Thursday, July 21, 2011

Yet another reason to move to Cloud... A study out this week has found that if companies adopt cloud computing, they can reduce the energy consumption of their IT and save money on energy bills. The report, created by research firm Verdantix and sponsored by AT&T, estimates that cloud computing could enable companies to save $12.3 billion off their energy bills.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Private cloud investment by Enterprise & Public Sector accelerating - will lead investment in Cloud over next 18 months

Not to restate the obvious but most enterprises and government entities are doing little or nothing with public cloud and heavily investing in private cloud initiatives. Two big reasons for this are that 1) IT organizations are able to more effectively articulate a quantifiable business case for deploying a private cloud based on a) increased agility, and b) increases in operational efficiency and staff productivity and 2) security concerns are still a major factor in curbing adoption of public cloud services and implementing hybrid cloud solutions that blend private and public cloud solutions.

A good article by Dave Gaeda provides more detail.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Cisco's Partner Summit in N'awlins!

Getting ready for another great Cisco Partner Summit next week. This year, it's all about the Cloud (isn't everything?) and how Partners can participate in the market transition to "IT as a Service" or "XaaS".

Here's a great "explainer" for those wanting to know more about how Cisco is enabling the benefits of cloud with our partner BMC Software.

Saturday, January 8, 2011


Verizon and Cisco team up to bring 4G mobile collaboration to business

- posted from my iPhone

Taking Enterprise Mobility to the next level

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2011/prod_010511b.html?CMP=AF17154&vs_f=News@Cisco:+Press+Releases+and+Features&vs_p=News@Cisco:+Press+Releases+and+Features&vs_k=1


- posted from my iPhone

Location:Las Vegas