webinar

August 8, 2016

EDUCATION

Cybersecurity for Education: Learn from the Experts

1 min read

Don’t miss the chance to learn how to better protect your school – register now for our cybersecurity webinars for K-12 and higher education!

June 7, 2016

NETWORKING

Digitized Guest Experiences Keep Travelers Coming Back

1 min read

In the hospitality industry, great service is a key differentiator. At the same time, digitization is changing the way that the industry does business in order to meet the demands of tech-savvy guests like you and me, who – let’s be honest, folks – are chained to our smartphones. So, great service today goes well […]

March 24, 2016

CLOUD

Batteries Included

1 min read

If you’ve spent any time on Cisco Cloud blogs at all, you’ve heard about Metapod. It’s our production-ready, OpenStack-based, on-premises private cloud solution. We engineer it, deploy it, and remotely operate it 24×7 on your behalf. It’s the perfect solution for companies that enjoy the public cloud experience, but need the security and performance advantages […]

March 23, 2016

EDUCATION

Upcoming Webinar: Pennsylvania School uses E-Rate to Deploy Meraki Solution

1 min read

Schools districts all around the country have been using E-rate funding to spark a digital transformation in their classrooms.

November 20, 2015

NETWORKING

Your Right to Choose Your WAN Connectivity and Your Right to Security

1 min read

Still too often, nowadays, I look at my phone and my stomach drops. I see: “3G”… Even worse, I see: “1x”… I think to myself: It’s the year 2015 and the world is becoming increasingly digitized. IDC’s Internet of Things Forecast states that there will be 4 billion people using 50 billion devices all in […]

October 14, 2015

CLOUD

Take a Stand on Private Cloud

1 min read

The cloud has become inescapable. Email about it clutters your IN box, headlines about it adorn your magazines, colleagues chatter about its merits in the hallways, and meeting after meeting is held to determine just what—if anything—should be done about it at your company. Should you be using public cloud? Building a private one? Going […]

October 13, 2015

CLOUD

It’s Time to Tackle Your Shadow IT

1 min read

Last week I was in London and Amsterdam, where I had a fantastic time meeting with customers and cloud partners. During the conversations I had with customers and partners, shadow IT was continuously recognized as a challenge. However, most were not sure of how, or if, they should take actual action. Why? Some IT managers […]

October 2, 2014

DATA CENTER

The eStore Vision Has Become a Reality! A Single Storefront for IT Services

3 min read

Today’s blog post is by a guest author, Adel du Toit, who is currently spearheading the effort by Cisco’s internal IT organization to deliver IT-as-a-Service internally, dubbed the Cisco IT “eStore.” Recently, the eStore team took home multiple awards, you can read more about that here. (If you’re not familiar with the eStore, be sure […]

July 7, 2014

DATA CENTER

How Cisco, eBay and Adobe are leveraging SAP HANA on UCS as a Business Innovation Platform

1 min read

The ability of companies to innovate is more important than ever.  To respond rapidly to evolving business trends, or change the way they interact with customers, companies need a powerful platform for innovation that can analyze huge data volumes to identify new customer patterns, adapt quickly to new market opportunities and adjust their business processes […]