Articles By: Cisco

Cisco Cloud Connected Solution: Prepare Your Network For The Cloud

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.

Cisco Unified SRST For Cisco HCS – A Cloud Connector

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.

Enterprises Seek The Benefits Of Hybrid Cloud, And Work To Overcome The Challenges

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.

Cloud Bursts Into Higher Education

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.

Cisco Cloud Connectors: Bringing Network Intelligence To The Cloud

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.

Cisco Regional WAN Solution

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.

Education Company Moves Data Center To The Cloud, Saves Big

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.

Cisco UCS E-Series Servers

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.