When Snam, an Italian gas company, needed to update its data centers why did it choose Cisco quipment-specifically Nexus switches-to do the job? Because the Nexus switches were the only platform to offer Overlay Transport Virtuali...
Traditionally, incumbent companies have relied on three main competitive advantages to maintain their leadership positions over newcomers: 1) large customer bases, 2) strong brand equity, and 3) access to large amounts of inexpens...
On November 3rd, Cisco announced that we are extending our Security Everywhere strategy with new solutions and services aimed at helping our customers gain greater visibility, context, and control from the cloud to the network to ...
At Cisco, we have long believed in the power of relationships. Recently, I've laid out how we plan to be the most strategic technology partner to our customers, and while we are very focused on the opportunities ahead, it's clear ...
ACI, the SDN Purpose-Built for Data Center Operations and Automation A couple of years ago we talked about our SDN vision and strategy, and a little over a year ago we started shipping the ACI solution. Since then over 1,000 custo...
Looking for the most exciting experience at SAP TechEd Barcelona? We have just the ticket. Here are our 5 best tips for meeting smart people, checking out innovative solutions, and making this the most productive conference of th...
I had the great privilege of attending and speaking at Fortune Global Forum this week, which gathers business leaders to discuss the most pressing challenges we face and to set the global business agenda. The theme of this year's ...
Big Data. Big Responsibilities. Robb says "Splunk runs best on UCS" Traditional tools for managing and monitoring IT infrastructures are out of step with the constant change happening in today's data centers. When problems ...
Cisco employees know all about working at Cisco, the fun we have while we work and the cool things we do. But sometimes they just want to tell other people about it. So the team that brings you @WeAreCisco on Twitter and Inst...
Today Cisco completed its acquisition of ParStream, a company that has created a specialized database built for the Internet of Things (IoT). In hyper distributed data environments, massive amounts of data are being created and in...
As you remember, we launched Security Everywhere last June during Cisco Live, San Diego. Since that time we have received tremendous response from our mutual customers and you, our partners. To further decrease the risk of s...
During the OpenStack Summit last week, we released Mantl 0.4. In this blog I would like to go into more details about the release. But first I'd like to start by explaining what Mantl is -and what it is not. System Integration as ...