Enterprises, small businesses, and governments are looking to cloud-based solutions to solve some of their biggest business and technology challenges: reducing costs, reaching new levels of efficiency, and creating innovative business models. Cloud services and applications offer compelling economics by reducing capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx) through sharing of cloud assets and dynamic, on-demand delivery of services. Clouds […]

Cisco® Hosted Collaborations Services (HCS) is an example of widely accepted cloud services that enterprise customers are adopting. The Survivable Remote Site Telephone (SRST) for Cisco HCS is a software and hardware solution that allows customers to maintain business connectivity during a time of loss connectivity between their premise and the cloud service. Customers are adopting Cisco HCS since it […]

IT decision-makers report greatest interest in using IaaS in a hybrid cloud approach to complement on premises capacity, rather than replace it, and are planning for the impact that will have on network operations and spending. This profile highlights cloud adoption trends as well as the key benefits and challenges that US and European enterprises see when considering and adopting […]

A study conducted by Forrester Consulting finds that university IT leaders need to focus their efforts on strengthening ties to academic departments, transitioning the internal infrastructure to a private cloud and learning to embrace a hybrid cloud future. Read more.  

Increasingly enterprises are adopting cloud services, with more than 50 percent of all workloads being processed in the cloud by 2014 according to the 2011 Cisco® Global Cloud Index. However, cloud services place new demands and requirements on the enterprise network, especially the enterprise WAN in delivering these services to remote and branch-office users. In order to meet these new […]

Extending the enterprise network to remote branch offices has long been one of the more difficult challenges of the IT organization. The Cisco® Regional WAN (RWAN) Solution architecture provides a set of pretested deployment recommendations for addressing some of the challenges with remote branch-office environments. The RWAN includes the network services for the remote branch office as well as the […]

Cisco UCS also helps enhance network and application performance. “Our new infrastructure is delivering five times more speed, and it allows my team to work faster,” says Blaisdell. “The server provisioning and physical rollouts that used to take us seven weeks to accomplish, now only take a few hours in a virtual environment.” Read more.  

Bringing Data Center Class Virtualization Ready Blade Servers to the Branch Office What Are Cisco UCS E-Series Servers? Cisco UCS® E-Series Servers bring data center–class virtualization-ready blade servers to the branch office. Cisco UCS E-Series Servers are virtualization-ready, high-density, single-socket blade servers designed to balance simplicity, performance, and application density while operating in a energy-efficient environment. These powerful, small form […]