I've been on a journey with my team over the last 18 months to redefine our approach to video collaboration. Vowels form the nucleus of any word, so I call this the A-E-I-O-U approach as it represents the core principles of video ...
This post written by guest blogger Stephanie Cuskley, CEO of NPower Today marks the first day of NPower Canada's Technology Service Corps (TSC) class in Toronto, Canada, a program that will provide underserved youth with prov...
The world of data is changing. Businesses face growth in the volume of information and the types of data they encounter. There are new landscapes of vast and dynamic information that must be processed, managed and analyzed to achi...
On Monday the OpenStack? Summit kicks off in Paris, and estimates are that nearly 4000 people from around the world will be attending what I believe will be the best summit yet. It will also be my ninth summit, so to say that I've...
"Community policing is central to the success of the police mission as we provide quality services to, and build relationships with, our diverse communities." IACP President Yost Zakhary I had the privilege of attending the 20...
It's that time of year again - we're at about T-2.5 weeks to the Supercomputing conference and trade show; SC'14 is in New Orleans, November 16-21. Are you going to get some tasty gumbo and supercharged computing power?...
Clouds come in various flavors, but a common scenario is IT shops who have many applications on-premises (private clouds) and other workloads off-premise (public clouds). This combination of private and public clouds is ofte...
New ISR 4K Routers!I really don't envy the Cisco ISR team. It is really tough to be a leader and still out perform yourselves on a consistent basis. One could argue there is nowhere to go but down. I think is cool that...
As enterprise cloud use expands rapidly to include public, private, and hybrid clouds, CIOs need to evolve their IT business model and become enterprise cloud service brokerage (CSBs). A cloud service brokerage, as defined by...
If you have been following Cisco Blogs, attending CiscoLive, or reading industry publications like Network World, you've probably heard about Cisco's Intelligent WAN or IWAN solution. For those of you that haven't been in th...
Cisco, in its quest to embrace programmability, has created what is called the ACI Toolkit, which is basically a combination of an NX-OS like CLI and some custom python scripts. Although this toolkit doesn't allow you to do all co...
Jimmy Ray never reads directionsJust another Call Center? Initially, I was not too excited about doing a show on TAC, Cisco's Technical Assistance Center. This topic has been requested in various forms throughout t...