Cisco Services

August 6, 2014

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged S6|Ep3: Cisco Virtual Application Container Services

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In this week's lightning episode of Engineers Unplugged, Nisarg Shah and Eric Charlesworth introduce a new product, Cisco Virtual Application Container Services. What does this mean? Watch and see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilgjFLj5wio...

July 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

Steps to Overcome the Business Risks of Cloud Services

3 min read

Do any web search on the inhibitors of moving to cloud and you’ll find a primary challenge rises to the top—business risk. The benefits of cloud often outweigh risks,...

July 25, 2014

DATA CENTER

IT Transformation: Avoiding Pitfalls

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In the last two blogs, I talked about the reasons for IT Transformation, understanding Enterprise Environment and how to effectively set management goals. As more and more companies...

July 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

IT Transformation: Understanding environment and business goals

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In my last blog, I established reasons behind today’s need for IT Transformation. We know that CIOs hope to cut their budget in half, but this will be...

July 17, 2014

DATA CENTER

IT Transformation: Strategizing for Cost Saving and Investing for Business Enablement

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IT organizations face several challenges: a globalizing economy, the increasing cost of IT ownership, business users directly going to public Cloud providers, the difficulty of operating complex environments, effectively enabling...

July 7, 2014

DATA CENTER

Governing the World of Many Clouds with Cisco Cloud Consumption Optimization Service

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CIOs face a scary reality. They only know about 5-10% of the cloud applications that are being used within their organization. This shadow IT is ripping holes in their security strategies. In fact, a recent Forrester study cited that 43% of respondents said they believed shadow IT practices were major threats to their respective organizations. […]

June 26, 2014

DATA CENTER

Observations from London SDN Conference… “Wait, it’s coming…” … But Can You Afford T …

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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 […]

June 23, 2014

SECURITY

Enhance Your Security Investment with Security Optimization Service

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Many organizations have the same challenges when it comes to security: blurring boundaries, more and more organized cybercrimes, difficulty in finding and retaining technical talent, and keeping up-to-date with the latest security threats and tools. In my inaugural blog, I’d like to tell you about one useful offering: the Security Optimization Service (SOS) from Cisco […]