We Won!! I’m pleased to announce the Cisco IT Any Device team beat 50 companies to win the “Best Business Computing Environment” at the 2014 IDG CITE awards in San Francisco. The Any Device team manage, secure, and support over 196,000 desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones including 70,000 BYO devices.
Tags: any device, byod, Cisco IT, coc-business-of-it, mobility
If someone asked you how to build a new IT organization from the ground up, what would you advise? A Cisco Sales employee asked me that very question last week. Her global customer had recently spun off a new regional group which was planning to do just that –build a completely new IT enterprise organization, with new IT infrastructure, new IT architecture, and new IT processes. She asked me if there were any Cisco IT best practices I could recommend to their newly-named CIO.
Tags: cloud, coc-business-of-it, collaboration, Fleet Management, IaaS, infrastructure upgrade, it best practices, it process, itaaso, itom, mobility, vendor management, vsem
Earlier this month, we received some great news. Cisco ranked 25th on the InformationWeek Elite top 100 leading-edge IT organizations. Our ranking is a clear result of how we are embracing mobility, analytics, and cloud technologies to cut costs, boost productivity, and essentially, provide the best possible user experience. A prime example of how we are taking great strides in adopting the consumerization of IT is eStore. Read More »
Tags: Cisco IT, cisco on cisco, coc-business-of-it, eStore, InformationWeek Elite, inside cisco it
When sizing clusters for devices in our Identity Services Engine (ISE) deployment, Cisco IT uses a “3+1” formula: For every person we assume three devices (laptop, smartphone, and a tablet) plus one device in the background (security camera, printer, network access device, etc.). In a company the size of Cisco, with roughly 80,000 employees, the math is simple: Read More »
Tags: capacity management, Cisco IT, coc-security, Identity Services Engine, IoE, ISE, security
We’ve been hard at work over the last few months looking at how the Cisco on Cisco team connects with our customers and the value we bring. After sifting through analytics, interviewing our customers, and countless late nights, we’re happy to announce our new tagline: Read More »
Tags: business of it, Cisco, Cisco IT, cisco on cisco, dogfood, dogfooding, IT
