I recently created a playlist of my favorite 80's, 90's and current songs. Listening to the playlist in shuffle mode, I noticed the stark contrast and evolution of the recording quality from the old classics to the current stuff. ...
Today's threat landscape is completely different than last year; and next years will be, not surprisingly, even worse. The Industrialization of Hacking has spawned a new era of professional, entrepreneurial, and resourceful cyber ...
Congress has now approved a landmark trade package including Trade Promotion Authority and Trade Adjustment Assistance. This is a significant accomplishment that just a week ago looked in serious doubt. This trade package wi...
I talk to partners every day about the big data opportunity. We know that partners who sell UCS see dramatically larger deal sizes for big data opportunities. We know all of this and still there is a lot of caution and skept...
Last week I had the wonderful honor of being a presenter in the Cisco Networking Academy Find Yourself in The Future Series. To date this series has attracted over 9000 live attendees, which is testament to the extremely high leve...
Given the breakneck pace of technology change, business leaders can be forgiven for feeling as if they are living in a vortex. That's because, in many ways, they are. In a real vortex, rotational forces draw everything to the cent...
"Drill, baby, drill" makes for an easy mantra when it comes to energy exploration, but the oil and gas (O&G) industry moved past simply drilling long ago with the introduction of digital information processing. For example, in...
Parenting in a hyper-connected world is increasingly challenged by lack of visibility into children's internet usage, and by limited controls to customize internet usage policies per child. About a year ago, I installed a home rou...
It's no secret, networks, in general, are more challenging to manage than before. As networks increase in complexity to embrace new business innovations, they may require more supporting devices, which, in turn, can result in even...
Earlier this Year, Cisco introduced the Cisco ASA 5506-X with FirePOWER Services. This Model should replace the successful and smallest Security Solution, the ASA 5505. Designed for the Small Business and a new era of threat and a...
In the past couple of years, I have been delighted to see how the digital revolution has accelerated the pace of innovation at warp speed. It has been even more gratifying, however, to experience how this trend has disrupted tradi...
It seems like once a week I come across an article about how mobile devices will revolutionize customer care. To some degree, the articles all share a theme: "Make your life simpler with anytime anywhere access to... your bank, in...