IDC

March 6, 2017

CLOUD

Clouds Gather (In a Good Way) at Cisco Live Berlin

3 min read

Berlin. Europe’s Europe. Where someone thought of doing this so you can smile when paying to park your car: Where this was also happening the week before the last: In other words, the first Cisco Live for 2017 (and unsurprisingly the subject of this post). But before I get into the details of the event, […]

March 2, 2017

HEALTHCARE

IDC Vendor Spotlight: Cisco Healthcare

1 min read

Digital transformation plays a crucial role for healthcare organizations amidst new business models and market pressures. Read about Cisco Healthcare's industry leading efforts in the IDC Vendor Spotlight.

February 28, 2017

CLOUD

Millennials About To Rock…The Cloud Salutes You!

5 min read

Millennials are often judged as being ‘lazy, impatient and self-entitled.’ We want it all and we want it now (myself included!) But is that really a bad thing? Look at all the innovations that our impatience and need for convenience has sparked. The moment we wake up, we check our mails, read the day’s news and pay our bills all from the convenience of our smart phones. We ask Alexa to book us an Uber, grab our morning cuppa on the way to work, and pay for it all with our phone or even our watch. If there ever was a time when impatience was rewarded, it is now!

February 15, 2017

CLOUD

Cisco Live Berlin 2017: It’s All About You (and the Cloud)

5 min read

Cisco Live is about you. This is your time to learn, network, share insights and acquire hands on experience with our solutions in the DevNet Zone. Cisco Live features distinct programs enabling you to build a personalized agenda mapped to your individual interests. And .. as you would expect, one of the many technology tracks we feature is about Cloud.

February 14, 2017

NETWORKING

SD-WAN is Mission-Critical – Don’t Leave Critical Functions Shortchanged

2 min read

There is justifiably a great deal of hype around the rise of Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN). Organizations are becoming more digitized and increasingly rely upon a mixture of public and private cloud-based applications for day-to-day functions

February 1, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud’s Challenges and Opportunities for IT Pros

3 min read

A recent IDC FutureScape on the future of the cloud market forecasts that 65 percent of organizations’ IT assets will be offsite, in co-located, hosting and cloud data centers by 2018. One-third of IT staff will be working at third-party service providers.

January 25, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Quantifying the Benefits of Network Transformation

3 min read

We put IDC in touch with eight trailblazers who are using Cisco DNA to transform their business. Read my favorite highlights from the research and results.

January 3, 2017

NETWORKING

2017 Predictions for SD-WAN (#sdwan)

2 min read

SD-WAN adoption is increasing and the market is estimated to grow to between $6B and $1.24B by 2020. Why? Here are three key trends that will be impacting the branch and WAN in 2017.

November 29, 2016

CLOUD

A Resilient Cloud Strategy: Standardize or Diversify?

3 min read

Over the past few years, I have seen IT organizations adopt cloud in very different ways. Some organizations prefer to standardize their cloud infrastructure to drive efficiencies in their data centers. As a result, they eventually reduce the number of suppliers across their entire IT value chain. Conversely, other organizations adopt a ‘best of breed’ […]