The Cisco Networking Academy NetRiders competition champions have been enjoying a whirlwind tour of the Cisco San Jose campus and Silicon Valley this week. Their agenda has included both technical sites and locations of scenic and...
As my colleagues just wrapped up participating in the 2-day World Congress Telehealth Executive Summit and are preparing for the 6th Annual Community for Connected Health Summit at HIMSS13, I've been thinking even more about teleh...
By Biren Mehta, Senior Marketing Manager, SP Marketing in Routing and Switching, Cisco Have you ever tried to order a pizza that 20 different people would enjoy? Just imagine getting twenty companies to agree upon a vigorous...
In my previous blog post I discussed the format of GSX (Cisco's annual global sales meeting) and tactics deployed to listen to, engage with, and motivate the audience. In this blog post I am going to dive into new approaches we to...
Choosing the right compute platform for your VDI environment requires both science and art. You have to balance CPU and memory characteristics against your expected workload profile and your desired density. At the end of the day,...
Money is tight. Everyone wants to feel as if they are getting the most out of every dollar spent. While brand perception and trust are vital, many insurers have refined their customer satisfaction focus to now pursue and mea...
I've written about NUMA effects and process affinity on this blog lots of times in the past. It's a complex topic that has a lot of real-world affects on your MPI and HPC applications. If you're not using processor and...
Kristin Peterson, CEO of Inveneo, a key Cisco CSR partner, is a guest blogger on Cisco's Impact X section on the Huffington Post. In her post, Kristin talks about how Internet connectivity can impact economic and social advancemen...
This week Cisco is proud to host 17 NetRider Champions from 13 countries around the globe at Cisco headquarters in San Jose, California. These tech wizards are students from the Cisco Networking Academy program who competed agains...
The data center is at the heart of promoting IT transformation. Mobility initiatives have created a need for increased connections; power initiatives have created a need for greater efficiency; and the increased need for real-time...
By Bill Gerhardt, Director, IBSG Service Provider Online video is growing at a rapid - if not explosive - pace, with innovation and disruption spreading across all areas of the value chain. Some of the greatest innovation is curre...
"Great show!" That's what we've been hearing from retailers who visited Cisco's booth and attended our Big Ideas Sessions at NRF 2013. I led the demonstration of the Cisco Remote Expert Smart Solution for Retail in our booth. This...