Are enterprises loving managed services?

Are enterprises loving managed services?

There’s a lot in networking that never measures up to the hype, so maybe it’s good that this is balanced sometimes by areas where the hype falls far short of reality. Managed services is one of those things. It always seems to be bubbling just below the surface of attention, and yet it may be the most important topic in networking today. I had a chance to chat with 59 enterprises that were involved with…

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Fueling Partner Success in FY22 – Part 2 – Cisco Blogs

Fueling Partner Success in FY22 – Part 2 – Cisco Blogs

This past year we have been working on aligning, enabling, and accelerating partner success through distribution. We have led a successful year; despite the many challenges we have faced as a united society. Our success is more than just profitability, although that is vastly important and a key initiative for the new fiscal year, it’s also connecting families, enabling small businesses to keep the lights on, and doing our part to help millions get vaccinated….

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Leaf Global FinTech: Meet the team pushing past barriers to virtual banking – Cisco Blogs

Leaf Global FinTech: Meet the team pushing past barriers to virtual banking – Cisco Blogs

Now that the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021 winners have been officially announced, we are excited for you to learn more about each winning team and the story behind each innovation. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is an annual competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage tech entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems. Now in its fifth year, the competition awarded its largest prize pool ever, $1 million USD, to 20 winning teams…

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Cisco SD-WAN for Government achieves FedRAMP ATO

Cisco SD-WAN for Government achieves FedRAMP ATO

Cisco is the only vendor that provides a FedRAMP ATO certified SD-WAN solution. Cisco SD-WAN for Government can help U.S. Government agencies accelerate their IT modernization. Agencies can now fast-track the adoption of secure cloud solutions to allow agencies to optimize workloads, move applications, and extend their secure footprint anywhere in a more cost-effective manner. Why Software-Defined WAN? We are rapidly moving to a multicloud world. As organizations migrate their applications to the cloud, they…

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Cisco to buy Epsagon for application, microservice management

Cisco to buy Epsagon for application, microservice management

Cisco is looking to bolster its enterprise application management suite by buying cloud-based application-performance firm Epsagon for $500M. Founded in 2017, the Israel-based Epsagon develops cloud-based application monitoring software focused on scrutinizing cloud microservices and applications. Businesses are adopting cloud-native technologies, microservices, and containerized components on a large scale while leveraging an extensive web of traditional components, third-party services and application programming interfaces, wrote Liz Centoni, Cisco’s chief strategy officer and general manager, applications, in a blog…

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Be advised: helping financial services adapt to hybrid work – Cisco Blogs

Be advised: helping financial services adapt to hybrid work – Cisco Blogs

This week’s blog comes to us from Marc Haimsohn, Senior Director of Business Development at Vyopta. Vyopta is a Cisco Solutions Partner that specializes in monitoring, reporting, and analytics in order to increase user adoption and improve ROI for your Cisco investments and collaborations spaces. Companies in the financial services sector – whether established names like Goldman Sachs or newer players in the tech world – have come out most in favor of returning their…

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Cisco Advances Full-Stack Observability Strategy with Intent to Acquire Epsagon – Cisco Blogs

Cisco Advances Full-Stack Observability Strategy with Intent to Acquire Epsagon – Cisco Blogs

I’m pleased to announce our intent to acquire Epsagon Ltd., a privately held, modern observability company with offices in New York and Tel Aviv. Named by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor in Performance Analysis”† with expertise in distributed tracing solutions for modern applications and technologies, including containers and serverless environments, Epsagon will play a key role in expanding and accelerating Cisco’s comprehensive Full-Stack Observability roadmap. Applications have become part of our everyday life and are…

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Private 5G as a service is now a thing

Private 5G as a service is now a thing

A private 5G platform designed to offer the latest-generation licensed wireless technology to enterprise users as a service was announced today by Japanese telecom giant NTT. The company said its private 5G-as-a-service platform, which it calls P5G, would use CBRS and other licensed spectrum in the U.S. to provide businesses with their own 5G networks. The company said also that its platform is highly flexible, working with a wide variety of software standards and networking…

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Atos reportedly trying to dump on-prem consulting business

Atos reportedly trying to dump on-prem consulting business

Just months after it was considering buying DXC Technology, Atos is reportedly looking to sell some of its legacy business operations, including its data-center and communications businesses. If true, it’s a further sign that the on-prem consulting business is falling out of favor. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that Atos is exploring a sale of its legacy information technology business, including some outsourcing operations. One day later, Atos CEO Elie Girard said during its earnings call…

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Juniper touts cloud-ready data center, AI, automation

Juniper touts cloud-ready data center, AI, automation

Enterprise networks are focused on buying full-stack offerings that include key software components such as management, automation and AI but also routing, switching and security rather than a piecemeal approach. That trend is being driven by a post-COVID rethinking of network architecture but also the need to simplify the network and access to cloud resources, says  Juniper Networks’ executive vice president and chief product officer Manoj Leelanivas.  Juniper Networks Manoj Leelanivas “The idea that customers…

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