As we approach Girls in ICT day on April 24thmany people are talking about women in tech and gender bias. All this talk made me think of EWIP, a conference I attended a little over a month ago. Women in Tech sessionOne of the ses...
The Open MPI project released version v1.8 last week. This is a major release that heralds the beginning of a new production-ready series, full MPI-3.0 support, and a new OpenSHMEM implementation. Open MPI is developed in a ...
We know that communicating quickly and openly about security vulnerabilities can result in a little extra public attention for Cisco. As a trustworthy vendor, this is something we're happy to accept. It's recently been said that t...
I remember growing up in the UK years ago during the UK's 'North Sea Oil Boom'. It was a time of great excitement and opportunity for the nation. A whole industry was developed to deal with offshore exploration to 'bring the...
Current wired andwireless networks will be inadequateas traffic is forecast to triple over next five years as per Cisco VNI. Business Internet video traffic is expected to grow at 39%, mobile data traffic at 59% & Internet of ...
It's that time of year again in the US -Tax Time! That time of year where we review the previous year's bounty, calculate what's due, and re-evaluate our strategies to see if we can keep more of what we worked for. Thi...
I was on vacation last week, and had a nice April Fool's blog post queued up to be posted at 8am US Eastern time on 1 April 2014. It should have appeared whilst I was relaxing on a beach... but due to a bug in our WordPress instal...
We're generating digital information at an exponential rate. It's coming from more devices that are more connected than everandgetting smarter all the time. In 2013, global mobile data traffic stood at 1.5 exabytes per month ...
At Cisco Live! Melbourne, I was invited to speak at the Executive Symposium to nearly 100 of Cisco's top customers in the Australia and New Zealand region. In my talk,Gaining Insightfromthe Big Data Avalanche, I covered big ...
When people think of the Dutch capital of Amsterdam, they often think of bicycles, canals and progressive social values. Some may even know about its leadership in international trade, catalyzed centuries ago by the Dutch East Ind...
Over the past weeks, Cisco Cloud Services introduce a global Intercloud . Today I'd like to explain how Cisco Intercloud provides a platform for Cisco, ISVs, and partners application enablement and innovati...
Having worked in Sales for more than 18 years, I have learned that all sales professionals have a common need for recognition and motivation. Only about 5-20 % of sales people are, "intrinsically motivated" meaning int...