ITaaS
Data Security Through the Cloud [summary]
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Is the combination of cloud computing and mobility a perfect storm of security threats? Actually, yes. And you should prepare for them as if there is a storm coming. As businesses become increasingly mobile, so does sensitive data. In fact, in a recent survey conducted by ESG, 31% of security professionals say that the biggest […]
Data Security Through the Cloud
1 min read
Is the combination of cloud computing and mobility a perfect storm of security threats? Actually, yes. And you should prepare for them as if there is a storm coming. As businesses become increasingly mobile, so does sensitive data. In fact, in a recent survey conducted by ESG, 31% of security professionals say that the biggest […]
CIO or IT Services Broker?
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In the heart of the overall shift from cloud computing as an isolated project to a central IT strategy, a particular tenet is reigning supreme: hybrid IT strategies. As cloud computing continues to evolve, new technologies are emerging to support the dynamic creation of cloud services. CIOs are increasingly feeling the need to deal with […]
The Cisco IT Story: ITaaS with Cisco Prime Service Catalog
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We had some exciting sessions featuring Cisco Prime Service Catalog at Cisco Live Milan a few weeks ago. In case you missed it, we featured two great customer case studies. One of them was Steria, a multinational service provider headquartered in France who has deployed Cisco Prime Service Catalog and FlexPod for their cloud services […]
IT – The rapid pace of changes we can expect in 2014
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We are almost at the end of January in 2014 and Cisco Live is underway in Europe. The IT landscape is changing rapidly, and we all need to adapt to it. In a previous blog I had listed some of the high priority issues for IT in 2014, and in this blog I will […]
Cloud-based ITaaS: Transforming IT from Support to Service Brokerage
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Cloud computing is more mainstream today than ever before, but it’s important to note that there are still significant opportunities for IT leaders to innovate and leverage cloud delivery options to capture new business opportunities and implement new IT models. The Evolution of ITaaS: The Convergence of Two Roads On one hand, traditional private cloud […]
2013 – A year in review for UCS Management! What will 2014 bring?
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As we come to the end of 2013, there is a lot to look back at, and still more to look forward to in 2014. Last year I speculated whether 2012 was the year of converged infrastructure and all indications are that it was true. I was at the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas […]
Delivering IT-as-a-Service with Cisco Prime Service Catalog and FlexPod at Steria
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I’d like to share with you some insights from the recent deployment of Cisco Prime Service Catalog from one of our customers: Steria. Steria is a leading provider of IT-enabled business services with 20,000 employees worldwide. Steria serves private and public sector organizations across the globe – with operations across 16 countries throughout Europe, India, […]
A Healthy Potential
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Virtacore, a leading cloud services provider, aims to help clients shift to the cloud. But the company was aware that in order to help others, it first needed to help itself—which meant updating its own infrastructure to provide the best IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) to customers. By leveraging innovative technology from Cisco, like the Cisco Unified Computing […]
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