It’s a great time to be a managed service provider (MSP). Small businesses and enterprises alike are embracing managed services, and spending is expected to grow to $257.84 billionin 2022 with a CAGR of 11.1 percent.
Wednesday 18 April 2018
Tuesday 17 April 2018
Increase Your Cross-Selling with the 3 P’s for Extended Enterprise
It doesn’t matter if you are an account manager or a customer success manager, you want to be a trusted advisor as your customer embarks on their digital journey. Customers want personalized engagement with trusted partners, and it is important to be able to solve your customers’ business problems by recommending or suggesting related technology solutions. When I was in the field, I was sometimes nervous about cross-selling unfamiliar products. However, as I share what I know about the Cisco Ruggedized portfolio, I think you will agree that cross-selling Extended Enterprise use cases for this portfolio provides a simple way to leverage your current network knowledge and account relationships to generate additional revenue and solve top-of-mind customer concerns.
Sunday 15 April 2018
ACI loves KVM and Red Hat Virtualization
Cisco ACI has provided integration with KVM in OpenStack environments quite for some time now. OpenStack is a great technology to implement Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) with uses cases for Private, Public and Telco clouds. But indeed Openstack provides a cloud platform, tailored to “cattle-type” of workloads, as opposed to “pet-type” workloads.
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Redefining Security for the Modern Data Center in a Multicloud World
Global security challenges are ever-growing, especially with the rise of sophisticated threats. A growing concern for many of our customers is around security for today’s complex data centers. How do you keep data safe while you’re running applications in both on-prem data centers and in public, private, and hybrid clouds?
Friday 6 April 2018
IcedID Banking Trojan teams up with Rovnix for distribution
In November 2017 security researchers reported a new banking Trojan known as “IcedID”. At the time of discovery IcedID was being distributed by Emotet. In late February and throughout March 2018 Cisco noticed an increase in IcedID infections being detected throughout the AMP ecosystem. Like in November 2017, some of the infections could be traced to Emotet, but this time, many detections could instead be traced to emails with attached malicious Microsoft Word documents containing macros. When the malicious documents are opened and the macros are enabled, Rovnix would be downloaded and executed, which subsequently downloads IcedID. In addition to Rovnix, many of the samples downloaded a second payload, a Bytecoin miner (Bytecoin is a crypto currency similar to Bitcoin).
Thursday 5 April 2018
How to Deploy a UCS Manager Environment with Far Less Python Code
A co-worker sent me some infrastructure code to check out and get my opinion. The code was fine, but it was a lot of code… I mean a lot of code. Looking at the thousands of lines of purpose written code I started thinking that there could be a better way. The code was Python and used the UCS Python SDK to deploy a UCS Manager environment and it worked, it did everything it was supposed to do, but it did only those things.
Friday 30 March 2018
Artificial Intelligence
Cisco Hyperflex
Cisco Intersight
Cisco UCS
Digital Transformation
Machine Learning
Cisco UCS and HyperFlex for AI/ML Workloads in the Data Center
Data is the lifeblood of business. It helps drive deep insights and better decisions, improve processes, and offer a deeper understanding of customers, partners and business. Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) enables us to learn from data, identify patterns and make better decisions that augment human capabilities. This provides businesses new ways to grow revenue, attract and retain customers and become more operationally efficient. Further, AI/ML can help automate tasks as well as accelerate untapped insight in previously unexplored areas. Almost all industries in every sector from banking to healthcare and manufacturing are trying to take advantage of these benefits.
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