In a previous article I talked about my thermostat and the Internet of Everything [read here] I questioned the true value my smart meter was providing to my home and my wallet. I said what's missing is a thermostat that helps me u...
When I was in grade school, my best friend had a favorite saying whenever he disagreed with somebody's observation that two things were really similar. "It's the same, only different," he would quip. Though this phrase was mostly ...
Guess what? Convergence is happening again, and it's happening at a faster pace with more profound implications than I have never seen before. Those of us who've been in the industry a long time have seen convergence happen ove...
This two-part blog series discusses the future of wearables and mobility in an#InternetOfEverything world. Since the dawn of time, humans have been motivated by an innate desire to be connected to each other and to information...
Last week at Redhat Summit in San Francisco, Cisco Data center was well represented in speaking sessions, and solutions expo. I saw lots of traffic at our demo booth featuring Cisco ACI with OpenStack. Customers and Partners alike...
It's springtime...typically the time of year when you need to purge your house of all the clutter that's accumulated during the winter.At the same time, spring always reminds me to do some extra sprucing up around the Cisco digita...
Oh so much! First of all, we don't consider Earth Day as just one day in the year when we implement a few feel-good actions that temporarily improve our environment. We consider Earth Day a great opportunity to reach out to our 68...
While out talking to customers, I've continually heard about three fundamental security challenges they are wrestling to manage: changing business models, a dynamic threat landscape, and fragmentation of security solutions. ...
I recently sat down with Arvind Hickman ofHR Magazine UKto discuss the skills gap in the technology sector. We talked about the challenges of filling the critical technology slots that business demands, particularly in developed c...
At the recent IoT World Forum Steering Committee meeting one of the topics that came up again and again was innovation -the need for innovation in business models, the need for innovation in our lives as the Internet of Everything...
If you're into sustainability, Earth Day can be a bit like New Year's Day. A time to reflect. A time of hope. Maybe a bit of frustration with things not yet completed. But impatience can grease the wheels of change... A time of ho...
For those of you who follow the Cisco Data Center blog in general and my blogs in particular, you're probably thinking it is time I updated you on this topic. You're right! But it is almost time for Cisco Live and I will be presen...