--- title: Lean IT, future-ready: Three “ah-ha!” moments when small... description: Three Cisco customers — creative agency VaynerX, YMCA of Niagara, and fashion retailer SAMSØE SAMSØE — share how adopting Cisco Meraki's cloud-managed... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/lean-it-future-ready-three-ah-ha-moments-when-small-teams-think-big-s4ca84jra twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Lean IT, future-ready: Three “ah-ha!” moments when small teams think big | daily.dev og:description: Three Cisco customers — creative agency VaynerX, YMCA of Niagara, and fashion retailer SAMSØE SAMSØE — share how adopting Cisco Meraki's cloud-managed... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/lean-it-future-ready-three-ah-ha-moments-when-small-teams-think-big-s4ca84jra og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/S4cA84Jra.png og:image:alt: Lean IT, future-ready: Three “ah-ha!” moments when small teams think big og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Lean IT, future-ready: Three “ah-ha!” moments when small teams think big **[Cisco](https://daily.dev/sources/cisco)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Three Cisco customers — creative agency VaynerX, YMCA of Niagara, and fashion retailer SAMSØE SAMSØE — share how adopting Cisco Meraki's cloud-managed networking platform transformed their IT operations. VaynerX reduced infrastructure costs by 25–30% and cut incidents by 40%. YMCA of Niagara dropped support incidents by 70% and MTTR by 80% across 125 distributed sites. SAMSØE SAMSØE now launches new stores with 66% less IT effort and eliminated all wired connections at headquarters, saving 1.5 million Danish krone. The common thread: unifying networking and security in a single cloud-managed platform turns IT from a cost center into a growth enabler. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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