Elastic Compute Delivers Real Cost Savings
Workloads are forecasted to grow 26% over the next three years. Yet the business is only funding increases of 3% to IT budgets. How will your business address this gap?
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Birthdays. Cisco Style.
We all have birthdays – but not all birthdays are celebrated the Cisco way. One of the perks of being a Cisco employee is that the company recognizes that your...
Solving the Security Patchwork Problem
Hackers today make it their job to understand your security technologies and how to exploit the gaps between them. And that’s the problem – there are a lot of gaps. In our own discussions with IT security pros, it isn’t unusual to find organizations
Tales of a Fourth-Grade Something: Big Data with Cisco & Splunk at .conf & Strata
Someone at a meeting recently told me how cool it was that big data was finally moving out of the early adopter phase. He’s lucky I wasn’t drinking a beverage at the time, or he might have ended up wearing it. I’m accused of being
Q&A: Cisco IT’s Lessons Learned In Assessing the Risk of New Cloud Services
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
Enable Automated Big Data Workloads with Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
In our previous big data blogs, a number of my Cisco associates have talked about the right infrastructure, the right sizing, the right integrated infrastructure management and the right provisioning and orchestration for your clusters. But, to gain
The eStore Vision Has Become a Reality! A Single Storefront for IT Services
Today’s blog post is by a guest author, Adel du Toit, who is currently spearheading the effort by Cisco’s internal IT organization to deliver IT-as-a-Service internally, dubbed the Cisco IT “eStore.” Recently, the eStore team took home multiple
Four More Awards for the Cisco IT Team and Cisco Prime Service Catalog
The Cisco IT internal implementation of Cisco Prime Service Catalog, dubbed the Cisco IT “eStore”, is no stranger to awards. Earlier this year, the Cisco IT eStore ranked in the InformationWeek Elite 100 and was nominated a finalist for the