The digital transformation of business is fueled by several megatrends -Mobility, IoT, Analytics and Cloud. First, mobile traffic is expected to exceed wired traffic by 2017. Second, IoT devices will triple by 2020. Third, 75% of...
February is always a month to celebrate love, so Cisco asked employees to tell us why they love working here using the hashtags#LoveWhereYouWork and#WeAreCisco. It looks like there's no shortage of reasons. We had so many great e...
With global mobile data traffic experiencing an almost 4,000-fold growth in the past 10 years, the demand for wireless network engineers is at an all-time high and rising. Job opportunities are growing -particularly for senior lev...
Recently there has been a lot of buzz in the news around people getting fed up with enterprise messaging applications. This began with a well written and widely read article in Medium titled, "Slack I'm Breaking Up with You." A tw...
Shadow IT is not a new topic and the threat it brings can wreak havoc on your business as well as your leaders. For years, we have known that employees and lines of business are bypassing IT departments and utilizing cloud service...
The key to retail success is understanding the shopping journey, and video can play an important part in that process. Sandra Acham talked to me this week as she wrote a blog about how video supports a comprehensive approach to un...
School districts all around the country have been using E-rate funding to spark digital transformation in their classrooms. One such district is the Wayne Highlands School District. Wayne Highlands SD covers 435 square miles in no...
Cisco Talos is currently observing a widespread campaign leveraging the Samas/Samsam/MSIL.B/C ransomware variant. Unlike most ransomware, SamSam is not launched via user focused attack vectors, such as phishing campaigns and explo...
The standard gauge used for railroads (that is the distance between the rails) in the U.S. is four feet, eight and a half inches, which is an odd number however you look at it. The history behind it is even stranger and is a cauti...
Last week I wrote about how digital fans are expecting new experiences at NCAA games as part of March Madness. (Wow -how about some of those games this weekend -and my Fighting Irish survive and advance to the Sweet 16! But I digr...
A few years ago I sat down with technology leaders at a major oil and gas company to talk about a solution they wanted Cisco to develop, and they had some unique and interesting requirements: They wanted us to workwiththem to co...
As long asI've been in this business, I'm still amazed by today's technology and all of its new and exciting possibilities. There are smartphone apps that enable schools to send reports on your kids' daily progress. There are apps...