The Cloudera Sessions Roadshow helps companies to navigate the Big Data journey. As Hadoop takes the data management market by storm, organizations are evolving the role it plays in the modern data center. This disru...
I recently stumbled upon a mobile app that will utilize the compute power of your mobile phone, while you are sleeping to decrypt protein sequences for cancer research. Even though utilizing an idle computer CPU for research isn'...
In the past, they were called 'Patients', today their mindset and their behavior patterns have changed; they are called 'Consumers' of healthcare. They just don't look at healthcare to consume the services when they are sick, but ...
How many apps do you have on your mobile phone or tablet? Too many? Do you use all of them? If you do, you're in the minority. 22% of people use an app only once after they have downloaded it, according to a study by Localytics. ...
Even though I grew up surrounded by engineers and technology in Silicon Valley, I didn't decide to seriously study science until my freshman year in college, when I switched my major from economics to theoretical mathematics at th...
Many people take the term "Internet of Things" too literally, and assume that IoT is about the things, themselves. But they're missing the whole point! It's not the "things" that makes IoT special. After all, connected devices are...
Despite the many benefits of IoT, the billions of connected sensors, devices, and other smart objects it comprises will also dramatically increase the diversity of threats we will face. As a result, ensuring that we can reap the o...
The Cisco IPS Signature Development team has released 4 signature updates in the past week. Each of the updates contains either modifications to existing signatures or additional signatures for detection of attacks related to the ...
Now that US tax day is over, we in the wireless field can get back to focusing on P1: optimizing and maintaining network performance. Keeping your network in good shape is like gardening: if you don't pull out the weeds, it'll nev...
Last week I published a brief blog about the OpenSSL heartbeat extension vulnerability, also known as the Heartbleed bug. One commenter asked, "What about the Cisco.com website? Is it safe to change our passwords on the site?" We ...
A recent Bloor Research Market Update on Advanced Threat Protection reminds us of something that many security vendors have long been loath to acknowledge: traditional, point-in-time technologies, like anti-virus or sandboxes, are...
The 2014 IEEE PES Transmission & Distribution Conference & Exposition is in the Windy City, bringing a half-century of industry innovation to the biggest and most exciting conference yet! Check out Cisco's presence at t...