In recent weeks, I had the opportunity to attend F5 Agility US and Australia, and meet with several customers and partners of Cisco and F5. It was evident from these events that there is an increasing momentum in deploying F5 appl...
Off To Amsterdam and IBC with Infinite Video For Mobile Operators What's Driving the Interest in Mobile Video? According to the 2016 Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index, mobile is the#1 consumer device and Video is driving the n...
This blog authored by Nick Biasini. Exploit kits are a class of threat that indiscriminately aims to compromise all users. Talos has continued to monitor this threat over time resulting in large scale research and even resulting i...
I've written in the past about the opportunity for Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) -providing self-service provisioning, elastic scaling, and support for multi-tenancy. But in my discussions with customers over the past year, it's beco...
I fly quite a bit for my job as a Security Services consultant for Cisco. I'm one of billions of passengers traveling annually: according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), passenger numbers are expected to rea...
It's nearly IBC time, which means that some 55,000-ish of us are about to pack up for the massive RAI Amsterdam exhibit hall(s!) for five days of mediaandentertainment convention bliss. This also means it's that time when people s...
Delany College is a small school in the heart of western Sydney, and is a prime example of educational innovation and student engagement. To deliver and improve pedagogy at their school, Delany College partnered with Cisco to impl...
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If you are like me -all the cloud management tools sound the same. Vendors all use the same words to describe very different solutions. Hybrid. Platform. Automation. Service. So to help you figure out what the words mean, I've rec...
Digital transformation is happening NOW. Your smartphone is your bank branch. Your mouse and PC are quickly replacing brick and mortar stores. As consumers, we have the tendency to seek alternatives when we don'...
Rick Rubin is one of the most prolific producers in the history of music. If you haven't heard of Rubin, he has worked with some of the best known artists in the world such as Johnny Cash, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty, the...
Originally published in the book:Gray, Ken & Nadeau, Thomas. Network Function Virtualization, 1st Edition. (2016). Morgan Kaufman, also available here. This book by Ken and Tom on NFV is perhaps the first time they've lai...