Cloud Computing

April 20, 2015

DATA CENTER

Interop 2015 : ITD is Best of Interop finalist

1 min read

  ITD (Intelligent Traffic Director) has been selected in Top 3 finalists in the Best of Interop 2015 Data Center category. ITD Delivers: $2 Billion TAM disruptive technology: This technology innovation disrupts today’s $2 Billion TAM for load-balancers, redirection and clustering solutions 100x Scale improvement: The high-end load-balancers today can handle about 200Gbps traffic. ITD can load-balance 20Tbps […]

April 16, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco ITD is Best of Interop 2015 Finalist

1 min read

Transforming Cisco switches into highly scalable zero latency load balancers! Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) does exactly that and much more! Cisco ITD  has been selected as Best of Interop 2015 finalist in the Data Center Category. Finalists were chosen from nine categories including Data Center, Mobility, SDN and Cloud Technologies. Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD)  is an […]

March 30, 2015

CLOUD

Security-as-a-Feature

3 min read

Some of you may remember Marathon Man, starring Lawrence Olivier as the evil Nazi dentist Dr. Christian Szell, and Dustin Hoffman as a graduate student nicknamed Babe. Szell has come to New York from his South American jungle hideaway to retrieve a cache of diamonds, but he’s not sure he won’t be walking into a […]

March 25, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

IoT, from Cloud to Fog Computing

6 min read

Introduction Nowadays, there are billions of devices connected to the Internet, and this has led to some advances in the Electronics and Telecommunication technology developments in recent years which resulted in various kinds of very powerful devices with communication and networking capabilities that have attracted the industries to adopt this technology into their daily business […]

March 23, 2015

CLOUD

ISVs Moving to the Cloud – New Partners

4 min read

In my previous Cisco Blog post, I discussed the business models an ISV can deploy in moving to the...

March 19, 2015

CLOUD

Building a Successful Hybrid Cloud That Delivers Flexibility, Choice and Control

2 min read

The debate about whether businesses need hybrid clouds is over. Technology executives see value in public clouds because they offer speed, economics, and scale that are very hard to achieve in a private cloud environment. On the other hand, private clouds offer control, data sovereignty, and security. Businesses need both, which means they need hybrid […]

March 16, 2015

CLOUD

Traditional ISVs – Transform your Business into the World of Cloud Computing

3 min read

If you’re a traditional on-premises software company, you’re in the right place. Today, I will talk about how cloud computing can transform your business. In a subsequent Cisco Blog, I’ll discuss the implication this move will have on your sales and distribution strategy. Model One Business Model Traditional software companies have operated in a Model […]

March 9, 2015

CLOUD

State of the Cloud: A Case Study of One Company’s Journey

2 min read

People often ask me: “Is cloud computing really being adopted?” Over the years, I’ve talked to large and small companies to find out the state of the art in their...

March 2, 2015

DATA CENTER

Seven Software Business Models – Part 2

5 min read

Many years ago I found myself talking to venture capitalists about the differences between SaaS, outsourcing, ASPs, MSPs, online applications; etc. Also I noticed that my Stanford students had little understanding of the economics of software, so I developed the idea of seven business models to cover everything in the software business, and remove the […]