integration

July 14, 2017

GOVERNMENT

Low Price Can Be Expensive

7 min read

As IT budgets shrink and cyber threats increase, IT strains to reduce procurement costs while remaining agile and vigilant. Efforts to commoditize IT often fail to account for post-procurement costs.

June 6, 2016

GOVERNMENT

Integration, Consolidation, Automation: Why Cisco Cyber Solutions are Essential for CDM

2 min read

Cybersecurity for the federal government is increasingly complex. More and more important data is being stored or shared using the Internet, and at the same time, hacks and other cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated and frequent. Agencies need to stay on the cutting-edge of cyber solutions to ensure critical citizen data and military information are […]

April 5, 2016

CLOUD

Guest Blog: Never Over or Underestimate Cloud Security, Integration or APIs

3 min read

Today’s Guest Blog comes to us courtesy of Dante Orsini, SVP of Business Development at iland. Taking advantage of all that the cloud has to offer is no small order. That’s because extending your on-premise data center resources into the cloud completely changes how you scale performance, assure reliability, secure data and applications, and manage […]

5 Themes We Heard at DistribuTECH 2016

2 min read

I just got back from the 26th year of DistribuTECH, the largest annual Electric Utility Industry conference. The theme was “Focused on the Future” and the industry met to participate in sessions on working through the challenges of increasing the amount of power from renewable resources, managing the deployment of Distributed Energy Resources, and understanding […]

January 13, 2016

NETWORKING

Step into the IT Fast Lane with Automated Integration

3 min read

Last month, Japan’s Kenichi Ito broke the world record for the 100 meter dash – running on all fours – with a time of 15.71 seconds. Known as...

Service-Oriented Everything and Digitization of Your Business

4 min read

The next big phase of the Internet is the race toward digitization, which brings together people, processes, data, and things in new, more productive ways. In this emerging hyper-distributed digital world, connectivity is even more vital than ever before. Companies that are going to thrive and realize new opportunities will be the ones that adopt […]

A New Approach to Connect Processes in a Hyper-distributed World

3 min read

In a recent blog  written by Mala Anand, she discussed how hyper-distribution of assets in organizations is creating demands for new insights and enabling new interactions and experiences across every industry. Mala shared how our hyper-distributed world has created remote centers of data which require access by people and processes within and beyond your organization. […]

April 11, 2015

HEALTHCARE

Breaking the Silos and Connecting the Unconnected

2 min read

In the past, enterprise architecture was designed to be silos – Data, Voice, Clinical and many more. Demarcation, Control and Ownership was given special emphasis. IT departments ruled and decided what, when, how systems were procured, installed and operated. As market transitions happened and new consumption models became available, the line of business started procuring […]

January 20, 2015

DATA CENTER

Building Innovation: Achieve Fast IT with Customers

2 min read

Recently I had the privilege to exchange thoughts at a roundtable discussion about the Future of Managed Services with our strategic partner Presidio. I would like to share some highlights from that dynamic dialogue. We all agreed, the services industry overall is heading to a tipping point. Managed services are becoming more attractive to IT, […]