Identifying and Solving the Cloud Sprawl Problem
An interesting read for me one day last week was the Wall Street Journal reporting on the exploding yet ungoverned use of cloud services by employees in just...
Stephen Speirs
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Your Design Engineers Need Support and ‘Expertise on Tap’ Too!
If you are involved in designing, supporting or managing a data center, you will undoubtedly rely on technical support services from one or more vendors. Running your data center, there...
Part 3 – SDN Questions to Ask at the Gartner Data Center Conference
My final observation from my days at the London Gartner Data Center Conference is related to SDN and ease of network management – or otherwise. Hopefully this discussion will give...
Part 2 – SDN Questions to Ask at the Gartner Data Center Conference
As I mentioned in yesterday's blog, last week I attended the Gartner Data Center Conference in London. I came out of the conference with some questions...
SDN Questions to Ask at the Gartner Data Center Conference
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Gartner Data Center conference in London. I attended 3 different sessions on SDN-related topics. Here are some...
The Top 5 OpenStack Adoption Challenges – View from Cisco Services’ Experts
OpenStack is gaining increasing industry attention and, while it can deliver huge...
Observations from London SDN Conference… “Wait, it’s coming…” … But Can You Afford T …
Last week I spent some time at the “Software Defined Networking 2014” conference in London. It’s a relatively small conference I would say however given the growing interest in SDN and rapid progress of the technology it’s always good to hear alternative viewpoints and experiences. And I certainly found the previous conference here in December […]
Cisco, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and My Day in the Queen’s Baton Relay
It’s an exciting year for Scotland, with several very high profile events happening. On our doorstep in July is the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games – what we call “Glasgow 2014” – which, after the Olympics and World (soccer) Cup, is the third largest multi-nation sports event in the world. (The Commonwealth Games is sporting celebration among the 53 member […]
Delivering Business Outcomes: When Did You Last Reduce Time To Market?
Working in the Data Center and Cloud Professional Services team in Cisco on cloud and software defined networking, I am sometimes asked "What do...