The numbers coming out month after month show that we seem to be tracking a slow but steady recovery. As I've said before, I'm cautiously optimistic about the manufacturing sector -especially in the USA. https://www.youtube.com/wa...
The New Year 2013 has well and truly arrived -Happy New Year to all -and it's time for me to continue on the Cisco journey of data center and cloud transformation. Last month I introduced the Cisco Domain TenSM framewor...
While employee work flexibility and increased job satisfaction are strong reasons to consider teleworking solutions, the latest report from the Telework Research Network shows that there are even more compelling reasons to support...
If you've followed my posts over 2012 for Cisco Data Center, you may have noticed that I took a slight departure back in September from data center topics to tell you about a "Giving Back" initiative I was part of in 2012 -t...
The Internet of Everything is the idea that we can start connecting everything around us. Connections between people, things, and machines to produce intelligent data will lead the way we experience life. Therefore, cars and vehic...
I have been coaching youth sports for the past seven plus years now and one of my common mantras when speaking to the girls and boys each season is that "we will win as a team and lose as a team." In other words, I will neve...
More than two months have passed since Superstorm Sandy devastated communities and lives in the eastern United States and the Caribbean. But Jim Killoran, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Westchester, still shows up a...
Is the product safe to use? I have been asked this question on occasion in a non-technical sense and maybe you have too. In a technical context, I could frame the question as "Are the online services and underlying technologies su...
Video collaboration and telepresence technologies will play an increasingly important role in transforming the delivery of education. "Telepresence expands the learning environment by offering students a virtual window on the re...
As 2012 came to a close, I found myself looking back not only on the events of world at large but also on just how much progress we have made here at Cisco with the Cisco VXI Smart Solution. I took a moment to reflect on the incre...
As we got past the Mayan Apocalyse day and as 2012 comes to an end, a question to reflect upon is if this has been the year of the Converged Infrastructure Solutions. Incidentally, use of these solutions by data center...
Since " 'tis the season" for giving in many parts of the world, and as end of the calendar year approaches, I've decided to finish my working year reflecting upon the biggest "Giving Back" initiative I was personally part of in Se...