When I started in my sales career many years ago, I didn't have the luxury of an established client base or a robust CRM package that reminded me who to call. I didn't have a marketer funneling leads to me or setting up appointmen...
Public safety organizations worldwide are increasingly adopting and using secure broadband networks, supporting open standards and multivendor technologies, and using new public safety applications, while adopting new poli...
I was at the SEAT Conference in Miami last week, and people are still abuzz about the recent World Cup. Attendees of the conference see engagement with sports fans as a top priority, and they know that Cisco has the most open, tai...
Seven years ago, many people (including my mother-in-law) thought I had made a career-ending decision to accept a high-risk assignment and relocate to India. My mission: build from the ground up Cisco's second headquarters, ...
(This is part 6 of a 7-part series sharing insights from Cisco partners about the Future of Cloud.) "It's been invigorating for us to hear all of the different messages around cloud because we really think that's where the future ...
In part one of this series we covered the internals of HDDs,in part two we went over the internals of SSD, In part three we continue reviewing storage concepts to refresh or learn the right lingo. Lets start by understanding "Redu...
Recently I was speaking to someone (Mike from New Jersey) at Cisco Live and they were raving about their journey to the Flexpod. They were seeking the best compute, networking and storage yet didn't want to be boggled down with de...
In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged, Uri Elzur (Intel) and Mike Dvorkin (@dvorkinista) discuss automation in the data center, from application intent to compliance and governance. What is shared infrastructure? Lis...
I am Soni Jiandani, SVP of Marketing for Cisco's Insieme Business Unit. Together with a team of veteran leaders and engineers, we continue to disrupt markets to drive industry transformation. Our latest disruption is focused on le...
In the second part of my blog series I want to cover one of the main concerns that Services Providers are facing as they explore moving to NFV and that is performance and scalability. Common concerns I hear center around latency, ...
Cisco Achieves SAP HANA Certifications for Unified Computing Systems Mission-Critical Servers Cisco has received SAP HANA certification for its Unified Computing Systems (UCS) mission-critical servers with the Intel Ivy Bridge chi...
The acronym SIAM stands forServiceIntegrationAndManagement, and it is a hot topic in the world of IT Service Management.....but why? Service integration models have been around awhile, but are evolving from the challenges of manag...