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UCS Director and Cisco Intersight – Better Together
UCS Director and Cisco Intersight – Better Together
Cisco continues to invest and enhance our data center automation and private cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform, Cisco UCS Director. At the same time, we are leveraging the...
March 19, 2019
New FlexPod Solutions Simplify the Delivery of Cloud Infrastructure and Industry-specific Applications
New FlexPod Solutions Simplify the Delivery of Cloud Infrastructure and Industry-specific Applications
Modern data centers face increasing demands for agile, high performance service delivery. Digital transformations are driving an increased number of applications with more sources of data, and often times...
June 7, 2018
Your Guide To The Multicloud World, Part 2
Your Guide To The Multicloud World, Part 2
The multicloud era is here. There is no denying that businesses large and small are accelerating the pace of moving applications and data to not only private and public clouds, but multiple clouds.
Feb. 16, 2018
Protecting Your Border or Offering a Service to Others? Part 1
Protecting Your Border or Offering a Service to Others? Part 1
In the previous posts (1 and 2) we talked about how technical innovation (in networking and containers) can address an operational challenge involving
July 19, 2017
A Rich Partner Ecosystem for a Successful Cloud Strategy
A Rich Partner Ecosystem for a Successful Cloud Strategy
I continue to bet on Cloud Computing (I am not referring to the horse that won the Preakness Stakes ahead of ‘Classic Empire’) but as I place that bet … my assumption … is that the various major industry players will continue to work together in a meaningful way toward the progressive standardization of cloud technologies.
June 15, 2017
The Evolution and Growing Relevance of Managed Services in a Cloud Computing World
The Evolution and Growing Relevance of Managed Services in a Cloud Computing World
Defining Managed Services and Cloud Computing Managed Services is traditionally understood to be the practice of having a third party Service Provider -
Oct. 18, 2016
Building resilient applications with Cisco Metacloud
Building resilient applications with Cisco Metacloud
This post walks through the models for building resilient applications on OpenStack infrastructure with Cisco Metacloud, OpenStack Orchestration, and
Oct. 12, 2016
Cloud Going Mainstream: “Getting Ready for the Second Wave” of Cloud Value
Cloud Going Mainstream: “Getting Ready for the Second Wave” of Cloud Value
Read the guest blog post from Robert Mahowald, IDC Group Vice President, about the second wave of cloud adoption and value.
Sept. 21, 2016
Managed Cloud: Your Best Cloud Native Choice
Managed Cloud: Your Best Cloud Native Choice
Today, organizations have many choices in how they architect their data centers and network. Innovative companies are increasingly taking a bimodal
July 11, 2016
Meeting the Challenge of Reselling Cloud Services
Meeting the Challenge of Reselling Cloud Services
Today’s Guest Blog comes to us courtesy of Steve Vicinanza, CEO of Cirrity. As a reseller, your customers depend on you to fully qualify and carefully
June 1, 2016
Shadow IT: Rampant, Pervasive, and Explosive!
Shadow IT: Rampant, Pervasive, and Explosive!
When wireless for LAN burst onto the scene, companies were a lot slower than their employees to embrace it. Employees didn’t want to be tied to their
Jan. 19, 2016
Easy to Build, Easy to Manage: Cisco OpenStack Private Cloud
Easy to Build, Easy to Manage: Cisco OpenStack Private Cloud
What if a private cloud could give your developers the easy, fast, and predictable experience that public cloud delivers, but inside your own data center,
April 29, 2015