Building a successful recurring revenue business is a common challenge facing Cisco partners. From service contract renewals to upsell and cross-sell opportunities, we know that post-sales initiatives often take a back seat, causi...
Integrating Monasca and Ceilometer seemed like a very good idea from the start. It would integrate all the OpenStack resources notifications and metrics as well as provide a unified storage layer for Monitoring and Metering, simpl...
Interviews are tricky because they can range from amazing experiences to downright horror stories. They make most people (even the interviewer) a little nervous, but they are one of the best ways to determine if you are a good fi...
Connecting more things in more places creates new security challenges. Please join us on November 17, 2015 at 8:00AM (PST) for the IoT System Security webinar and learn how to secure and control IoT with the Cisco IoT System Secur...
Back in September 2014 Cisco acquired private OpenStack cloud service company Metacloud (http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?articleId=1489587). Initially known as Cisco OpenStack Private Cloud (COPC) and now known as ...
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...
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...
Everyone has had the stressful experience of being in a large building and not knowing where they were. Try adding that uncertainty to a hospital visit and see how your blood pressure reacts when you finally find yourself in the d...
It is no secret that Manufacturing and related industrial verticals will be significantly impacted by the Internet of Things (IoT) and the new business models evolving from digital disruption. Many industry luminaries and market-...
I am only going to say this once.This is our third episode for what I have personally termed the 'NX-OS' exposed series. The first two have been about programmability. Exploring the exposed interfaces, Object Mod...
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 ...