The world is awash in data, and 90 percent of it was created in the last two years.1In fact, every day we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data2and that number is growing exponentially. The explosive growth of the Internet of Thing...
We've known for years that employees and lines of business are bypassing IT departments to get the cloud services they want. The good news is we can finally quantify how much shadow IT exists in an organization and identify any ri...
Have you seen the vBrownBag Tech Talks at previous conferences or maybe checked them out on YouTube? If not, I highly recommend it. If you're not familiar with vBrownBag it is actually several things! For one, it's a weekly podcas...
Innovation has become an imperative for society at large. Whether it be entrepreneurs starting new ventures, large established corporations trying to defend their market position, or countries facing increased global competition, ...
If you've never heard about Cisco's dCloud team, you're about to. After this, you might think they're Cisco's best-kept secret, and the coolest team around. dCloud's Technical Lead Brian Villanueva and Program Manager Steve Dicks...
In my previous blog entry, I answered a user question about how MPI defines its global constants, specifically in the context of interactions with other languages. I went beyond that answer, and also explained why MPI does no...
Much has been published in the industry about how automation will result in job loss e.g. the book, The Second Machine Age, as an example. Further, the question is obvious as to whether or not the skills you have today will be rel...
I recently became a Ninja. That's right. A Cisco Security Ninja. You can be a Ninja too! Satyapriya Sharma has a little fun with her new Security Ninja achievement.The Cisco Security Ninja Program (http://wwwin-csdl.cisco.com/nin...
The landscape of IT has changed. The single-source provider era is quickly coming to an end as more companies embrace the world of multi-sourcing. In a 2014 report by IAOP & Information Services Group (ISG) Annual State of the...
Cisco's vision for the Intercloud is to create and manage workloads across multiple clouds and to provide a single point of consumption. Nowhere is that single point of consumption stronger than at the data layer, where the divers...
While we most often think of the Internet of Everything (IoE) as transforming public safety forces out in the field, change can actually begin before an officer is even leaves the station. Classroom training for officers is crucia...
Co-authored with Dani Schrakamp Let there be light...and parking spots! There's nothing like the quiet (or in my case, not-so-quiet) desperation of circling a few city blocks, over and over again, looking for a spot to park. You c...