Retention Trumps Satisfaction For about a decade, JD Power and Associates has been asking consumers to rate their satisfaction with insurance companies on a simple scale of 1-5. This summer, a study of the auto insurance industry ...
[WARNING: This blog post contains specifics on actual product features. Stop reading now if you prefer PowerPoint to Excel.] "Enterprise class." Sounds awesome. But does it have any meaning to your business? It turns out that it d...
A story came out today showcasing the platform built to power Xerox Managed Print Services (MPS), and it's hard to describe better example of how Cisco's data center technology comes together to help unlock the full potential...
At the Gartner DC conference in Las Vegas, Cisco SVP and General Manager Data Center Group David Yen delivered a key note speech yesterday highlighting the importance of a convergence infrastructure (starting with UCS)  ...
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was in London last week at a conference. I picked up the badge shown in the photo below, and it made me laugh, and I thought it would be a good image to pass on. VCE's Vblock ...
There has been major market traction this past year in the deployment of cloud services, but the discussion still too often focuses on cloud in the singular. Our experience has shown that companies are not typically adopting a sin...
BayThreat 2012, the third annual information security conference in the South Bay of San Francisco, will be held December 7-8 at The Firehouse Brewery in downtown Sunnyvale, Calif. This technical conference is well attended by sec...
Today, everyone at Cisco is excited about the release of a new book - "The Human Face of Big Data" by Rick Smolan, a former Time, Life, and National Geographic photographer best known as the creator of the "Day in the Life" book s...
In my previous blog, we looked at how Catalyst switches can be used to assess video application readiness in the network before rolling out a video based collaboration application. In this blog, let us take a look at available too...
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is an international collaborative project to construct a low frequency radio telescope as a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a global mega-science project to build the world's larg...
Private cloud is surrounded by its own mythos-some folks believe it doesn't existand some folks believe its something that will only be enjoyed by future generations. So, Cisco IT is living proof that private cloud is someth...
Spotting the next innovation that could bring benefits to customers, or that could challenge the continued success of existing products, is a challenge that is front-of-mind for every company. But keeping a finger on the pulse of ...