There's a great sketch that Louis CK does about our impatience with technology and how much we've come to take it for granted. Our ability to connect from anywhere has raised our expectations for being able to instantly get or do ...
I often find myself with colleagues and friends having an app discussion that at times feels like an exciting discovery session and other times feels like an "app showdown". It's either a case of "Wow, that's cool", or "My apps ar...
Salem Health is a network of hospitals, rehab facilities, and physician clinics located in the Pacific Northwest. The organization was experiencing major performance issues with their IT infrastructure, which was hurting business ...
Our Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data has been gaining momentum as a viable platform for enterprise big data deployments. The newest addition to the portfolio is EMC's new Pivotal HD? that natively integrates Gr...
Over the past 2 months or so, I've been blogging on Cisco Domain TenSM, Cisco Service's framework to guide you on your path to data center and cloud transformation. We are just over half way through the discussion on Cisco D...
This six-part series focuses on transformation of the traditional higher education system in the United States. This part focuses on the fact that universities are more similar than they are different. Universities in ...
In the first few posts in this series, we have hopefully shown that not all cores are created equal and that not all GHz are created equal. This generates challenges when comparing two CPUs within a processor family and even great...
In case you missed it, Network World's Ellen Messmer published a rather surprising article on how Dell was going to "trump" Cisco in the information security market as a result of some recent acquisitions. Now certainly Dell is en...
Mobile carriers face no shortage of pain points as new data streams create unprecedented and staggering amounts of information. But it is important to remember that pain points often arrive in tandem with new opportunities. From m...
School, college and university systems are facing unprecedented challenges. Education leaders are capitalizing on new technology trends to face these challenges, drive innovation and transform education. These themes, and more, wi...
There's been a lot of buzz around our recent Cisco Unified Access Solution announcement. We understand there is also some confusion around what's what, what's required for Unified Access, and what the impact will be on IT. In true...
In my previous blog, I walked you through the Cisco Remote Expert Smart Solution for Retail demo that I presented at NRF. This solution helps retailers catch, keep, and entice customers to buy and buy more. This solution was explo...