In my role as leader of the Analytics Practice for Cisco?Consulting Services, I often meet with clients who remind me of how the nature of consulting is changing. Traditionally, a consultant's value and relevance to the customer h...
Employee are now unchained from their desks; mobility frees the ability to work anyplace, anytime, and from any device. This is revolutionizing the type of productivity and efficiency businesses see from their workforce- large, me...
It can be lonely for a woman in the technology field. At the college level, men earn 82 percent of engineering and computer science degrees. And while women make up 47 percent of the overall workforce, they constitute only 27 perc...
Once again, the holiday season is upon us. It's a time to reconnect with friends and family, share memories and relax. Unfortunately, today's busy world prevents many of us from physically being together during this special time o...
If you're a West Coaster who couldn't quite make it out of bed at 5am last Thursday, or you just didn't catch the Cisco Financial Analyst Conference in New York, then you might have missed Cisco CEO John Chambers sharing som...
One thing the IoT World Forum reinforced was the need for collaboration across the industry. No one company will represent the Internet of Things. I also saw a lot of passion. Everyone there was excited and ...
We are all witnessing the continued proliferation of mobile devices on our networks. This device explosion has led to an increase in wireless service discovery and announcements protocols likeBonjour, DLNA(Digital Living Network A...
(I pulled this list together with the help of my colleague Martin Chorich. Or maybe it was the other way around. ) Every year, publications ranging from supermarket tabloids to serious academic journals issue forecasts for the com...
When a patent is essential to implementing a standard, standards developing organizations (SDOs) typically require that the Standard-Essential Patent (SEP) holder license implementers on reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) te...
By Paul Mankiewich, CTO of SP Mobility Paul Mankiewich, CTO of Service Provider Mobility, charts the history of SON to it's current state of the art, and concludes that there is no point in deploying a small cell network without ...
In the last chapter of our five part Big Data in Security series, expert Data Scientists Brennan Evans and Mahdi Namazifar join me to discuss their work on a cloud anti-phishing solution. Phishing is a well-known histori...
Each week, we'll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here's what you might have missed this week: Wow, wi...