In continuing my blog series from Marketing Velocity 2014, I am spending the next few months talking individually about the five superheroes we introduced in Chicago this year: Wonder Vision-The power to see what no one yet can ...
If cities would set aside dedicated lanes on highways or exclusively autonomous sectors in cities, autonomous vehicles could probably become reality as early as 2015 to 2019 on dedicated highway lanes and 2020-2024 in dedicated c...
With networks getting faster and the whole world going mobile, the number of connections is growing at an unprecedented rate. By next year, the amount of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on the planet, and...
Over the last couple of months we have talked about Fast IT and the need to think about your IT model in a new way to thrive in the Internet of Everything (IoE). Fast IT is the new model for IT that transforms and simplifies IT op...
In my last blog on 5 GHz spectrum, I discussed the recent FCC ruling that permitted outdoor access points to use the U-NII 1 band (5150-5250 MHz). But the story doesn't stop there. As mentioned last time, there are significa...
When last we left our hero, he (that is, me, or I) was getting a crash course in Nexus programmability and trying to understand what all of this stuff meant. I had plied Jim* with beer in order to get him to explain to me -using t...
In just two years, indoor location technology has taken off and attracted a lot of buzz across industries, from retailers to healthcare. But it's no longer a conversation about just Wi-Fi -the introduction of beacon devices, inclu...
As a writer for the IT media, conference speaker, and co-host of the Packet Pushers podcast, I cover emerging networking technologies often. The new tech that comes across my screen ranges in value from "I can't believe that got f...
Has this happened to you? The line of business comes to you one day and says they have this great new idea to train the sales teams. "Let's use YouTube videos", they say. Or the CMO comes to you and says, "digital sign...
Recently, I was able to spend a day with a leading food manufacturer whose products you most likely enjoyed at your Fourth of July barbecue. I was with this customer to see what they have implemented and help them understand...
In my final post in this series, I wanted to focus on another powerful innovation made possible by combining a big data architecture and a continuous approach for more effective protection: automated, advanced analytics. Today's a...
Brian Jeffries is a vice president of operations on Cisco's Global Business Services team. Working collectively with his colleagues across Cisco, he is responsible for increasing the speed and scale of end-to-end operational...