IT Management

As the corporate landscape becomes increasingly mobile, and workers collaborate across a growing range of devices, organizations are implementing an agile and secure unified communications infrastructure. Active deployment of UC technology solutions has been on the rise among enterprises; however, adoption among midsize businesses has been notably slower. Yet in seeking ways to do more with less, midsize organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud and converged networks to provide UC solutions. In October 2013, Cisco commissioned Forrester Consulting to dive deeper into the current usage trends and perceptions of unified communications among midsize organizations (100 to 999 employees) across North America, Asia, and Europe.

You have three choices for using Cisco® Unified Communications and Collaboration applications: on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid of the two. The option that is best for your company depends on your IT skills, budget priorities, growth plans, and customization requirements. This guide, intended for organizations with 100 to 1000 employees, will help you compare the options.

Midsize businesses have ever-greater choice in premises-based unified communications, with providers extending features and go-to-market channels while trying to maintain ease of use and consistency. Midmarket IT planners should evaluate UC providers' delivery capabilities, not just their solutions.

In today’s global economy, innovation matters. For teams to innovate rapidly and with great frequency, they must be able to clearly communicate and closely collaborate. Miscommunication, misunderstanding and misinterpretation only leads to costly errors, bottlenecked business processes and market misfires. Most of these issues are avoidable. A convergence of low-cost but high-quality technology and a highly competitive business environment is making video collaboration a channel of choice for today’s information workers and decision makers. The availability of relatively low-cost technology—including high-quality video conferencing equipment, high-bandwidth networks and easy-to-use applications and tools—is bringing video collaboration within reach of today’s workforce. The impact on innovation and productivity—as well as critical business processes, from customer service to problem-solving—is only just starting to be felt.

The introduction of innovative new form factors, software infrastructure and cloud services is reshaping enterprise video collaboration. The following vendors offer potential for greater reach, scale and interoperability while addressing the most critical video use cases.

In March 2014, Cisco Systems commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of the Cisco UCS on their organizations. To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with a Cisco UCS implementation, Forrester interviewed several customers with multiple years of experience using Cisco UCS. Cisco Unified Computing System and servers unify computing, networking, management, virtualization, and storage access into a single integrated architecture

This white paper presents IDC’s analysis of the business value organizations are achieving by using Cisco UCS as a platform for SAP HANA and other SAP Business Suite applications. This analysis is based on IDC’s interviews with 12 Cisco UCS customers. These organizations are all relatively large organizations (1,500–85,000 employees), with an average of 25,383 employees. Interviewees represent a variety of industries: natural resources, agriculture, energy, government, automotive, retail, food and beverage, distribution, technology, healthcare, and IT. These organizations are based in the United States, EMEA, Mexico, and Brazil.

Technological integration doesn’t happen overnight, of course. It takes years of behind-the-scenes teamwork and engineering—backed by decades of expertise, research, and development—to have a broad and lasting impact. This special edition of Unleashing IT highlights the fruits of those labors, showcasing the unparalleled alignment of Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel technologies. In the following pages, you’ll read about the advancement and unique value of integrated solutions, spanning cloud environments, data centers, and management tools. You’ll also hear from organizations that are taking advantage of these converged technologies, including King County, Provincia Net, and Swinburne University. With Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel, you have a triad of innovators and leaders that recognize the value of integration, virtualization, and unified management. A triad that continues to work behind-the-scenes to reduce the complexity and increase the capability of enterprise solutions.

Download this whitepaper and learn the top tech projects that organizations could implement before year’s end or to help plan for next year’s budget.

“Innovation” is an overused term. The smallest adjustments, the most trivial enhancements, and the least impactful improvements are often trumpeted as innovative. But every once in a while, something truly groundbreaking and transformative comes our way—disrupting longstanding assumptions and norms in the process. This edition of Unleashing IT showcases Cisco’s holistic approach to the future of networking: application Centric Infrastructure (aCI). Promoted by Cisco, Intel®, and ecosystem partners, aCI is a true innovation that changes the way technology is delivered in support of business priorities

Software Defined Networking For Dummies, Cisco Special Edition, shows you what SDN is, how it works, and how you can choose the right SDN solution. This book also helps you understand the terminology, jargon, and acronyms that are such a part of defining SDN. Along the way, you’ll see some examples of the current state of the art in SDN technology and see how SDN can help your organization.

This document is intended to help network planners, engineers, and managers who are deploying Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in a data center as replacements for Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series Switches.

The pace of change facing Cisco's IT department is accelerating as new applications, particularly from cloud and mobile environments, become key business enablers. Cisco's IT department, which is responsible for 4,067 production applications and inspecting 27TB of data daily, must be able to deploy such applications quickly, securely, and cost-effectively — and then make changes to them or remove them just as quickly and efficiently.

Built for continuous availability in mission-critical data center environments, Cisco NX-OS has set the standard for resiliency, extensibility, efficiency, and virtualization. Now it has added programmability and automation to that list, too. For this episode of TechWiseTV, Robb Boyd talks to two foremost experts in this, the world's most deployed operating system in the data center. They discuss all the exciting changes Cisco has made to NX-OS and, more importantly, how organizations can take full advantage of this automation opportunity. This is truly a deep dive into the full potential of all the components that compose Open NX-OS.

Industrial enterprises around the world are retooling their factories with advanced technologies to boost manufacturing flexibility and speed, achieving new levels of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), supply chain responsiveness, and customer satisfaction in the process. This renaissance reflects very real pressures industry players face today. For years, traditional factories have been operating at a disadvantage, impeded by production environments that are “disconnected”—at the very least strictly gated—to corporate business systems, to supply chains, and to customers and partners. Managers of these traditional factories say the feeling is akin to flying blind. These are operations where plant floors, front offices, and suppliers operate in independent silos, where managers have only hazy visibility into downtime and quality problems, and where the root causes of inefficiencies are rarely understood or addressed.

With 50 to 100 billion things expected to be connected to the Internet by 2020, we are now experiencing a major paradigm shift that is revolutionizing business. More and more of the objects we use every day—including those in our factories, utilities, and railroads—are used to capture and distribute information that is helping us know more and do more. The TechWiseTV team and guest experts take an in-depth look at how industries like these are utilizing the data they are gathering from the factory floor all the way out to the field. This exploration into how the Internet of Things actually works in the real world and what your organization must do to take full advantage of it is a great opportunity to understand the practical challenges and specific technology involved in bringing all this potential to life.

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This IDC study provides a competitive analysis of the enterprise mobility management (EMM) software market for 2014. In addition to a ranking of the top 15 vendors by revenue, it provides an overview of key market trends and vendors that helped shape the market landscape in 2014.

VMware continues to raise the bar in business mobility. It offers the most streamlined process for deployment and management of business mobility solutions through its EUC products, and has given IT administrators the perfect set of options to efficiently manage the challenges of business mobility. The company continues to grow by bringing complete solutions that go beyond simply providing basic client or desktop monitoring services. Frost & Sullivan believes that VMware is in an ideal position to help its customers execute on their next-generation business mobility strategies; based on this analysis Frost & Sullivan recognizes VMware with the 2015 Visionary Innovation Leadership Award.

IT requires a solution that solves the challenge of securing proprietary applications and data in the cloud datacenter and is available only to users and devices that are delegated safe for access. VMware NSX solves this challenge through user-level micro-segmentation. The VMware NSX approach offers several differentiated advantages over traditional security approaches.

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Una de las preguntas más frecuentes de los clientes es ¿cuánto soporte le provee AirWatch a Office 365? Muchos preguntan si AirWatch controla el acceso a Office 365 (O365) en los dispositivos móviles de la misma forma que lo controla en los sistemas de escritorio corporativos. Afortunadamente, AirWatch® by VMware® proporciona todo el soporte que las organizaciones necesitan para aprovechar O365 en los dispositivos móviles, y nuestra reciente integración con VMware® Identity Manager provee el primer marco de control de acceso adaptable en la industria para asegurar que todas las aplicaciones del trabajo, incluyendo O365, estén accesibles solamente en los dispositivos administrados y conformes.

Recentemente, una delle domande più comuni dei clienti è: “In che modo AirWatch supporta Office 365?” Molti chiedono se AirWatch possa controllare l’accesso ad Office 365 (O365) non solo sul loro sistema del desktop aziendale, ma soprattutto dai dispositivi mobili. Per fortuna AirWatch® by VMware® fornisce un alto livello di assistenza in modo che le aziende possano sfruttare al meglio O365 sui loro dispositivi mobili e la nostra recente integrazione con VMware® Identity Manager fornisce il primo framework nel settore del controllo di accesso flessibile per garantire che tutte le applicazioni di lavoro, tra cui O365, possano ottenere l’accesso solo da dispositivi gestiti e conformi.