“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
IT and business leaders are starting to realize that organizations don’t have to build and operate everything internally, so they are turning to a new way of delivering technology — Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) — for a variety of business applications. These days...
Published: Nov 22, 2016
Understanding the unique cooling and powering needs of VoIP equipment allows planning for a successful and cost effective VoIP deployment.
This paper explains how to plan for VoIP power and cooling needs, and describes simple, fast, reliable, and cost effective strategies for upgrading old facilities and building...
Published: May 07, 2015
Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) provide the framework for systems design based on common use cases or current engineering system priorities. They incorporate a broad set of technologies, features, and applications to address customer needs. Cisco engineers have comprehensively tested and documented each CVD in order to...
Published: Aug 18, 2014
The increase in wide area network (WAN) traffic and applications service demands has caused IT organization to evolve their WAN connectivity strategies. Hybrid WAN is a growing trend with many organizations and enterprises.
This whitepaper discusses:
Hybrid architectures.
Requirements for a successful...
Published: Feb 10, 2016
Adoption of cloud-based applications will continue to increase as enterprise companies achieve the benefits of cost savings, flexibility, and reduced operational demands.
Cloud services place new demands and requirements on the enterprise network. The types of applications and the way they are delivered and consumed...
Published: Apr 04, 2013