About two years ago, I went into a customer workshop on private cloud. As we were introducing ourselves around the table, the CIO turned to me with a pained expression and said, "Bob I have a different problem. My CFO and CEO just...
Each week, we'll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here's what you might have missed this week: We cont...
Businesses of all sizes are looking for Cloud solutions to solve some of their biggest business and technology challenges-reducing costs, creating new levels of efficiency, transform to create agile environment and facilitate...
On January 16, 2014, Proofpoint discussed a spam attack conducted via "smart devices which have been compromised." Among the devices cited by Proofpoint as participating in the "Thingbot" were routers, set-top boxes, game consoles...
As Wi-Fi continues to be the primary mode of access, enterprise Unified Communication(UC) applications usage is increasing with smartphones, tablets and laptops. Customers are asking, is there anything I can do to prioritize Jabbe...
Today is the final day of a very busy and successful Cisco Live Milan 2014. Read my initial observations from the event earlier this week. As the event draws to a close, lets look at some of the location analytics available via C...
In my last blog post, I described a new collaboration between the MPI community and the OpenFabrics verbs community. The collaboration started with the OpenFrameworks group asking the MPI community to list its requirements for a l...
A number of key applications consumed by businesses through premise-based deployments are now available from the cloud. Irrespective of where you are in the evolution to the cloud, here are five services that are worth your attent...
Considering all the hype aroundthecloud, it's easy to forget that we live in a world ofmanyclouds. Organizations can't simply tap into a single all-powerful entity located everywhere and nowhere, all at once. In reality, they must...
For a while now, I've been promoting that partners need to adopt a Hybrid IT business model to be successful and stay competitive in a world with more market transitions, more technologies, and more customer choices than ever befo...
Earlier this week, we announced the Cisco Domain Ten framework 2.0, enhanced by great input from customers, partners, and Cisco's well-earned experience of strategizing and executing IT transformation. Theenhanced Cisco Doma...
What do IT and K12 Common Core Standards have in common? Forty-five states, the District of Columbia, four territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity have adopted the Common Core State Standards. 100% of each of...