Throughout my recent meetings with Service Provider customers at Cisco Live Milan and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, there were two recurring themes throughout my meetings (and there were a lot of them as my peers and I hoste...
As organizations mature, often they become silo'd into groups with similar charters but without a process to align their efforts. As a member of a team that is responsible for the overall strategy for of the company's digital expe...
In an age where we routinely view content on our STBs, laptops and handheld devices, service providers are revisiting a fundamental issue -how to define their subscriber base. For decades, subscribers have been associated with the...
Today at Cisco we announced the fifth anniversary of the Unified Computing System (UCS), along with innovations in our Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) portfolio. It's pretty exciting considering that when we entered the s...
The sixth season of the National CyberPatriot Competition kicked off back in November, andthe National Finals are coming up: March 26th-29th. Conceived by the Air Force Association, CyberPatriot is a premier Internet defense compe...
The market is moving fast and the pace of change is dramatic. The days of partners launching new services into the market every 6-12 months are gone. Customers are expecting new applications almost daily that will allow them to de...
The Nexus 9516 is the latest addition to the Nexus 9000 family of switches and it is already making headlines everywhere. The crowning moment came two weeks ago, when the Nexus 9516 was selected as Best of Interop 2014 finalists, ...
Held in conjunction with EuroMPI/ASIA 2014 (see the associated call for papers), September 9-12, 2014. In-cooperation status with ACM and SIGHPC. This year, EuroMPI/ASIA 2014 will hold two workshops. Accepted workshop ...
Source: CDC Fluview 2013-2014 Influenza Season Week 11 ending March 15, 2014I was thinking the seasonal flu for the year was almost over, and then last week, I get flu. While looking at the CDS fluview, it continues to report a do...
A couple of months ago I designed a Cisco Unified Wireless Network for an enterprise company. One of the big challenges was the ability to serve wireless guest services in the branch offices, which are connected to the headquarter...
A consequence of the Moore Nielsen prediction is the phenomenon known as Data Gravity: big data is hard to move around, much easier for the smaller applications to come to it. Consider this: it took mankind over 2000 years to prod...
Web surfers in February 2014 experienced a median malware encounter rate of 1:341 requests, compared to a January 2014 median encounter rate of 1:375. This represents a 10% increase in risk of encountering web-delivered malware du...