To put it simply, there is a tremendous opportunity for Cisco partners to make money leveraging ThousandEyes. It’s no secret that your customers’ success depends on the digital experiences they provide to their customers and employees. Delivering suboptimal application user experiences can damage the reputation of a business and reduce its top-line revenue. And if your customers are not using ThousandEyes, they may have Internet blind spots that put them at risk of delivering degraded digital experiences.

Modernizing the foundation is key to unlocking digital value with every industry. We have customers across various verticals looking to elevate their IT strategy by modernizing their infrastructure within the next few years. A few common themes arose from these conversations that we expect to see in 2022 and beyond.

It’s a common occurrence in many data centers: systems are running at peak capacity, workload demands are increasing, and it’s time to plan for the next server refresh cycle. But all too often, organizations take the path of least resistance and simply augment existing server resources with more of the same – a “go with what you know” approach.

Accuracy in business processes has always been important, but it used to require tedious, error-prone manual processes to achieve. Today, accuracy and automation go hand-in-hand. For an easily recognizable example, just look at how modern retail stores manage their inventory. If stock runs low on certain items, the store will automatically kick off a stock replenishment process requesting that it be replaced.

Like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the IT foundation – compute, storage, network – are the food, safety, psychological and self-actualizing resources needed to run applications and access data at a fundamental level. Without them, cloud is not achievable at the scale and performance level companies need on their digital journey. Still, we run into companies who question whether their existing foundation needs to be modernized at all. Let’s discuss why “Modernize the Foundation” is such an area of focus.

Imagine the following scenario for an online retailer: During a holiday weekend, the retailer sees a dramatic spike in site visitors after heavily promoting a sales event. On Tuesday morning, the sales and marketing teams meet to review the results. To everyone’s surprise, the spike in traffic resulted in very few sales. Interestingly, the report shows that many site visitors were deep into the sales process before abandoning their carts. For the rest of the week, the staff proposes several theories regarding why visitors didn’t complete their purchases.

For more than 20 years, Presidio has been an influential force in solving challenging problems with simplified solutions across the Enterprise and beyond. Presidio’s focus is on transforming where and how our clients work, modernizing their infrastructure to prepare them for future scale. We help ensure that they have adopted the right cloud strategy, securing everything from the edge devices that sit on the perimeter, across multiple connectivity methods and large data lakes, and through the cloud.