IT

Building an Experience-Centric Network

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By Melissa Zelyez, Cisco Marketing Manager Why are 50% of all businesses open to changing cloud providers? Service providers can be the top choice, if they prepare now… Today most businesses currently using cloud services do so through cloud providers, value-added resellers (VAR), system integrators, and other vendors; not through direct relationships with service providers. […]

Data Value Chains: Making Data Dance for Your Business

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We all deal with massive amounts of data in our day-to-day lives. Sometimes it may feel like we’re sinking under the weight of that avalanche. Meanwhile there is so much talk about Big Data, analytics and the Internet of Things, one wonders if there is more volume, velocity and variety in talking about Big Data […]

Data is Only Valuable if You Can Quickly Get to It

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Data continues to explode and is becoming increasingly important to achieve business success.  Companies rely on their data to make them smarter, more productive, and better decision makers. Advances in data management, business intelligence and analytics have improved organizational performance, but with data growing everywhere, it is becoming harder to get to the data and […]

March 23, 2016

NETWORKING

How Will You Transform Your Network into a Digital Platform?

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As long as I’ve been in this business, I’m still amazed by today’s technology and all of its new and exciting possibilities. There are smartphone apps that enable schools to send reports on your kids’ daily progress. There are apps to help you track your physical activity. Netflix dynamically analyzes terabytes of data to give […]

Cisco Launches NC4ME with IT Awareness Days in North Carolina

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Earlier this month, Cisco launched the IT Component of North Carolina for Military Employment (NC4ME), hosting two IT Awareness Days at Camp Lejuene and Fort Bragg in North Carolina. More than 120 transitioning or recently transitioned Service members attended the events, where they learned about North Carolina’s growing IT industry. Service members have the technical […]

Join Us for the Women of Impact 2016 Conference on March 10th

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The Women of Impact Conference is designed for women in IT, to give us a place to network and motivate one another. We unite women from all over the world...

November 13, 2015

DATA CENTER

#CiscoACI #CiscoChat- Cisco SDN in the Data Center

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Digital transformation is changing the world as technology continues to play a central role in today’s business strategy. By helping to reach more customers, offer differentiated services, and grow the business, the relevance of IT is stronger than ever. Customers want to deploy services fast, at scale, at the lowest cost possible. Cisco’s SDN strategy […]

August 4, 2015

CLOUD

Bimodal IT Doesn’t Mean “No Governance”

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In my last post, I discussed Bimodal IT and how some enterprises are adopting it as a way to manage the tradeoffs between “keeping the lights on” and business agility. That’s not to say it’s easy. Operating bi-modally still requires proper planning and governance. And there are several reasons why.

July 31, 2015

CLOUD

Serving up cloud options just got easier

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Got cloud?  It’s no secret that implementing cloud technologies allows IT to rapidly react and dynamically deliver new services to any business or organization almost instantly. In an ideal world,...