(This is part 5 of a 7-part series sharing insights from Cisco partners about the Future of Cloud.) "A lot of things go into building out a cloud practice that most people don't realize until they get into it. Because we hav...
Cisco's EnergyOps team is tasked with reducing energy consumption and increasing energy efficiency at our offices, labs, and data centers worldwide. Cisco's labs are our largest consumer of energy and although we are putting a lot...
Customers gain great value from server virtualization in the form of virtual machines (VM) and more recently Linux Containers /Dockers in data centers, clouds and branches. By some estimates, more than 60 % of...
IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS) team helps clients protect their mission-critical information and maintain continuous business operations, with help from Cisco MDS solutions and Cisco Services. Business Cont...
I've been to the UK twice this year. The traffic is terrible! Worse than I ever remember! Commentators that's a good sign -a sign of economic prosperity. That certainly seems to be the case in the UK. My last European-related blog...
In the last two blogs, I talked about the reasons for IT Transformation, understanding Enterprise Environment and how to effectively set management goals. As more and more companies begin to move towards IT Transformation, there a...
As the number of users of social media continues to grow, the boundary between our personal and professional lives begins to overlap. Unsurprisngly, the customer buying cycle is also beginning to change. By the tim...
I was at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit at the Gaylord National Harbor and had the opportunity to attend the session, "Finding the Sweet Spot to Balance Cyber Risk,"which Tammie Leith was facilitating. During the...
It's always interesting and often entertaining to observe how competitors promote their products and what they choose to focus on-and more importantly, what they choose not to focus on and what they hope people won't ask questions...
Big Data Analytics is becoming an integral part of the enterprise IT ecosystem. In order to realize its full potential it must be integrated with traditional data management systems and analytics technologies (and in the near futu...
"If you want to use the music fromFrozenin your game, do you know how to download a gif to match?" Not the average question I have heard in a conference room at Cisco headquarters in San Jose, California, especially when asked to ...
Yesterday afternoon, Cisco hosted an "Internet of Everything in Business" roundtable discussion-featuring executives from Stanley Black & Decker, AeroScout Industrial, salesforce.com and FH Celebration Health-which spotlighted...