Are you in the Northern California Bay Area and want to hear about Open MPI and/or Cisco's usNIC technology next week? If so, you're in luck! I'll be speaking at Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL) next Thursday, November 7, 2013, at 2:30...
Earlier in this month the OpenStack community came out with the biannual OpenStack release -Havana. According to the OpenStack Foundation, not only did Havana add close to 400 new features across Compute (Nova), Storage (Swift), N...
This week I'm at the inaugural Internet of Things World Forum, hosted by Cisco. To give you a sense of what was discussed in just one day, I thought I'd capture some of the more interesting tweets and stats. ...
My last blog talked about the challenges of becoming an omnichannel retailer, and how stores are still learning how to make changes that cut across their entire business. We discussed how, appearances to the contrary, omnichannel ...
By now you've probably heard quite a bit about the newest generation of Wi-Fi, 802.11ac. I'll save you the gory details, just know it's about 3x faster than 802.11n and will help to improve the capacity of your network. Jame...
Welcome back to the latest episode of Engineers Unplugged, featuring the inimitable dynamic duo of storage,Vaughn Stewart(@vStewed) andChad Sakac(@sakacc). They discuss three key trends in storage today: flash, distributed DAS, an...
Stop-think-connect is not only for kids. Everyone, including nerds like me and network and security professionals, should pay more attention before connecting any device to the Internet. Routers (wireless and wired), industrial co...
If you're in an SMB company you might think of telepresence as a tool built for enterprise, something that would be nice to have for your small business but just out of reach. You'd be wrong. Video conferencing solutions like Tele...
"Community policing is central to the success of the police mission." ...
If you missed SCTE Cable-Tec Expo at Atlanta last week., check out the following three videos on what Cisco took away from the show. Cisco's Joe Cozzolino, SVP &GM, Cisco SP Video Infrastructure, shares his thoughts on ...
I have the privilege of attending the Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Barcelona. The event brought in global executives across multiple industries, all with the common goal of using the netwo...
Back on September 10th,Cisco announced the intent to acquire WHIPTAIL and today I'm excited to report to our Data Center blog readers that the acquisition has been completed! Paul Perez has laid out Cisco's vision for this ...