We're here at the Internet of Things World Forum with over 800 delegates in a very wet Barcelona. This morning, Chris Yapp eloquently introduced the uses and potential uses for IoT in education and Jane Alexander blew us away with...
In order to provide important services and innovations that better align to business, data centers must deploy advancecd IT architectures. Who says? IDC. In fact, this month they reported that adoption of integrated systems has mo...
This marks the 32nd year I've worked in healthcare. It doesn't seem like very long ago that I worked as a registered nurse, caring for critically ill patients. Although I'm no longer working at a patient's bedside, today's healthc...
A Short Trip Down Memory Lane... On the quest of becoming a truly social-minded culture, about a year and a half ago, we rolled up our sleeves and created a multi-level, multi-track social media training program that used game pri...
Tomorrow kicks off the first day of the Internet of Things World Forum, hosted by Cisco. Today I was fortunate to have a few minutes with Guido Jouret. Guido is the head of Cisco's IoT Group and answered a few question...
Employees of every organization use a variety of computing devices such as desktops, servers, laptops, security appliances, and mobile devices to increase productivity in this ever-changing world of Information Technology. The con...
Also launches, Industry's first reference architecture for Hadoop with advanced access control and encryption with IDH,first flash-enhanced reference architecture for Hadoop demonstrated using YCSB with MapR,industry's first va...
On November 5, retail financial services business leaders from around the world will gather at BAI Retail Delivery 2013, the financial services industry's most comprehensive and relevant event of the year. Cisco in collaboration w...
Cisco is a Zettabyte sponsor at this week's Strata Conference + Hadoop World in New York, NY, October 28-30. Everyone's talking about big data, but who's actually doing it right-and how? Find out at Strata + Hadoop World, where bi...
I was at the recent Gartner Symposium in Orlando and the topic of industrialization of IT services came up in some sessions presented by Gartner analyst, William Maurer. This is a timely and interesting topic given that the&n...
A portion of this blog was originally published on WASHfunders.org Data isn't sexy. It doesn't have the emotional appeal of water flowing from a hand pump for the first time into a child's waiting hands. Nor does it have the...
By the end of this year, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on earth. As mobile device exponentially grows around the globe, the Internet of Everything (IoE) is driving even more relevant conne...