Did you know this is the first time that the Books and Chapters have received an update in over 10 years? Over 10,000 Books and 150,000 related chapters have been updated with a new, more flexible format. The new...
For such a basic idea, BYOD can turn into a complex issue. Network administrators at ROC Friese Poort, a school of 13,000 students in the Netherlands, were concerned that their wireless network's capacity and performance wasn't r...
This is the final post in a series that has been focused on providing different ways to think about the job of a modern day software technology architect. The series began with the idea of defining an architecture that blends phys...
By Oded Ashkenazi,Group Leader, STARE, Service Provider Video Software and Solutions, Cisco Few would argue that data security has become one of the most pressing technology issues facing the world today. Nonetheless, despite the ...
My youngest daughter, a very energetic happy-go-easy fourth grader, was looking over my shoulder as I was working on this blog. "Dad, why talk about going back to school before the summer break even starts?" Good point, considerin...
Do you remember the childhood game Gossip? Maybe you played it. A secret message is whispered from one person to the next until it reaches thelast person who says out loud what they believed they heard. Whether by an honest misund...
It is nearly impossible to miss the business transformation taking place in every organization. As consumers, our smart devices have trained us to expect delivery of information or services at near instant speed. But w...
I'm in Vienna this week at the Pioneers Festival, which describes itself as "the epicenter of innovation." Surrounded by 2,500 technology pioneers, including 500 of some of the world's most promising early-stage startups, I defini...
Many service providers have yet to tap into the full business potential of IT-as-a-service. If they're willing to invest the time developing the relationship with their channel partners, the returns could be considerable. The dram...
Let me begin with some nostalgia. Allow me to transport you back to the 1990s... when fashion got rid of shoulder pads, a new rock sound was coming out of Seattle, South Park and The Simpsons brought crude humor to the masses, and...
This week I had the opportunity to participate in the 11th International Association for Court Administration (IACA) conference. This conference has been another valuable best practices sharing event with 83 speake...
Three-and-a-half years ago, an informal brainstorming session among a few of us started a broader discussion on how we should co-innovate with the startup ecosystem, which eventually led to the creation of a new corporate venturin...