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Give users what they need to do business — when, where, and how they need it.

The economic and agility benefits of cloud technology are propelling significant change in the delivery and consumption of IT services, applications, and content. As consumers of cloud-hosted services from Cisco and our partners, organizations can take advantage of flexible deployment models to gain access to end-to-end, enterprise-class applications.

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Cisco WebEx Cloud

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Collaboration in the Cloud

Cloud Services increase deployment flexibility and collaboration capabilities.

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Why Cloud for Service Delivery?

Clouds provide a new level of flexibility in application and data delivery. Provisioning applications and services from a cloud can give you the operational benefits without the capital expenses of maintaining on-premises environments.

IT is focusing more on service delivery as content and services are increasingly being delivered on demand and on the move. Enterprises can achieve significant benefits, including the ability to:

Deliver consistency of service across devices
Ensure access to always-current versions of applications
Support a self-serve model of procurement
Enable rapid deployment at scale
Shift IT spending from capital to operating expenses
Focus on core versus context as appropriate

Why Cisco for Cloud Services?

Cisco is focused on enabling a compelling user experience with every service delivered from the cloud. These services can be provided anywhere, on any device, at any time with the security, performance, and reliability previously possible only with traditional on-premises deployments. Specific benefits include the following.

Interoperability - Protect your existing IT investments. If, like many companies, you rely on Microsoft desktop productivity applications, the Cisco WebEx Cloud can provide user-availability information (presence) directly within Microsoft Office applications.
Integration - Integrate new features from Cisco WebEx Cloud into your existing business applications. It's not about ripping and replacing everything, but taking advantage of enhancements that improve business processes.
Maintenance - Cloud applications help you minimize time and effort spent deploying new and upgraded applications, reduce risks of technology obsolescence, and do not require updates to on-premises equipment.
Scale - Cloud solutions deliver superior scale for multiparty voice and video conferencing.

Unify, Simplify, Integrate to Collaborate

The Cisco WebEx Cloud is a highly available and secure service-delivery platform, offering easy deployment and application delivery. Because applications are provisioned through clouds, users automatically have access to the latest versions, and can collaborate when, where, and how they need to.

Cisco WebEx Cloud applications include:

Cisco WebEx Meetings Web Conferencing

Manage the entire meeting lifecycle, supporting pre-work, conferencing, follow-up, and related content
Increase productivity and accelerate results with the ability to meet anytime, anywhere, even on mobile devices.
Deliver cost-effective collaborative meetings, training sessions, sales presentations, online events, and support sessions

Cisco WebEx Connect Instant Messaging and Presence

Work from any workspace on any device with instant messaging and presence services
Know who is available, and choose how to interact with them: message, mail, phone, or video
Enjoy a full-featured, consistent experience across PCs, Macs, tablets, and mobile phones

Cisco WebEx Social Enterprise Social Platform

Work from any workspace on any device with instant messaging and presence services
Instantly share information and knowledge across teams, departments, and geographies
Help enable employees anywhere to quickly find the people and resources they need to get work done
Create and capture intellectual capital in one highly secure, centralized location

Cisco WebEx Telepresence

Get a subscription service for small and medium-sized businesses hosted by Cisco and offered by partners
Be up and running in minutes with easy service activation; receive 24-hour business-class support from Cisco
See, hear, and share with colleagues, partners, and suppliers through unlimited video calling to any standard-based telepresence or video system

Cisco Cloud Security includes:

Protect cloud infrastructure and resources from attacks and breaches
Enable cloud-based security intelligence and services to defend against malware and targeted attacks
Provide trusted access and highly secure communications for improved security posture and controls

Enabling Partners to Deliver

Cisco helps enable providers to deliver services with integrated, pre-tested Cisco and partner infrastructure solutions. Building upon Cisco Validated Designs, partners can offer cloud and collaboration services that support your business priorities and are based on:

The continuously evolving portfolio of Cisco Collaboration solutions (on demand)
Architectural blueprints and light-touch services that help ensure security and full management across the collaboration suite
A consistent multimedia user experience anywhere, with any content, on any device, in any consumption model

Cisco partners offer the following Cisco Cloud Services:

Collaboration Solutions

For Collaboration solutions the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (Cisco HCS) enables Cisco partners to host the full Cisco Collaboration portfolio within their own cloud infrastructure and offer services directly customers looking to leverage the benefits of the cloud.

The workloads offered within Cisco HCS are:

Unified Communications & Mobility
Collaboration Applications
TelePresence
Customer Collaboration

Video Media and Entertainment Solutions

Cisco Videoscape Cloud Solutions enable Cisco's media and entertainment customers to power next generation TV experience, to any screen.

The cloud-based service delivery provides flexibility and service elasticity that allows rapid response to changing customer dynamics with lower upfront capital investments.

Third-Party Services:

The Cisco strategy includes support for third-party cloud services with a broad ecosystem of Cisco UCS Certified Cloud Applications and Services technology partners, enabled in part through the Cisco Developer Community. This ecosystem addresses a broad range of operating systems and includes pre-tested applications and tools for:

Systems management
Service orchestration
Monitoring and analysis
Deployment and configuration
Subscriber data management, policy control, and service control

Cisco works to provide fully tested, integrated solutions with industry-leading partners, including EMC, NetApp, VMware, BMC, CA, and RedHat. This integration offers a choice of complete solutions that can dramatically reduce time and complexity of cloud services deployment.

This comprehensive set of integrated solutions is designed to help companies accelerate cloud success and realize the full value of their cloud implementation. Examples include: