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It’s Summertime, So Analysts Turn Up the Heat on Data Virtualization
It’s Summertime, So Analysts Turn Up the Heat on Data Virtualization
While everyone else is enjoying summer, analysts at Gartner and Forrester are busy reporting on key data virtualization products such as the Cisco Information Server.
July 18, 2017
Building a Strategic Roadmap for Networking?
Building a Strategic Roadmap for Networking?
If you’re trying to determine the best way to create your organization’s own network journey, you can’t go wrong with reading Gartner’s 2017 Strategic Roadmap for Networking.
June 15, 2017
Cisco Collaboration a Leader in 5 Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports
Cisco Collaboration a Leader in 5 Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports
Cisco is positioned as a leader in all five Gartner Magic Quadrants in which Cisco Collaboration participated over the last year, which confirms both the strength of our portfolio and our vision for the future.
Feb. 10, 2017
How Cisco CloudCenter Stacks up
How Cisco CloudCenter Stacks up
If you are like me – all the cloud management tools sound the same. Vendors all use the same words to describe very different solutions. Hybrid. Platform.
Aug. 31, 2016
Hyperconverged Infrastructure – Industry Analyst Insights
Hyperconverged Infrastructure – Industry Analyst Insights
Industry analyst firm, Gartner, expects the market for hyperconverged infrastructure to reach $5 billion by 2019. We’ve pulled together insights from a variety of analyst firms to explain why...
March 30, 2016
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) vs Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) vs Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)
Many colleagues, customers, and Cisco partners have asked me, “Why isn’t Cisco AMP for Endpoints included in Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant for Endpoint
March 21, 2016
Another Milestone: Gartner Names Cisco a Leader in Telephony
Another Milestone: Gartner Names Cisco a Leader in Telephony
We continue to evolve the ways we interact and communicate. Still, telephony remains a foundation element of business communications.  Even as we bring technologies into the collaboration mix, telephony is...
Nov. 10, 2014
Internet of Everything: Hype or Hyper Progress?
Internet of Everything: Hype or Hyper Progress?
Last month, Gartner published one of its well-known Hype Cycles, and a Forbes headline summed up a key assertion very well. "It's Official: The Internet
Oct. 3, 2014
IT Needs a Promotion to Cloud Services Broker
IT Needs a Promotion to Cloud Services Broker
Is your IT department currently acting as a Cloud services broker?And what exactly is a Cloud services broker? As our world of many clouds
May 9, 2014
What CXOs Need to Know About the Cloud
What CXOs Need to Know About the Cloud
The Internet of Everything (IoE) is changing the business and IT landscape, fueling unprecedented growth and disruption. As such, just thinking about
May 8, 2014
Natural Selection On Full Display in the Server World
Natural Selection On Full Display in the Server World
Recent results clearly reinforce the growing understanding that Cisco has unleashed a more highly evolved and effective solution into the computing
June 20, 2013
The Evolving Data Center : Perspectives from the Gartner DC Conferences
The Evolving Data Center : Perspectives from the Gartner DC Conferences
I have just come back from the Gartner Data Center conferences in London and Las Vegas where I got to witness the increasing relevance of Cisco in the
Dec. 18, 2012