As technology evolves, people who conduct business continue trying to keep up, implementing it in all facets of their industry to improve and increase efficiency. Whether these technologies have been around for some time and devel...
Since Henry Ford, the alchemy of turning raw materials into mass-produced products has been complicated and challenging. At best, it has been a delicate and precarious balancing act; at worst, something akin to herding cats. The t...
Last week, I got a great response to a blog on 'Making Smarter ManufacturingandIoT a Reality Today', where I illustrated some use-case business scenarios and strategies to leverage the IoT industry trends now. One way savvy manuf...
Congratulations to the winners of the DoGooder Video Awards, who were announced today at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, D.C.! The DoGooder Awards recognize the creative and effective use of video...
A little over a month ago, I had the pleasure of attending Cisco Live in Milan, Italy. It was a busy week doing FlexPod demos and meeting with our customers and technology partners. This provided me the opportunity to grab some vi...
Recently, I researched wireless home internet packages at a local mall and being the IT guy that I am I asked some very technical questions. "Is this running over WiMax?", "What frequency band is it operating i...
Despite its overwhelming business benefits, the Internet of Things (IoT) also significantly increases security risks. That's why Cisco is pleased to announce the IoT Security Grand Challenge, an industry-wide initiative to b...
Despite its overwhelming business benefits, the Internet of Things (IoT) also significantly increases security risks, via a dramatic increase in attack surface and diversity of potential threats. And since IoT is a...
When it comes to the mobile internet at Cisco, there has been a great deal of coverage lately around the need for and advances in small cells to offer spectrum in places hard to get to from a cell tower, on ways to optimize the ma...
This week marks the 25thanniversary of the World Wide Web, an important milestone as we look at how far we've come and how the Internet of Everything (IoE) is shaping our future. Developed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at C...
This isan amazing episode of Engineers Unplugged, where two technologists from the community, Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000) and Colin Lynch (@ucsguru) discuss how ACI disrupts traditional networking thinking while leveraging current ...
Imagine that you head the leading telecommunications provider in Italy and you are watching traditional service and revenue streams struggle under intense competitive pressure. Customer retention is a major issue because the types...