Sunday 29 May 2016

CISCO Awards CloudHPT as the Master Cloud & Managed Services Partner of the Year

CloudHPT has been awarded that prestigious award Announced the "Cisco Master Managed Services Cloud & Partner of the Year". Cisco unveiled the winners knew Partner Summit in the UAE attended by over 200 partners, including delegates CXOs Technical and Vocational High Level at the Ritz Carlton in Dubai, UAE on May 24, 2016.

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Cloud and Master Managed Services Partner of the Year recognized CloudHPT As the first and only cloud to Achieve partner and Services Master Certification in UAE managed, a record performance in Q1 2016.

Innovative Approach to provide quality services and low latency enterprise cloud TX Local T4 DC and 24/7 support team and strong as a difference CloudHPT Leading Provider of Managed Services cloud.

"We are proud results we achieved and we recognize the strategic importance of offering cloud solutions in the UAE," said Adam Wolf, Technical Director, CloudHPT. "This demonstrates our commitment to achieve vy maintain A s position leading reference in the Cisco ecosystem partners. We are working closely with Cisco's captured the market trends, such as cloud, the IO are the main volumes of data, while transforming for growth and profitability. "

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Sunday 22 May 2016

Cisco Stock: This Could Be Massive for Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco biggest gain in value?

If Cisco Systems, Inc.  stock was not on their watch list before, it must be now. Why? The network equipment company could be on the verge of its next big rally.

I explain ...

What Piper Jaffray, Oppenheimer, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and Jefferies Group have in common? They all gave the Cisco stocks a recommendation from "buy" on Thursday. (Source: "Cisco Systems Company Profile" market coup, last accessed 19 May 2016)

Of course, analysts do not always right. But for all these companies to evaluate a "Buy" in an action, you have something special.

Price targets are rather optimistic, too. For example, the Deutsche Bank has a target of $ 33.00 $ 35.00 price of shares of Cisco. In the middle, this would imply an increase of 23.3%, even after the rise on Thursday. (Source: Ibid.)

You could say that the mere possibility of 23% is not much in the area of ​​technology today, and see how a little broth streaming video won last year. But it's really not a fair comparison. You see, while Cisco is a high-tech company, which is not a disruptive stronger. The company has already established its presence. It has existed for over three decades.

In fact, Cisco could almost be considered as a social income today. With a dividend yield of 3.92%, which is impressive in the world of technology. In addition, since the company began paying quarterly dividends in 2011 it increased seven times since its dividend. (Source: "dividends and splits", Cisco Systems, Inc., entered May 19, 2016.)

If the action can offer capital gains with his beautiful dividend yield would be even better. And a strong earnings report is certainly a good way to spark a rally.

In the third quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2016, which generated revenues of $ 12.0 billion, representing an increase of three percent YoY. The number of revenue also exceeded Wall Street estimates of $ 11.97 billion. (Source: "Cisco Reports Third Quarter Results", Cisco Systems, Inc., May 18, 2016.)

Earnings per share (EPS) were better than expected as well. During the quarter, Cisco adjusted EPS rose six percent annually to $ 0.57, which also exceeded the estimate of $ 0.55 by analysts. (Source: Ibid.)

Note that in the current economic environment, growth of Cisco's business will not be as it was in the nineties. At the same time, business spending has been very strong. In particular, many companies outsource their work computer for cloud service providers like Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft Corporation
The combination of slow growth macro environment with the tendency to move to cloud computing, the outlook does not come out really optimistic for Cisco. And indeed, these concerns have been a drag on shares of Cisco, which had a negative performance over the last 12 months.

However, the company said, things could not be as bad as analysts expected.

For the current quarter, Cisco expects revenue are in the range of $ 12.36 billion to $ 12.73 billion, which is better than analyst expectations of $ 12.4 billion, for most. The company also expects earnings of between $ 0.59 and $ 0.61 per share, which is at the top of the new estimate of $ 0.58 Wall Street. (Source: Ibid.)

Another reason why investors warmed to store the profitability of Cisco. Normally, when an established and oriented headwinds, industry margins are expected to decline. But this is not the case with Cisco. In its fiscal third quarter, gross margin Cisco products reached 63.8%, representing an expansion of 220 basis points compared with the period last year. During the quarter, the company expects its gross margin is between 63% and 64%

Friday 20 May 2016

200-120 Exam Question No 54

Question No 54:

 Refer to the exhibit.

The output that is shown is generated at a switch. Which three statements are true? (Choose three.)



A.
All ports will be in a state of discarding, learning, or forwarding.
B.
Thirty VLANs have been configured on this switch.
C.
The bridge priority is lower than the default value for spanning tree.
D.
All interfaces that are shown are on shared media.
E.
All designated ports are in a forwarding state.
F.
This switch must be the root bridge for all VLANs on this switch.

Answer: ACE

Sunday 15 May 2016

3 Stocks to Watch Next Week: Cisco, Salesforce, and Wal-Mart

Despite macroeconomic uncertainty, networking giant Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) aims to increase revenue in its fiscal third quarter, results for which will be announced on Wednesday. weak fast growing segment of Cisco data centers in the second quarter is approaching, but the company expected to be a temporary problem. The security sector is still growing rapidly, with Cisco to become a diversified provider of security solutions.

the software provider of customer relationship management (CRM) Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) also report results on Wednesday. The company continues to grow rapidly and produce a lot of free cash flow, but results in accordance with GAAP Salesforce remain essentially nonexistent. Free cash flow is far from perfect, and Salesforce finally prove to investors that can produce consistent profits.


After some terrible results colleagues retailers, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) were informed of its first quarter results on Thursday. Proceeds will have a success due to the higher wages and investments in training and e-commerce, but Wal-Mart expected to increase same-store sales to the United States. One of the e-commerce initiatives Wal-Mart, grocery order online and pick up, looks particularly promising.

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Friday 13 May 2016

200-120 Exam Question No 53

Question No 53:

Which three of these statements regarding 802.1Q trunking are correct? (Choose three.)

A.
802.1Q native VLAN frames are untagged by default.
B. 802.1Q trunking ports can also be secure ports.
C. 802.1Q trunks can use 10 Mb/s Ethernet interfaces.
D. 802.1Q trunks require full-duplex, point-to-point connectivity.
E.
802.1Q trunks should have native VLANs that are the same at both ends.

Answer: A, C, E

Friday 6 May 2016

200-120 Exam Question No 52

Question No 52:

Refer to Exhibit: 


How many broadcast domains are shown in the graphic assuming only the default VLAN is configured on the switches?

A.
One
B.
Two
C.
Six
D.
Twelve

Answer: A

Sunday 1 May 2016

Cisco Exec: Strong HyperFlex Demand Is Delaying Partner Shipments

 Cisco Exec: Strong HyperFlex Demand Is Delaying Partner Shipments, But We're Stepping Up Manufacturing:

Cisco Systems said Friday that saw customer interest in higher than expected HyperFlex, its foray into the hyper-convergence market, which has led to delays in shipping the product to partners for testing purposes.

"We value customer orders [of HyperFlex], which delayed delivery partners who wish to obtain laboratory equipment," Todd Brannon, director of product marketing for Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) servers, said in CRN an interview. "He told us we would have a ramp production of six to eight weeks and we have done that."

Several partners told CRN earlier this week that Cisco extended the deadline for submissions HyperFlex channel indefinitely after initially saying they had received in March.

 Brannon recognizes shipping delays and said Cisco has responded by intensifying production HyperFlex.

"It speaks of the frustration of members. Everyone wants to get [HyperFlex] gear in their laboratories," he said. "We have increased the prognosis and get the materials to do so. This is definitely temporary."

Over the next two months, running within two weeks between ordering and fulfillment that is the standard for the UCS, Cisco HyperFlex Brannon said.

HyperFlex, unveiled in early March, married with Cisco UCS servers with storage technology defined by the software developed in partnership with Springpath, a company founded by former engineers VMware storage. Springpath HX platform data storage pools conventional semiconductors and hard drives and turns it into a business system object storage.

Some Cisco partners told CRN that are concerned that version 1.0 of HyperFlex lacks features found in competing products, such as coding erase, which breaks the data into pieces and stored in a variety of places communication and media types

 Brannon said Cisco HyperFlex not use encryption or deletion of RAID storage - another technology used to build resilience storage - because Springpath file system is specifically designed for hyper-convergence and provides better performance.

Members also noted that HyperFlex is not compatible with all arrays in flash memory, but Brannon says that is by design. "We do not want to make use of all flash memory arrays to hyper-convergence because there is a tax hefty price," he said. "Hyper-Startups convergent use of all flash in a way that we do not believe it to be effective."

 intensive workloads the data are an example where flash is useful, but customers tend to run the bare metal, according to Brannon.

"If someone is looking for a system based on all-flash system, it is likely that they will target a Flexpod" Brannon said, referring to the converged infrastructure that combines Cisco UCS servers with NetApp storage and marketed jointly by suppliers and partners.

Cisco is planning HyperFlex sales and marketing training available to all 2,152 of its partners worldwide UCS, Brannon said. Cisco focuses on its main partners UCS 125, but expects to have 900 members UCS formed in late July, he said.

 Meanwhile, Cisco was a late entrant to the convergence hyper-space and catch up.

Nutanix, offering superior service in the hyper-convergence space, with more than $ 312 million in financing, is expected to have its initial public offering in the coming weeks. SimpliVity, player # 2 with more than $ 276 million in funds, said he has seen good results as well.

Dynamic new companies creation and improvements in version 6.2 of VMware his VSAN technology, are pressure ratchet Cisco HyperFlex on the market soon.

Brannon agreed, but said that Cisco hopes that customers adopt HyperFlex as something different and unique to the current offer on the market.

"The new companies have created a lot of mind share around the hyper-converged infrastructure, and certainly a wake join a market that is about to take off," Brannon said.

"What is essential is to get to market with a product hyper-convergent this year, and we did. So we focus on deliveries to customers."