In early 2000 I co-authored a book with Peter Keen called "From .com to .Profit." We got lucky as delays in the publishing process meant that the book published just days before the dot com crash. As a result of the timing, it rec...
Co-authored with Dani Schrakamp All aboard the digital express Communities and countries of all sizes are in motion toward a digital future...and if not, they risk being left behind. This then begs the question, what does 'digitiz...
Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Carriers are continually challenged to deliver on the customer experience. One of the benefits of Cisco's cBR-8 Evolved CCAP is the built-in telemetry, programmability, ...
Ask anyone who's witnessed a match; rugby is one of the toughest sports in the world. But, as the National Rugby League (NRL) of Australia recently found out: running arugby league without a robust wireless network infrastructure ...
In the last five years I have moved from Siberia to San Francisco, to Berkeley, to San Jose, to Phoenix, and now to Minneapolis. Unlike most people, moving so many times almost feels like a privilege to me. My husband and I have b...
Guest blog by Dan Crawford, Marketing Manager, Cisco In the western Scandinavian fjords of Norway, Enivest an internet service provider has deployed a new optical transport network using a Cisco optical networ...
In the past few months we have seen major outages from United Airlines, the NYSE, and the Wall Street Journal. With almost 5,000 flights grounded, and NYSE halting trading the cost of failure is high. When bad things happen IT per...
We all know that data is exploding and in more places than ever before. Without the right strategy in place, it can be a real monster. When tamed, data holds the key to great insights about an organization's business that could h...
In the previous blog entry, I shared the slides of one of the mini-talks that I gave at EuroMPI 2015 in Bordeaux, France (and don't forget to start planning for EuroMPI 2016 in Edinburgh, Scottland). The second mini-talk I ga...
The ancient Roman poet Virgil might feel at home in the Digital Age (once the initial future shock wears off!). He famously said, "Fortune favors the bold." These words have never been more prescient. In a recent article, we liken...
Many manufacturers operate at high volumes, and unplanned production downtime is costly. One leading auto manufacturer estimates unplanned downtime in a factory can cost them as much as$20,000 per minute. Often these line down sit...
I am looking forward to the Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference, Oct 14-16 2015, Houston, Texas. From Cisco Women in Cybersecurity to extraordinary software developers and inspiring executive I invite you to join us at Cisc...