CliQr

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Digital transformation is happening NOW.   Your smartphone is your bank branch.   Your mouse and PC are quickly replacing brick and mortar stores. As consumers, we have the tendency to seek alternatives when we don’t get want we want, when we want it. If you’re in IT, you are already feeling the pain. The modern […]

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The idea of ‘one size fits all’ never worked for me. And it certainly does not work for picking a cloud vendor. CliQr has become Cisco CloudCenter and you will love how easy this is making things.

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There has been a revolutionary change in the conversation over IT’s role within your business.  Once centered on reducing costs, today’s conversation centers on how IT can move with greater speed and flexibility.  Why the change? The answer is simple– the digitization of business.   You don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to notice that […]

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Cloud platforms are increasingly a viable option for a growing set of enterprise applications and workloads.   Application teams are uncompromising in their desire to build and deploy new applications into public cloud environments that deliver speed and choice. Industry analysts tell us that almost 50% of enterprise organizations are starting to build private clouds which […]

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Every day I talk with customers who comment how they need to move with greater speed and flexibility. Automation is required to decrease time-to-market and provide flexible workload placement into hybrid environments.   One technique to deliver speed and flexibility is to transform the modeling, deployment and life cycle processes to deliver applications. Cisco CloudCenter (CliQr) […]

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When talking with customers, it is rare when I encounter one who is “all in” with private or “all-in” with public cloud.   Customers have come to realize that a single platform cannot deliver all the capabilities required by application, business and IT teams.  Developers want self-service and fast access to cloud infrastructure.  IT needs control […]

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IT Service Management meets Hybrid IT Borrowing the signature song from the Lego Movie for an enterprise service management blog post is a stretch, but I couldn’t resist. If you’ve seen the Lego Movie you’ll know that the song is extremely catchy, you can’t stop singing “Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you’re part of a team”. The […]

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Cloud is now a fundamental part of IT landscapes.  Enterprise and IT executives deal with large numbers of applications that are being versioned faster than ever before. Running IT is increasingly challenged to support line-of-business needs. To learn how to simplify application lifecycle management across multiple data centers, private clouds, managed private clouds, and public […]

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“Enterprises won’t need systems integration and professional services if they shut down their IT Operations and move to the cloud.” – Light Reading, May 31, 2016 Without any context, that...