Cisco Cloud Consumption at Cisco Live!
Cloud sprawl is a huge, growing challenge. On average, large companies use 645 individual cloud services, which has grown 17% in just six months. What’s crazy is when you ask...
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Search Analytics Across Hybrid Cloud: Powered by Cisco Intercloud Fabric and Cisco UCS
Cisco Intercloud Fabric simplifies the process of securely extending your data center networks from your private cloud to a public or provider-hosted cloud. One of its many applications is data life-cycle management especially in the emerging Big Data
Interview with Piston’s Christopher MacGown
With the big news today, it seems like a good time to repost this, from the Metacloud blog: Piston Cloud co-founder and CTO Christopher MacGown has been involved with OpenStack since the very beginning. He was at Rackspace when they switched from Ruby
Meeting the demand for Cloud technology skills
What makes the cloud such an attractive option for enterprises? The cloud empowers IT to act as a broker of business critical IT services. It helps the organization become a...
Dinner as a Service (DaaS) – or a just better path to the cloud?
I’ll be the first to admit that I am not a cloud expert by any means: not as a private pilot or marketing professional working in high tech.. But I do know this Cloud computing can be intimidating – just as real clouds are intimidating to any
On-Demand Private Cloud: How to Cut CapEx, Free Up Resources, and Boost Business Agility
Today, enterprises need greater business agility and faster time-to-market for applications. That’s why, in many instances, they are building their own private clouds or adopting on-demand private cloud. Companies that are most suited to building
Cisco Intercloud Services and Why the Network Matters
Cisco Intercloud Services and Why the Network Matters I’d like to open by restating a position on Cloud: Cloud is only in its very infancy in terms of adoption. Despite all the hype in market, largely created by the marketing of the over-the-top
Three Things I Learned at the OpenStack Summit: Day 4
You should never admit that you don’t watch Star Trek.
Three Things I Learned at the OpenStack Summit – Day 3
Want to liven up a boring conversation? Bring up OpenStack appliances. That will get people talking. In an enthusiastic manner. With vigorously-defended opinions. The appliances talk was by far the most interesting one I went to all day. And you’d