In the previous post we described the benefit of using Application Automation in conjunction with Network Analytics in the Data Centre, a Public Cloud or both. We described two solutions from Cisco that offer great value individually, and we also explained how they can multiply their power when used together in an integrated way. This […]
A very common goal for software designers and security administrators is to get to a Secure Zero-Trust model in an Application-Centric world. They absolutely need to avoid malicious or accidental outages, data leaks and performance degradation. However this can be very difficult to achieve sometimes, due to the complexity of distributed architectures and the coexistence […]
IT Governance is all about having a system that determines who gets to make decisions. IT Controls provide a framework to make sure things are done a certain way.
Leading cloud and IT services provider in the Netherlands, Uniserver, is using Cisco Virtual Topology System (VTS), to make its data center simpler, more flexible, and much more responsive to customer needs.
Customers want it fast. They don’t want to wait for human intervention to get what they want, when they want it. They want resolution at the click of a button. The pace of change is increasing and customer behavior is pushing significant transformation in business models. 10 years ago, who would have imagined that Amazon […]
Traditional telco operations support systems (OSS) have tended to focus on point solutions that provide specific functions in their own attempt to automate networks. However, this approach has often failed to live up to its promise.
Modern companies need to move quick. And to do so, they need things to be streamlined. From hosting 40,000 people at a big game, to churning out thousands of newspapers hot-off-the-press, to delivering millions of pizzas right on time. To keep up, companies need an integrated solution powering their IT that’s fast…REALLY fast. Learn how […]
Chew on this: Joshua McKenty started OpenStack at NASA. That’s right—started OpenStack at NASA. Then he started Piston, a company that sold an OpenStack distribution, which Cisco eventually bought. Now he works as the Field CTO at Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and boy does he have a lot of interesting things to say about the current […]
At some point in this series, either Function-as-a-Service 101: What is It? or Function-as-a-Services 201: Common Architectures, you might have said to yourself, “Wait a minute, Cisco sells servers so why are you talking about serverless technologies?” Even keeping in mind the oxymoronic details discussed in the 101 post that there are actually servers still […]
