These are especially difficult times for the retail industry. For starters, several of retail's marquee names announced store closings or layoffs following a disappointing holiday sales season. Retailers simply haven't benefitedfr...
Retail's Big Show offers ideas and insights into the ever-changing industry of retail. This year's NRF 2016 drew a large and influential group of the most innovative retail leaders. Throughout the show, these leaders held extensiv...
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi Many millennials like myself are looking for ways we can change the world. It's one of the things that brought me to Cisco. Cisco changes the way we work, live, play, ...
As I look back on 2015 and the great effort of the Mantl.io and CiscoShipped.io teams, I am reminded of the efforts I had in the initial cloud computing efforts 8 years ago. The buzz and market interest in cloud computing then was...
Are you preparing your organization for the end of support on Microsoft SQL Server 2005? Continuing to run legacy SQL Server can present significant challenges for your organization. Information volume continues to grow worldwide ...
Software testing. For a long time, software testing was one of those dark alleys of the software development process. Often ignored, considered as an afterthought, and staffed by "someone else" who did an important job but was out...
Arista's filing of bogus antitrust claims today is not accidental or a coincidence. The claims, most of which were included in earlier Arista filings, are a smokescreen to divert attention from the important ruling expected from t...
98.25% of the malicious TLS traffic we observed was HTTPS over port 443. But, we did see an interesting diversity of malware's usage of TLS in the tail of the distribution. Figure 2 shows the percentage of ports where malware used...
One of the common topics of debate in data management circles has been -do Big Data solutions replace traditional database solutions? The industry trends show that it will not, but instead the two will coexist and complement&...
I've been using online banking for a while now. Just the other day, I had a quick question and saw "Chat Live with a representative" so I decided try it out. As I got comfortable asking a few questions, I started to want to do mor...
AGCO is a company that's made its name by providing high-tech solutions to farmers around the world. After years of acquisitions and growth, the company needed to update its IT infrastructure. AGCO looked to Cisco to facilitate t...
Manufacturers are challenged with how to start digitizing their factories. Many have told me it is not inertia or budget holding them back, but being overwhelmed or unsure of where to start. Yet the value that awaits them is grea...