As I blog today from the show floor at Automation Fair in the George Brown Convention Center in Houston, the second day of one of the largest industrial automation events is underway. We have had a lot of traffic and interest in t...
The mobile market continues to evolve at a blindingly fast pace. It seems that new faster, sleeker, and more powerful mobile devices are launched every day, with new device categories created almost overnight. The number of availa...
Each year, thousands of U.S. veterans return from the battlefield with exceptional leadership, technical and other skills they have acquired overseas. Even so, many experience difficulty finding a job, and return feeling overwhelm...
It goes without saying (but I'll say it anyway): reliability is important, as well as ensuring that you have a backup plan to continue that reliability. Just yesterday as I was embarking on my 50-mile commute into the office, I di...
Well, the first day of Automation Fair 2013, Rockwell Automation's (RA) largest user conference, is almost a wrap. The George Brown Convention Center in Houston was the setting for today's very busy activities- at the exhibi...
Rarely a week goes by that we don't hear of a database compromise that results in confidential data-many times consisting of personally identifiable information (PII)-falling into the hands of those who should not have access to t...
Discovering a breach where ePHI has been stolen certainly falls into the 'not a good day at work' category. It can be catastrophic for some, especially if the compromise occurred months ago and wasn't detected. Or if a...
In one of my earlier blogs, -"How to get more SAN mileage...." -I had highlighted how one can deploy End-to-End FCoE using a converged Director-class platform, like Nexus 7000, connected directly from the converged access switch, ...
This week we're back on Engineers Unplugged with special guests J Metz (@drjmetz) and Francois Zimmerman (@francoiszim), who discuss Flash Acceleration and the recent CVD release (Cisco Solution for Hitachi Unified Compute Solutio...
Are you going to be in Denver at SC'13 next week? Good! You need to stop by the Cisco booth (#2535) and say hi to your friendly neighborhood Open MPI developers: Dave Goodell, Reese Faucette, and Jeff Squyres. You also need to com...
Power efficiency remains a top decision point for many customers looking to modernize their data center. Customers searching for an accurate way to compare server power among vendors are often directed to use power calculators wit...
This year I was honored to be able to present and participate at Cisco Live Cancun, which took place last week. Many attendees from North, Central and South America and the Caribbean came to discover innovative ways that networkin...