Fabio Gori is currently Vice President of Engineering Alliances.
The Engineering Alliances initiative accelerates innovation with validated ecosystem solutions that cut complexity and time-to-market while ensuring predictable outcomes enabled by AI data centers and smart buildings.
At Cisco, Fabio has held a number of senior positions in sales, business development and marketing in the US and EMEA teams, including leading the Networking Product and Solutions Marketing organization.
Fabio has passion for change management, development of new strategies and GTM models, skiing and sailing.
Are we treating Cloud just like another Data Center?
Yesterday at Google Next, Urs Hölzle quoted a great stat by RightScale – users waste 45% of cloud resources that they buy. While this number is not too far from what typically happens in traditional data centers, which operate at 20-30% of capacity on average, cloud promises a pay-per-use model. You provision and pay for only what you utilize. This promise leaves the user with the impression that they will effectively achieve 100% value—reducing costs significantly compared to an inefficient data center. And while Google’s new committed pricing model tries to lessen the impact, it does not address the root cause of the problem.
The use of hybrid cloud or Intercloud technology is growing increasingly popular. A recent study supports that IT managers want a mix of public and private cloud in their enterprises. In fact, 60% of the 400 enterprises surveyed see the hybrid cloud model as the way to go. And for good reason: The same secure, open […]
For a number of years Intercloud has been a term known only in the academic world and amongst few industry experts. The Intercloud is a “cloud of clouds” and the Wikipedia description perfectly outlines the reason why Intercloud is the critical enabler to capture the immense value of the Internet of Everything- “The Intercloud scenario […]
Cloud computing is more mainstream today than ever before, but it’s important to note that there are still significant opportunities for IT leaders to innovate and leverage cloud delivery options to capture new business opportunities and implement new IT models. The Evolution of ITaaS: The Convergence of Two Roads On one hand, traditional private cloud […]
In my previous blog , I noted that IT is increasingly transitioning towards an IT service broker role, taking advantage of multiple sourcing options to become an intermediary of...
