My last post was all about finding IPv6 prefixes on the IPv6 Internet. I think the next natural question is "What about IPv6 traffic?" or more specifically, "What about IPv6 traffic on my network?" In this post, I'll talk about so...
Employees, and many business, want to allow personal devices to be used at work, and potentially for work. However, balancing that with corporate policies for information security, clear rights-of-use, liability, and then bounding...
Today's always-on, connected lifestyles and business practices have reached new levels according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. In fact, in the next five years, wor...
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...
We've mentioned earlier that Cisco is again a platinum sponsor at this year's Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. We'll showcase UCS, UCS Manager, PowerTool for PowerShell, and many other management solutions and technologie...
In this blog, let us take a look at how Catalyst access switches enable and enforce context aware access to IT resources. Many types of devices, including laptops, smartphones, and tablets, are used by end users to connect to the ...
Now available for existing customers of Tidal Enterprise scheduler with native support for MapR. Why is this big news?It means that workloads can now move between existing FTP, S3 buckets, ERP, Business intelligence and Hadoop HDF...
Each year the Schwab Foundation presents Social Entrepreneur of the Year awards to people who apply innovative, practical approaches to resolving social and environmental challenges. Three of the 24 awardees announced on February ...
What are you doing on April 18 & 19th, 2013?Mark your calendar for a social media event with Cisco! This event is titled Social Media for Savvy Marketers. You can join this event live or connect via our live webcast. Registrat...
Virtualization on the plant floor "While IT networks already use virtualization extensively, its benefits are moving into industrial networks. Five diverse viewpoints on its advantages and implementation are offered." Great art...
When customers look to deploy their Hadoop solutions, one of the first questions they ask is, which distro should we run it on? For many enterprise customers, the answer has been MapR. For those of you not familiar with MapR, they...
Many organizations are getting on board with the cloud. But the transition can be tough. There are many aspects to consider before going virtual, including security, possible downtime, application migration, and ease of deployment...