other means of public transportation.

This shift is changing the role of public transportation systems and the station hubs that support them. Commuters demand full connectivity – transportation operators must assume that everything and everyone needs to be connected to a network. But the growth of connected devices within transportation ecosystems dramatically increases the number of potential attack vectors. And as we open our transportation networks – both physical and digital – to more points of connectivity, concerns of vulnerability to increasingly sophisticated direct and indirect cyber attacks are on the rise.

The Internet of Everything is forming the foundation of the digital transformation of connected roads, rails, buses, airports, and ports being built all around the world. Improving global transportation systems increases mobility and improves safety and security for millions of people, in an environmentally conscious manner. Transportation agencies and organizations are approaching digital strategies that are changing the overall passenger experience, improving productivity, and generating new revenue streams; changing the traditional of the industry.

Continue reading “#WednesdayWalkabout Series: Trains, Planes, and Automobiles”

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Barry Einsig

Global Transportation Executive, Internet of Everything

Vertical Solutions Group

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Have you read the latest Cisco Connected Health newsletter?  Find out how the Internet of Everything (IoE) is helping to connect people, processes, data and things in order to streamline operations, redirect workflows and reduce capital outlays.

White Paper: Cisco Approach to Telehealth
Cisco can help your organization to establish a vision and architecture strategy for deploying a telehealth program to extend your delivery of quality care to whenever and wherever it is needed.

Moffitt Cancer Center Connects Doctors Globally
By using Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms (CMR) Cloud, which combine Cisco WebEx personal rooms with cloud-based WebEx video bridge technologies, doctors and researchers now have a simple way to connect with affiliates worldwide

White Paper: The Internet of Everything (IoE) and the Delivery of Healthcare
Connectivity is transforming healthcare delivery from a process of managing disease to an optimized, pro-active system of keeping people well.

Empowering Cost-Effective, High-Quality Care
Cisco Connected Health solutions and services enable new levels of communication and collaboration between patients, providers, payers, and life science organizations.

Expanding Your Reach with Effective Care-at-a-Distance Solutions
Cisco Care at a Distance solutions give patients, doctors, and hospitals better ways to communicate, educate, share information, and interact in real time.

White Paper: Combating Cybercrime in the Healthcare Industry
With the rising value of health records on the black market—roughly 10 times that of other records— it was only a matter of time before hackers began targeting hospitals and healthcare organizations in general.

Cisco Connected Health Assessment
Request this service, priced at $120K, to get an assessment of your network for Telehealth, Care Delivery optimization, Mobility, HIPAA, Network compliance and emerging standards for clinical networks.

Be sure to subscribe now to get our quarterly newsletter delivered directly to your inbox!

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Mike Haymaker

Healthcare Industry Marketing

No Longer with Cisco

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Whether you call it digital disruption or the age of the empowered customer, business models are being disrupted; and at the center are our customers.  Customers are driving new consumption models that focus and align the way they want to consume technology:  faster, cheaper and with a higher degree of service.  Accommodating our customers requires a business model that instantly creates and sustains business services.

Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite is a more valuable and proven way for any business to design, build and deploy private cloud services. It is rich in corporate enablement capabilities so you can meet the rising productivity challenges of today’s new operational models. It allows your business to better leverage data center resources and people at scale.

What makes Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite unique is modular automation, extensibility and coverage control.  You do not have to install all the components of the solution before you see business value or experience ROI.   Want to start by automating just the compute layer?  You can, just watch.

https://youtu.be/eWtK_HMBz4Q

Looking for a bit more than compute as a service?  Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite delivers a hybrid-ready private cloud.  This means your customers can consume data center, applications and business services from the same self-service portal aligning customers with their preferred method of consumption. Developers also benefit from the automated delivery of application stacks to accelerate delivery of new applications.

To learn more, watch this:

https://youtu.be/4Qt_sPoR-io

Does your business and application teams want workload placement flexibility?  Again, no problem.  Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite delivers a secure hybrid cloud network connection to any service provider or hypervisor platform. Command and control is maintain as your business’s governance is included. This video explains our hybrid cloud capabilities.

With Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite you get:

  • A modular architecture allowing you to automate at a pace comfortable to your business while it experiences ROI along the way
  • A self-service portal that converts data center and business services as well as applications into automated services that are delivered without human intervention
  • Peace of mind with secure hybrid cloud governance and compliance controls so employees can place workloads in the most efficient environment
  • Extensibility and coverage across diverse, heterogeneous technologies

This unique combination of ingredients is essential for a true enterprise class private cloud management solution.  Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite belongs on every enterprise’s list of private cloud management solutions to evaluate.

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Joann Starke

No Longer with Cisco

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Today, I’m excited to share with you some details on the 2015 Data and Analytics Conference, October 20-22 at the Hilton Chicago. The inaugural event will showcase some of the most innovative data and analytics thought leaders.

My favorite part of the event is listening to the customer presenters. I’d like to share with you a little background on these speakers and topics they will be presenting to get you excited as you’re planning your trip to Chicago.

Continue reading “The Data and Analytics Event of the Year!”

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Kevin Ott

No Longer with Cisco

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Disrupt or be disrupted. That’s the mantra of IT organizations and boardrooms across the globe. At least in the ones that will still be around. A recent report projects that digital disruption will displace approximately 40 percent of incumbent companies in each of the 12 industries studied within the next five years. The winners will be those companies that can innovate faster than their competitors. And they’re relying on the cloud (private, public, or hybrid) to get it done.

According to a new Cisco-sponsored IDC report (“Don’t Get Left Behind: The Business Benefits of Achieving Greater Cloud Adoption”), around four in 10 organizations have already adopted public or private cloud services. Up until now the primary goal of cloud adoption has been that of increasing efficiency and lowering costs. But a “second wave” of cloud adoption is emerging. Businesses are now adopting cloud to achieve transformative and measurable business value:

  • 54% expect cloud — public, private, and increasingly hybrid — to allow them to allocate IT budget more strategically.
  • 53% believe cloud will help their company increase revenues[1].

The Benefits Grow as You Move Up the Cloud Adoption Curve

These second-wave adopters expect cloud to make them faster, more innovative, and more disruptive. But as the Cisco-sponsored study also shows, the outcomes businesses realize from cloud are closely tied to the maturity of their cloud strategies.

IDC and Cisco view cloud adoption along a spectrum. Businesses range from “Ad Hoc”— the experimental stage where lines of business use cloud to fulfill an immediate need, often unauthorized by IT—all the way to those with repeatable, centrally managed cloud platforms that connect stakeholders with innovative IT products and services from both internal and external providers. Businesses with the most mature, or “Optimized,” cloud strategies are the ones seeing the most significant business benefits.

Continue reading “A Second Wave of Cloud Adoption is On the Rise. Are You Ready?”

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Nick Earle

Senior Vice President, Worldwide Services Sales

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Later today, Sean Hefty will present a paper about the OpenFabrics Interfaces (a.k.a. “libfabric“) at the 2015 IEEE Hot Interconnects conference.

Libfabric is the next-generation Linux library being developed by an open source consortium of vendors and academic researchers that implements the OpenFabrics Interfaces, specifically designed to expose application-focused networking functionality to high performance applications (e.g., MPI, PGAS, SHMEM, datacenter applications, etc.).

I’ve described libfabric in a few prior blog entires, and how we actively support Cisco usNIC functionality in libfabric.

Continue reading “Libfabric paper at IEEE Hot Interconnects”

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Jeff Squyres

The MPI Guy

UCS Platform Software