John McDonough talks Intercloud Fabric on TechWiseTVTechWiseTV Episode 174 featuringCisco Intercloud Fabric, part of the Enterprise Cloud Suitewith guest John McDonough, @johnamcdonough YouTube Preview https://youtu.be/XjPGaZ...
Last week I introduced this topic, the pervasive problem of "comatose" servers in data centers, based upon an interesting recent eWeek article entitled "30 Percent of Servers Worldwide Sit Idle", which in turn was based upon the r...
I've noticed that many business cliches have been invading my language. I've been trying to be proactive in curbing the habit. Needless to say, it's not working. So instead of trying to cut back, at the end of the day I'...
For years, industrial control systems have been characterized by proprietary devices, protocols, communications, and applications. However, at the Hannover Fair last spring, virtually every exhibitor showed products that support I...
IT organizations are struggling with how to maintain what they have while also reacting to the rapidly changing needs of the business. Some think this means "transforming" IT into a new, agile organization -instead, we can use "bi...
We caught up with Andrew Miller, Sr. Sales Engineer from Bit Stew Systems at Cisco Live this year. Bit Stew is a Cisco partner that focuses on the analytics space with a platform that they call 'Software Defined Operations for the...
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we'll talk about Elastica, the Integration between Cisco ISE and Cloud Access Security Brokers, which gives administrators deeper visibility, secu...
Not long ago I was asked to attend a quarterly Board meeting of one of my healthcare clients and to present the recommendations of a Strategic Security Roadmap (SSR) exercise that my team and I had conducted for the organization. ...
In August of 2010 my journey with Cisco began as I started my career on the Engineering Talent Acquisition Team. Five years later, I can tell you that it is still just as fantastic as that first day because Cisco invests in ...
The oil and gas industry has been digitized since the 1960s -perhaps longer than any other sector. From digital computers to digital oilfields, the industry has evolved from a monitor and react model, to one of real-time and pred...
Fast IT has the power to completely transform the role and the value of IT to the business. It is a critical imperative for those CIOs who want to transform themselves from the mere owners of technology stacks to thedriv...
These are three conversations that I had recently with a partner, a customer, and a Cisco executive (not necessarily in this order): "Cloud refers to only private and hybrid cloud, right?" "I thought infrastructure-as-a-service...