Articles By: Cisco

Cloud 101: Developing A Cloud-Computing Strategy For Higher Education

In the search for a more scalable approach to IT infrastructure, a growing number of schools see cloud-based computing as a tremendous opportunity to achieve large-scale efficiencies without sacrificing performance.

Next Generation Enterprise WAN

This document provides an Architecture Overview of the Next Generation Enterprise WAN, and takes an architectural approach to designing and deploying routed WAN solutions for Borderless Networks. It provides a breakdown of the architectural components as well as an overview of the Borderless Network Services integrated within the architecture.

Why Cloud Computing Needs A Cloud-Intelligent Network

Cloud computing has been on the horizon of most CIOs for the better part of half a decade. Cloud computing represents the next evolutionary step for computing. Decades ago, the mainframe era kicked off computing. This phase lasted about 20 years, eventually giving way to the client/server era.

Cisco: Telecom Case Study

A leading global communications company with customers in more than 170 countries, BT offers fixed-line services, broadband, mobile and TV products and services to consumers, enterprise companies, and the public sector. BT Global Services is one of the company’s four customer-facing lines of business, providing managed networked IT services for large corporate and public sector customers.

Cisco AppNav Technical Overview

Today’s network provides an information and multimedia conduit handling a wide range of critical business applications to facilitate many aspects of business processes. This increased integration of business processes with networks puts extensive demands on network-based services such as WAN optimization.

Delivering Cloud And Managed Services To Enterprise Customers

Leading communications service providers (CSPs) have successfully found an important niche in public enterprise-grade cloud computing services, one that builds on their strengths in enterprise-grade networking and managed services provision. This niche consists of offering a middle ground between traditional public cloud computing delivered over the public Internet and customized and more expensive private cloud computing services.

Cisco Cloud For Higher Education

This report from Forrester Research examines how the new world of cloud services combines powerful computing, networking, storage, management tools, and applications to make it easier than ever to bridge the on-campus and online worlds with secure, on-demand services. Read more.

Shared Services Today: An Integrated Path To The Cloud

Shared services are becoming more important than ever for state, local and federal agencies. In the midst of policy and financial uncertainties, shared services offer money-saving economies of scale and opportunities for rolling out new services more quickly to clients.