For quite some time now, I've been thinking about writing a book. A book about social media. A book about what I've seen and learned. A book about things I would like to see. A book about strategy -I love strategy. ...
Welcome back to the final episode of Engineers Unplugged, Season 3! It's been quite a ride. This week, we take another viewpoint on the hot topic of software defined storage with Mike Slisinger (@slisinger) and Vaughn Stewart (@vs...
Next week at Oracle OpenWorld, I will be giving an abbreviated theater presentation on how Cisco UCS is changing the economics of the datacenter (full presentation below). If you will be at OOW, please stop by the Cisco booth (#10...
It's that time of year again-consider this post your friendly T-7 notice to start preparing for the final Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication of 2013! As a reminder, the Cisco Product Security Incident Respons...
It's certainly true that voice isn't my favorite technology. Not that is bad or that I dislike it...it just doesn't hold my interest like routing and switching or data center or even wireless. Man I just fall all over myself on th...
Beginning in early May, Cisco TRAC has observed a number of malicious redirects that appear to be part of a watering-hole style attack targeting the Energy & Oil sector. The structure consists of several compromised domains, o...
The slides below are from my presentation at EuroMPI'13 about Open MPI's flexible process affinity interface (in OMPI 1.7.2 and later). I described this system in a prior blog entries (one, two, three), but many people keep ...
This past week, the Meeting of the Minds convened in Toronto, Canada with more than 375 invited CXOs debating the convergence of urban sustainability and connected technologies. During the three-day summit, a variety of smart publ...
Last month, the Internet of Things was added to Oxford Dictionaries Online. IoT was added along with such august terms as BYOD, Bitcoin, and even selfie. While the ODO isn't the OED -it's the younger, hipper sibling fo...
Cisco Catalyst 2960-X is our greenest Catalyst access switch ever. If all similar switches shipped in 2012 were as energy efficient as Catalyst 2960-X, you would save enough energy to power every household in San Francisco for mor...
As a working mom of two of the best and brightest kids (no bias here!) I couldn't be prouder that Cisco again made the Working Mother 100 Best Companies list. When you think about it though, "Mother" is a bit of a misnomer h...
Your smart sprinkler system is happily pumping water to your lawn in highly efficient sprays that are "aware" of the soil, the climate, the weather, the time of day, and even whether or not your kids are playing in the backyard on...