Navigating the Summer Beat: Insights from Cisco Live and our Partners

Navigating the Summer Beat: Insights from Cisco Live and our Partners

The start of summer is always filled with excitement, fun, and for most, a change in schedule. My children have all grown, but I carry the memories of these exciting months with vacations, lots of time in the water, and picnics. Cisco Live 2024 Similarly at Cisco for the past few years, the first few weeks of summer often bring exciting new announcements delivered at Cisco Live. This year has been no different with the…

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Top 5 Cloud Trends U.K. Businesses Should Watch in 2024

Top 5 Cloud Trends U.K. Businesses Should Watch in 2024

As business data demands increase, cloud providers and their customers find themselves having to consider the implications of increasing storage costs, security risks and environmental footprint. Such impacts are of particular importance to U.K. organisations, as it is the largest cloud market in Europe. TechRepublic spoke to U.K. cloud experts to identify the top five industry trends emerging from the country’s burgeoning reliance on the fundamental IT infrastructure. These cloud trends are: Premiumisation of cloud packages….

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Cisco Nexus Insights: Proactive Day 2 Operations

Cisco Nexus Insights: Proactive Day 2 Operations

Today’s complex hybrid cloud environments are often composed of solutions from multiple vendors and spread across multiple locations, making it challenging to smooth out application performance and availability. Operations teams can put themselves in the driver’s seat with Nexus Insights. With better visibility to manage multiple vendors and Cisco solutions, they can proactively identify, investigate, and resolve issues. With Nexus Insights, operations teams can also: Get the detailed data center view. Not only does Nexus…

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Cisco and Hitachi Vantara Simplify Hybrid Cloud Adoption with New IaaS and Flexible Consumption Options

Cisco and Hitachi Vantara Simplify Hybrid Cloud Adoption with New IaaS and Flexible Consumption Options

The goal of any technology or engineering team is to build products that make life easier for their end-users. That’s especially true in the world of IT. Against the backdrop of rising cloud costs, performance demands, and new security and sovereignty requirements, hybrid cloud offers more options – and more complexity – than ever. Whether it’s a “build your own” approach or full-scale managed services, organizations want the ability to choose the path that will…

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Google Cloud’s Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2024 Include Generative AI-Based Attacks

Google Cloud’s Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2024 Include Generative AI-Based Attacks

A November report from Google Cloud details possible nation-state malware tactics in 2024 and new angles of cyberattacks. What will cybersecurity look like in 2024? Google Cloud’s global Cybersecurity Forecast found that generative AI can help attackers and defenders and urged security personnel to look out for nation-state backed attacks and more. Contributors to the report included several of Google Cloud’s security leaders and security experts from Mandiant Intelligence, Mandiant Consulting, Chronicle Security Operations, Google…

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Realize significant value with a true consumption model, increased performance, and comprehensive services

Realize significant value with a true consumption model, increased performance, and comprehensive services

Customers are increasingly focused on as-a-Service hybrid cloud environments and the need to ensure that the technology they are investing in today can support the complexity of the technology requirements of tomorrow, driven by AI and the increasing importance of data. To meet this customer need, Hitachi Vantara and Cisco have recently strengthened their partnership, as outlined in the blog, The Superpower of Partnership: Cisco and Hitachi Vantara Deliver Best-in-class Solutions. Bringing together Cisco’s compute…

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Evolve to Cloud-Enforced Security to Empower Your Anywhere Workforce

Evolve to Cloud-Enforced Security to Empower Your Anywhere Workforce

Part 4 of the six-part series – The 2023 Global Networking Trends Report series The next generation of enterprise architecture has arrived. Organizations are moving away from a complex patchwork of best-of-breed point solutions to a single-vendor strategy for a more consistent, secure networking platform that allows their distributed workforce to access hybrid cloud and multicloud applications more efficiently, reliably, and securely. In recent years, the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) has been favored for its ability…

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