“While the CLI remains the dominant mechanism for more than 85% of system engineers to implement network changes, several alternatives are gaining popularity, including APIs, fabrics, and SD-WAN. By 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will use the CLI as their primary interface, down from 85% at YE16.”...
Published: Jul 19, 2017
Today, less than 5% of network operations teams are sufficiently skilled to realize the value possible from network analytics and automation solutions. This will improve over the next three years, but not much—by 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will be able to fully realize the benefits of these tools....
Published: Jul 19, 2017
Look at the reality that is digital disruption and why it's happening, alongside who the digital disruptors are and why they're achieving success.
“Since 2000, 52% of combines in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired, ceased to exist or dropped out.” - Ray Wang, Principal...
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Validating application and service delivery is key to the ongoing success of most organizations. The right network performance management and diagnostics (NPMD) solution can help enterprises avoid the negative financial and customer service implications of anomalous events, while maintaining optimal performance of IT resources....
Published: Aug 23, 2017
The Tenth Annual State of the Network Global Study focuses a lens on the network team's role in security investigations. Results indicate that 88 percent of network teams are now spending time on security issues. In fact, out of 1,035 respondents, nearly 3 out of 4 spend up to 10 hours per week working exclusively...
Published: Aug 23, 2017
Microsoft Office 365 delivers powerful business productivity tools in the cloud, but managing it can be complex. How do you migrate all your email and accounts and minimize downtime? How do you manage daily support and troubleshooting? What about all the new features that are released?
In this white paper, learn how...
Published: Sep 13, 2017
Migrating applications is a subject that can strike fear into the heart of even the most seasoned IT professional. Stories of poorly executed migrations abound, and they often cost businesses dearly in terms of time and money. As organizations consider migrating applications out of their own data centers and into the cloud,...
Published: Sep 19, 2017
Microsoft® Hyper-V® Server offers the cost and efficiency advantages of virtualization, along with centralized management and control, built-in redundancy features like clustering and a unified set of orchestration tools.
And with its release of Windows® Server® 2016, Microsoft delivers even more Hyper-V...
Published: Sep 19, 2017
Ready to start using Microsoft® Azure®, but not sure how to get started?
Have teams within your organization opened Azure accounts that you need to consolidate? Maybe you inherited some Azure workloads through a merger or acquisition? Or perhaps you’ve concluded that working with Microsoft’s offering...
Published: Sep 19, 2017
The time you save with the Cisco UCS solution's automated process can quickly add up when you are implementing a large-scale blade server deployment.
By choosing the Cisco Blade Servers, your IT staff can save days or weeks - time much better spent on other projects. Less time spent on routine tasks...
Published: Apr 08, 2014
Organizations are evaluating or deploying Microsoft Office 365. However, existing internet connectivity will not provide adequate performance for Office 365 in most scenarios.
This research describes how network planners and managers can optimize the network infrastructure to support Office 365.
Published: Oct 24, 2016
The truest form of cloud computing can be found in public cloud offerings. Like a hotel where rooms are rented for a period of time, public cloud services offer the four basic tenets of cloud-based application delivery: shared computing resources, virtualization, the ability to quickly ramp up or down and a “pay-for-what-you-use”...
Published: Jul 19, 2013
“Bring your own device” (BYOD) is the new mantra of employees who are empowered to innovate the way they work, using the technology tools they prefer. This growing trend has been well-documented.
In our original research on BYOD, described in “BYOD: A Global Perspective,” the Cisco Internet...
Published: Jan 16, 2014
As video conferencing finds its place in a wide array of business niches, it’s important to consider how you can get the most value for your company. Not only does video conferencing reduce travel time and meeting delays, it also creates shorter and more productive meetings while letting you get your message across...
Published: Dec 05, 2016