By
Kerry Doyle, Contributing Writer
OnX recently announced it has achieved the Cisco Cloud Provider Certification with a Cisco Powered Cloud to support the expanding role of the network in deploying cloud services.
Cisco Systems (News 
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This change heralds a completely new approach to understanding data sets, and will require new capabilities to perform fast, efficient data analysis. It will also mean new hardware and software resources as well as the ability to manage large-scale unified computing systems (UCS) deployments.
A Cisco Powered Cloud essentially means capabilities for providing customers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) on an as-needed basis. These new advances not only help customers access better cloud services; they also let developers deploy business applications faster. The onset of the 24/7 business cycle has also required the broad consolidation of communication tools and their integration with the datacenter... Read More
