Earlier this week, we announced the Cisco Domain Ten framework 2.0, enhanced by great input from customers, partners, and Cisco's well-earned experience of strategizing and executing IT transformation. Theenhanced Cisco Doma...
For a while now, I've been promoting that partners need to adopt a Hybrid IT business model to be successful and stay competitive in a world with more market transitions, more technologies, and more customer choices than ever befo...
Considering all the hype aroundthecloud, it's easy to forget that we live in a world ofmanyclouds. Organizations can't simply tap into a single all-powerful entity located everywhere and nowhere, all at once. In reality, they must...
A number of key applications consumed by businesses through premise-based deployments are now available from the cloud. Irrespective of where you are in the evolution to the cloud, here are five services that are worth your attent...
You may have caught this week's announcement from Citrix on the availability of XenDesktop 7.5(see announcement here). With this release, desktop virtualization implementers can tap into new elasticity and efficiencies of pr...
In my last blog post, I described a new collaboration between the MPI community and the OpenFabrics verbs community. The collaboration started with the OpenFrameworks group asking the MPI community to list its requirements for a l...
What do IT and K12 Common Core Standards have in common? Forty-five states, the District of Columbia, four territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity have adopted the Common Core State Standards. 100% of each of...
Today is the final day of a very busy and successful Cisco Live Milan 2014. Read my initial observations from the event earlier this week. As the event draws to a close, lets look at some of the location analytics available via C...
Collaboration in the era of the Internet of Everything (IoE) isnotjust about people connecting with people. Yet when you ask most people how they picture "collaboration," they probably think of person-to-person collaboration first...
Why do so many organizations maintain essentially open, "flat" networks, leavingthousandsof users and devices with network-layer reach to their "crown jewels"? Especially in light of what we know with data breaches, theft, and los...
Cisco's vision for 'The World of Many Clouds'? drove us to a leading position in the Cloud Market: Cloud infrastructure equipment sales: Ranked#1 in the industry three quarters in a row by Synergy Research for Q3 2013 According...
This is a three part blog that will explore some of the issues that are still holding back the Internet of Things (IoT), what Cisco is doing to help to solve these issues (via Cisco IOx), and what are some of the real life benefit...