InterCloud

January 21, 2015

DATA CENTER

What’s Inside Your Cloud?

1 min read

One of the key benefits of moving to the cloud is that someone else–your service provider–takes care of the day-to-day management of your technology.  You can focus on adding value at a higher level. Scale capacity and increase your company’s productivity by introducing new capabilities such as collaboration applications or desktop-as-a-service. Unfortunately, not all clouds […]

January 12, 2015

DATA CENTER

Could Big Data and Cloud go together?

3 min read

In today’s era of increasing connectivity, data is getting generated in vast proportions.  Moreover, it is also important to be able to generate insights from it quickly and act accordingly.  Gone are the days when one would move data into a data warehouse and then extract insights from it to act at a later date.  […]

January 8, 2015

DATA CENTER

Where is Cisco Data Virtualization Going in 2015?

3 min read

Welcome to 2015! If you are like me, the New Year is a great opportunity to assess where I am at and where I am going.  So let’s do that for Cisco Data Virtualization. 2014 – A Year of Exciting New Products Before looking ahead at 2015, let’s first take a look at 2014 highlights. […]

December 11, 2014

PARTNER

Cloud Builders Monetize Intercloud by Helping Customers Create Hybrid IT

1 min read

If you had a chance to check out the Cisco Global Cloud Index, it’s no real surprise that data center traffic will nearly triple over the next five years and cloud traffic will nearly quadruple.

November 28, 2014

GOVERNMENT

Understand how the Intercloud elegantly meets Public Sector IT requirements

2 min read

Public Sector IT organisations are weary of vendor lock-in. And rightfully so: it is hard to buy cloud services from any supplier you choose and then freely manage these services as if they were part of your own extended private cloud. Main reason: lack of ability to connect different clouds: private, partner, public, etc. Luckily, this barrier […]

November 16, 2014

DATA CENTER

Going Native with OpenStack Centric Applications: Overview

2 min read

Cloud infrastructure is useless without applications running atop, providing business services and solving customer needs. So, as applications ascend to the throne as the rightful king of cloud, focus sharpens on their support within OpenStack-based Cisco Intercloud. With this focus, let’s walk through a survey of components and projects supporting applications in OpenStack, understanding what a day in […]

October 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

A Whole New Face to Cloud

1 min read

Cisco is committed to leading the industry in bringing innovation and value to its customers through the cloud.  Through Cisco Powered, Cisco has driven high standards for cloud services, making enterprise-class performance and reliability the baseline across the industry.  With the recent announcement of over 30 Intercloud partners, Cisco is putting a whole new face […]

October 23, 2014

GOVERNMENT

A New Partnership for OpenStack

1 min read

What happens when the market leader in cloud infrastructure partners with an open source expert? We witness a very unique opportunity for disruption. Recently, Cisco and Red Hat announced an integrated infrastructure for OpenStack-based cloud deployments. OpenStack is a collaborationf developers and cloud computing technologists aimed at creating new, scalable solutions. This partnership will target […]

September 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

Easing the Transition to the Cloud: Cisco Capital Earmarks $1 Billion in Financing

3 min read

Guest Blog Post by Krisine A. Snow, President, Cisco Capital The pressure for businesses to quickly adapt and innovate—to capitalize on new market opportunities and stay ahead of the competition—is increasing to achieve their business goals. And it is being felt not only by IT organizations, but by entire companies as businesses rely more and […]