Cisco cloud

November 11, 2014

DATA CENTER

Lunch is on Us – Unlocking the Potential of a Well Balanced Secure Hybrid IT Strategy

2 min read

Much like the MPG argument when comparing diesel engines versus regular gas engines, and hybrid gas/electric versus pure plug-in electric vehicles, similarly valid arguments can be made for any combination of IT strategies: the traditional on-premise data center and private clouds, versus IT out-sourced. What IT strategy you chose will no doubt come down to what […]

September 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

Easing the Transition to the Cloud: Cisco Capital Earmarks $1 Billion in Financing

3 min read

Guest Blog Post by Krisine A. Snow, President, Cisco Capital The pressure for businesses to quickly adapt and innovate—to capitalize on new market opportunities and stay ahead of the competition—is increasing to achieve their business goals. And it is being felt not only by IT organizations, but by entire companies as businesses rely more and […]

September 29, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Intercloud, The Next Internet Starts Here

4 min read

Thirty years ago, two engineers – Cisco’s founders – solved a connectivity problem between two network islands on the Stanford University campus, and paved the way for three dramatic decades of Internet-driven innovation. Today, there’s hardly an aspect of our lives that isn’t touched by the Internet. For large and mid-size enterprises, government and education, […]

August 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

Application Enablement and Innovation Leveraging Linux Containers

2 min read

Linux containers and Docker are poised to radically change the way applications are built, shipped, deployed, and instantiated. They accelerate application delivery by making it easy to package the dependencies along with the application. That means that a single containerized application can operate in different development, test and production environments and platforms (physical and virtual). […]

August 25, 2014

DATA CENTER

Business Continuity and Workload Mobility for Private Cloud (Cisco Validated Design-Part1)

4 min read

As a Cloud Architect, I’ve had the privilege to work with CTOs and CIOs across the globe to uncover the key factors driving Business Continuity and Workload Mobility across their cloud infrastructures. We’ve worked with enterprises, large and small, and service providers to answer their top five concerns in our new Business Continuity and Workload Mobility solution for […]

July 28, 2014

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Banking in the InterCloud: Delivering Additional Computing and Storage

2 min read

Financial Services firms are being challenged and forced to change the way that their applications, information, content, compute, storage, and network resources are deployed and consumed. It is a multi-dimensional issue that is forcing financial services firms to change of how IT is delivered. They are beginning to look for ways to stretch their data […]

June 18, 2014

DATA CENTER

Finally, a hybrid cloud that makes both users and IT happy!

2 min read

Two years back, I disparaged hybrid clouds in my blog: “Why Hybrid Clouds Look Like my Grandma’s Network”. Since then the pain and necessity of many clouds in business environment has become acute. I see a great similarity between Hybrid Clouds and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon that has become well-accepted in today’s organization. […]

May 9, 2014

DATA CENTER

IT Needs a Promotion to Cloud Services Broker

3 min read

  Is your IT department currently acting as a Cloud services broker?And what exactly is a Cloud services broker? As our world of many clouds continues to evolve, increased opportunities exist for IT departments to move from the traditional “siloed” working environments to play a more critical role in corporate planning strategies. Aligning IT and […]