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Robert Dimicco

Senior Director

Advanced Services

Global leader and founder of Cisco’s Cloud Consumption and Broker Services Practice which enables the adoption of cloud services; SaaS, IaaS and XaaS. The SaaS products and professional services solve for shadow IT by discovering and managing cloud usage, spend, business risk and lifecycle of assets in public, hybrid and private clouds.

Bob was previously in Cisco Development as GM of the Emerging Solutions BU and co-GM for the Secure Networks BU. These groups developed software and hardware for the Data Center and Security spaces.

Before Cisco, Bob was North American GM for Xerox’ Internet Solutions Group which developed content management applications. His role spanned Sales, Applications Engineering and Operations. He was formerly founder and GM of Xerox’ Multifunction Peripherals BU. He started at Hewlett-Packard, first leading product and services lines in enterprise systems, then in sales with US Channels.

What he’s done so far:

Profitable Growth: Founded and grew businesses in many product and service areas, from $0M to $135M+ corporate start-ups to units with $185M+ in revenues. Drove benchmark levels of innovation, customer satisfaction, growth and profitability.

Building Organizations: Created new product divisions, services units and sales groups from inception to 400+ team members. Recruited leadership talent to executive roles and grew organizational competencies, processes and structures for long-term excellence.

Driving Strategy: Led strategy development for global, $2B+ software and services entity, including identifying disruptive market opportunities and portfolio and capabilities investments. Created strategy for $3B field organization selling servers and PC’s/peripherals through distribution, retail and e-commerce.

Global Breadth: Developed and sold products and services in the US, Europe and Asia and partnered to source talent, technology, delivery and manufacturing capabilities from India, Taiwan and China.

Articles

December 2, 2014

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DATA CENTER

Pros and Cons: Do-It-Yourself Approaches to Monitoring Shadow IT & Cloud Services

2 min read

Shadow IT is estimated to be 20-40 percent beyond the traditional IT budget. The ease by which organizations can purchase apps and services from cloud service providers (CSP) contributes significantly to this spending. This is an eye-catching number worthy of investigation—not only to identify and reduce costs, but to discover business risks. So, it is […]

October 2, 2014

DATA CENTER

Q&A: Cisco IT’s Lessons Learned In Assessing the Risk of New Cloud Services

4 min read

2,000+ That is the approximate number of cloud services that Ken Hankoff, Manager of Cisco IT Risk Management’s Cloud and Application Service Provider Remediation (CASPR) Program believes Cisco’s 70,000 employees use. For the last 14 years, this program has assessed and remediated risks associated with using a cloud-hosted service. An assessment process for new cloud […]

July 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

Steps to Overcome the Business Risks of Cloud Services

3 min read

Do any web search on the inhibitors of moving to cloud and you’ll find a primary challenge rises to the top—business risk. The benefits of cloud often outweigh risks,...

July 29, 2014

SECURITY

Summary: Mitigating Business Risks

1 min read

Organizations are rapidly moving critical data into the cloud, yet they still have serious concerns about security and other business risks. Read Bob Dimicco’s blog to learn several important steps companies can take to mitigate the risks of cloud services, such as uncovering shadow IT, assessing data security, and instituting cloud-specific employee policies.

July 7, 2014

SECURITY

Summary: Governing the World of Many Clouds with Cisco Cloud Consumption Optimization Service

1 min read

CIOs face a scary reality. They only know about 5-10% of the cloud applications that are being used within their organization. This shadow IT is ripping holes in their security strategies. In fact, a recent Forrester study cited that 43% of respondents said they believed shadow IT practices were major threats to their respective organizations. […]

July 7, 2014

DATA CENTER

Governing the World of Many Clouds with Cisco Cloud Consumption Optimization Service

2 min read

CIOs face a scary reality. They only know about 5-10% of the cloud applications that are being used within their organization. This shadow IT is ripping holes in their security strategies. In fact, a recent Forrester study cited that 43% of respondents said they believed shadow IT practices were major threats to their respective organizations. […]

May 30, 2014

DATA CENTER

Governing the New Wild West….The World of Many Clouds

3 min read

In many ways, the race to the cloud resembles the Wild West of the 1800s. The urgency with which business groups are rushing to adopt cloud services, often without IT involvement, resembles the race out to the western US of those looking for gold. With our customer engagements, we have found that there are 5-10 […]

May 14, 2014

SECURITY

Protect Yourself Against the Next Security Flaw in the Cloud—Understand Shadow IT

2 min read

Recently, a bug in Internet Explorer made it possible for hackers to take over a user’s computer causing government agencies to suggest using a different browser. The Heartbleed flaw opened the door for encrypted data to be intercepted. These latest challenges highlight one thing inherent to any application—whether on premise or in the cloud—it is […]

January 31, 2014

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SECURITY

Beyond Data Security…Five Biggest Risks of Shadow Cloud IT Services

4 min read

About two years ago, I went into a customer workshop on private cloud. As we were introducing ourselves around the table, the CIO turned to me with a pained expression and said, “Bob I have a different problem. My CFO and CEO just asked me if I knew how many of our users were accessing […]