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Cloud computing is rapidly transforming businesses and organizations of all sizes across all industries. Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) has been at the forefront of this change—helping customers fuel top-line growth through greater business agility, reach, and scalability, while improving their bottom line by reducing total cost of ownership and bolstering employee productivity. This Cloud Thought Leadership site compiles all of Cisco IBSG’s cloud-related materials in one place, making it easy for you to search for and find the information you’re looking for.
Riding the Cloud To Improve Your Top- and Bottom-Line Economics 
The steps required for successful cloud adoption, including an interactive tool to help organizations assess IT and business benefits.
The Cloud Value Chain Exposed
Key Takeaways for Network Service Providers
The Business Value of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing offers a host of business benefits that fuel top-line growth while also delivering bottom-line impact. These include TCO reductions of more than 50 percent and the ability to reduce time to market from days to minutes. By fostering business agility and delivering compelling economics, "the world of many clouds" helps provide certainty in uncertain times.
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Cloud Value Proposition
Cloud transforms consumer experience and spurs value creation for Service Providers
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Stairway to Heaven: Five Steps to Cloud Readiness
Cloud computing is an economic shift, not a technology shift. Cloud is gaining momentum because of its compelling economic advantages.
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Acceleration to the Cloud
Enterprises are embracing data center virtualization and cloud services to achieve cost savings, but even more important, to support business agility—it is not a matter of if, but rather how much and how fast.
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Customer Success
BT Group
Cloud-Based Virtual Data Center Helps BT Improve Performance, Scalability, Efficiency, and Customer Satisfaction
Cisco IBSG and Savvis: Accelerating the Cloud Market
Cisco IBSG performed original research and helped Savvis to develop a go-to-market strategy for managed cloud services.
New Operating Model Helps Vodafone Generate Incremental Revenue, Cut Costs, and Improve Time to Market
New operating model helps Vodafone generate incremental revenue, cut costs, and improve time to market.
Professional Services for Cloud
A Winning Ingredient for Service Provider Success
Consumer Cloud Demand
Based on Connected Life Market Watch research from Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group, this presentation discusses how service providers can significantly increase adoption of Connected Life services by strategically including cloud enhancements with their offerings.
The Cloud Value Chain Exposed
Key Takeaways for Network Service Providers
Cloud Value Proposition
Cloud transforms consumer experience and spurs value creation for Service Providers
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Network Service Providers as Cloud Providers
Survey results that show migration to Cloud Computing is happening fast. The survey points to a compelling economic proposition for enterprises and significant opportunities for service providers.
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Mobile
The Mobile Cloud: When Two Explosive Markets Collide
Cisco IBSG Research Uncovers New Opportunities for SPs To Prosper in This Rapidly Growing and Evolving Market
Taking Care of Business in the Mobile Cloud
Cisco IBSG Research Uncovers New Opportunities for SPs To Prosper in the Mobile Cloud Market
Mobile Consumers Reach for the Clouds
Cisco IBSG Research Uncovers Opportunities for SPs To Prosper in Mobile Cloud Market
A "Marriage Made in Heaven": Mobile Devices Meet the Mobile Cloud
Cisco IBSG Research Uncovers New Opportunities for SPs To Prosper in Mobile Cloud Market
Mobile Cloud
An explanation of what mobile cloud is, and its potential for delivery of true n-screen and n-persona, with a wealth of new apps and capabilities.
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Customer Success
BT Group
Cloud-Based Virtual Data Center Helps BT Improve Performance, Scalability, Efficiency, and Customer Satisfaction
Cisco IBSG and Savvis: Accelerating the Cloud Market
Cisco IBSG performed original research and helped Savvis to develop a go-to-market strategy for managed cloud services.
New Operating Model Helps Vodafone Generate Incremental Revenue, Cut Costs, and Improve Time to Market
New operating model helps Vodafone generate incremental revenue, cut costs, and improve time to market.
Enterprise Journey to the Clouds
Understanding decision makers’ current and forward thinking, strategy, and implementation around cloud, including their answers to the overarching question: "How is the enterprise journey to the cloud progressing?"
Riding the Cloud To Improve Your Top- and Bottom-Line Economics
The steps required for successful cloud adoption, including an interactive tool to help organizations assess IT and business benefits.
Achieving Retail Agility: Is Cloud Computing the Answer?
Cloud computing encompasses a combination of well-tested IT best practices that are already speeding time to market, accelerating innovation, lowering costs, and improving management for leading retailers.
Cisco IBSG Predicts Emergence of Global Connected Marketplaces
How Companies Can Use the Cloud To Adapt and Thrive in a Rapidly Shifting Financial Marketplace
Network Service Providers as Cloud Providers
Survey results that show migration to Cloud Computing is happening fast. The survey points to a compelling economic proposition for enterprises and significant opportunities for service providers.
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Cloud Computing and the Digital Divide
Transforming SMBs in Emerging Markets
Consumer Cloud Demand
Based on Connected Life Market Watch research from Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group, this presentation discusses how service providers can significantly increase adoption of Connected Life services by strategically including cloud enhancements with their offerings.
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SMB Public Cloud Adoption: Opening a Hidden Market
Public cloud service providers that offer SaaS capabilities to micro-SMBs will uncover a large incremental—and highly profitable—market.
New Cisco IBSG Research Reveals Dramatic Growth in Cloud Interest Among SMBs
Recent survey research focused on the interest of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in cloud and managed services.
Connected Life Market Watch: Service Delivery and Consumer Cloud (U.S.)
Consumers are more likely to adopt Connected Life services when they include cloud enhancements. In a recent survey, 75 percent of consumers said that it was "critical, differentiating, or mandatory" for SPs to offer at least one cloud enhancement.
Small Businesses Ride the Cloud: SMB Cloud Watch
Understand the specific role and opportunity for service providers, and how they might differentiate their cloud offers to SMBs.
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Cloud Computing in the Public Sector
Great opportunities and significant challenges posed by cloud computing for the public sector.
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Cloud Computing in the Public Sector
Public Manager’s Guide to Evaluating and Adopting Cloud Computing