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Live #Ciscochat Feb 23rd: Cyber attacks ahead. Are you ready?
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As Mike Riegel pointed out in his recent blog, ‘Financial services is the prime example of an IT-intensive industry.’ Financial institutions rely on consistent technology and innovation to compete...
Composable Infrastructure – Beyond Blade and Rack Servers
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Guest Blogger: Jed Scaramella, IDC Research Director, Servers and Datacenters Over the past several months Cisco, Dell, HP and other vendors have introduced a new category of servers called composable infrastructure. These subsystems are based on disaggregated server architecture. In a new video series and an IDC paper I explain what is driving the […]
Cloud Adoption Today: A View of Cloud Maturity for IT Organizations
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By Robert Mahowald, IDC Program Vice President, SaaS and Cloud Services We recently surveyed more than 3,450 executive-level IT decisionmakers in 17 countries to find out their future plans and current state of cloud adoption. What we discovered is pretty remarkable. According to IDC’s CloudView Survey, 57% of organizations are already using or planning to […]
Cisco Delivers Improved Lync Interoperability
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Did you know that Lync is a fully supported client in Cisco Collaboration Meeting Room (Cisco CMR) meetings. When we say interoperability we mean it. Even when that means supporting proprietary protocols. For instance, to ensure that Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business users can fully experience the power of Cisco conferencing. IDC released the IDC MarketScape: […]
Road Trip! Cisco and Microsoft are going on a world tour!
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We will be in Dallas, London, New York, Paris, San Jose, and Toronto the next two months. If you are in the area, register and come learn more about transforming your data centers to take advantage of the newest Cisco infrastructure solutions along with Microsoft’s Cloud OS and workloads. Yesterday’s data centers cannot keep up […]
All signs point to one thing: if you aren’t talking to your customers about cloud services, your competition probably …
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According to a new IDC white paper, sponsored by Cisco, "Enabling Partner Value in the Cloud Economy", 68 percent of companies with more than 1,000 employees are using some form of cloud or plan to implement cloud within the next 12 months.
The Time for Desktop as a Service is Now
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A new whitepaper from IDC, “The Workspace-as-a-Service Opportunity: Why Now is the Time for Desktop as a Service” is a must-read for any organization facing the challenge of delivering applications and services to employees on mobile devices. According to IDC, corporate-liable smartphone shipments will reach 110 million units in 2014. In comparison, employee-liable smartphone shipments […]
2015 Manufacturing Industry Predictions
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What’s new and trending for the industry? Well, predictions for the upcoming year as a motif is certainly not new but is definitely trending, considering the deluge of pundits concentrating...
Straight Talk About Cloud: 20 Providers and What They Think You Want
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There’s a lot of talk about cloud, and for good reason. According to a new white paper from IDC, 68% of companies with more than 1,000 employees are using some form of cloud or plan to implement cloud within the next 12 months. In addition, these companies adopting cloud expect to spend 54% of their […]
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