cloud orchestration

October 24, 2016

DATA CENTER

Monday Morning Sure Looks Fine

1 min read

You’re the head of IT facing the start of another week.   Another set of challenges.  Application teams going around IT.   Business teams expecting near-instant service.  Your company is growing fast.  Way beyond your ability to plan — let alone respond. You may think this is far-fetched.  I speak with a lot of customers and this […]

May 5, 2016

CLOUD

Self-Heal Your OpenStack Control Plane

12 min read

We went to Austin for BBQ, and an OpenStack Summit broke out… …OK, maybe that’s not entirely true, but the BBQ was good. When we started this journey less than 5 weeks ago in preparation for the Austin OpenStack Summit, we’d already collectively had many OpenStack deployments under our belts, both manually deployed and through […]

January 12, 2016

DATA CENTER

Your New Year’s Resolution for 2016: Start with a Cisco Domain Ten Workshop

2 min read

A few years ago, I wrote a series of blogs on Cisco’s Domain Ten(SM)  framework.  Since then, we’ve used this simple yet powerful analysis tool to help guide many customers on data center and IT transformation projects.  I personally found it quite notable that leading market analyst firm IDC, recognizing Cisco as the worldwide leader […]

May 27, 2015

DATA CENTER

Deliver Infrastructure at the Speed of Need

2 min read

Smart devices give us access to information and services at the speed of need. But they have conditioned us to expect anything and everything faster — and that includes IT services. This expectation for speed coupled with modern technology is driving IT innovation.  Yet, in most organizations, delivery of consistent infrastructure to application or business […]

January 26, 2014

DATA CENTER

Data Center and Cloud Management Software at Cisco Live Milan

3 min read

Ciao! The data center and cloud management software team is in Milan this week to showcase our Unified Management solutions in the Data Center and Cloud booth as well as the Cisco ONE Platform booth at our annual Cisco Live customer event in Europe. In particular, we’ll be showcasing new software releases including Cisco UCS […]