Earlier this year, I was having a business dinner with an important client in London when I received an IM on my iPhone. The message was from a Cisco colleague, and it said, "I need you to approve a purchase order. Right now." So ...
"You can't manage what you can't measure." So said Dave Evans, Cisco's chief futurist, in his keynote address at Cisco Live 2013. I couldn't agree more! As we usher in a new era of hyperconnectivity, we willseeour environmen...
Remember the time when we were trying to figure out exactly what the Internet was? Web pages and dot coms didn't make complete sense. Wow, how times have changed. Today, our world revolves around the Internet. Most of us connect e...
With so many schools looking to integrate various technologies for things like blended & distance learning, increased staff and student collaboration, and mobility options, many are asking "are we sure we have the necessary in...
How do you turn social media on its head and make it unique for your initiatives? I'm always fascinated to see new approaches to using social media and get inspired by different organizations' creativity. From specific initia...
Today , I metChandra Jacobs, Product Marketing at EMCto talk about her experience at Cisco Live 2013 in Florida and the solutions she presented. Chandra -Can you introduce yourself ? I love creative and challenging pro...
Welcome toanother episode of Engineers Unplugged! This week features Cisco's Andrew Levin (@AndLevin) discussing the use cases for FCOE with Nexus IS's Paul Sferratore (@MadItalianATL). This is a detailed and nuanced debate of the...
Cisco Partner Summit 2013 was an amazing event this year, and as you saw throughout the week, we had lots to tell you about the huge opportunity for partners focused on the midmarket. Partner participation was excellent both...
When we announced Cisco's new environmental sustainability goals, one goal continued to require the most clarification from both internal and external stakeholders: having our corporate electricity emissions factor at half o...
I really do not why I don't care much for Voice Over IP. It's certainly technical. Heck man, if you're stuck on QoS, go ask a voice geek. Resellers are begging for more voice engineers, so it's a great career path. You can rea...
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by two Wireless Networking Group interns, Nonie Grewal and Nivedita Jagdale, to capture their thoughts on the Connected Mobile Experiences Hackathon that they helped plan and execute. June 29thm...
I have been privileged to be part of a very dedicated team of networking subject matter experts for the past 5 years in prepping and running the Ciscolive! event network. Before 2008 the network was installed and monito...