Over 300 Service Providers Now Offering Cisco Based Managed Services for Branch Offices

There are many facts that point to continuing growth in branch office deployments, and the realization that application delivery has become data-center and branch office focused. Delivering business innovation to branch office locations has always been challenging with few, if any, IT personal on site, in-consistent application and service delivery among branches and employee demands for higher levels of business services that are available at headquarter facilities. In the current difficult macro economic scenario managed services offers the favorable trade-off of capital plus salary cost for facilities cost; lowering operational spend. Joel Conover Sr. Manager, Network Systems Marketing at Cisco Systems joins me to discuss IT leader’s options to accelerate business innovation while lowering operational spend through managed services delivered by service providers harnessing the power of Cisco’s Empowered Branch solution. If you are looking for a new model to deliver branch office innovation and cut capital costs, then you have to listen to this podcast