When I ask IT executives how happy they are with their external support providers (outsourcers, vendors, etc.) invariably they express deep frustration. They look to these vendors to be real partners -to collaborate effectively an...
Windows Server 2012 R2 is central to Microsoft's Cloud OS vision; the operating system platform delivers enhancements and new features in virtualization, management, storage, networking, and more. Our Cisco server infrastruc...
In 2011, I wrote a blog called "The Results: How Reverse Mentoring Can Enhance Diversity and Inclusion". The blog described the benefits, the lessons learned and the most popular areas to mentor from a Reverse Mentoring Program I ...
We had some exciting sessions featuring Cisco Prime Service Catalog at Cisco Live Milan a few weeks ago. In case you missed it, we featured two great customer case studies. One of them was Steria, a multinational service provider ...
Bowdoin College is a liberal arts college based in the town of Brunswick, Maine. It houses 1839 students in about 100 buildings and offers 33 different majors and 4 minors. The Bowdoin IT Team are pioneering in nature as would be ...
I've always been curious about networks. I remember opening up an old Linksys Router and discovering the physical circuit, the processor and integrated memory. But my official networking life didn't start until my coworker taught ...
The insurance industry is facing a massive evolutionary shift driven by competition and changes in consumer preferences. The competitive battle is easy to see, as insurers delve out billions in advertising and marketing expenditur...
A few years ago at Mobile World Congress (well more than a few, perhaps...), I was speaking with the CTO of a top tier Mobile Operator about a newly emerging technology called IMS. It seemed that every vendor was promising h...
Welcome to #CiscoChampion Radio, a podcast series by and for Cisco Champions as technologists, hosted by Cisco's Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week we're talking about Cisco's InterCloud announcement and where Cloud is going ...
On February 18th, 2014 Cisco announced support for the Intel? Xeon? Processor E7 v2 product family on the Cisco Unified Computing System? (Cisco UCS?). Cisco has designed three new servers based on these new Intel processors: the ...
This week we're announcing new systems at the upper end of the UCS server product line: some heavy-duty iron for heavy-duty times. These are important new tools for our UCS customers: the digital age is...
Today is a big day and a turning point in the server world with Cisco's partner Intel launching a new line of Intel? Xeon? processor E7 v2 product family cpus. These new processors offer numerous benefits over th...