The Social Innovation Summit takes place this week on December 4 and 5 in Mountain View, California. This annual gathering brings together corporate, investment, government, and nonprofit leaders to explore the strategies and busi...
As an early convert to the virtues of Cloud computing, it is fascinating to see the adoption of the ideas. Most organizations if not all, are figuring out how to harness cloud technologies to their advantage. It is in...
It's that time of year again - time to start preparing for Euro MPI 2013! Next year, we'll be heading to Madrid, Spain September 15-18. Here's a snipit from the call for papers: Topics of interest include, but are not lim...
Over the last few months we've made some nice additions and improvements to Cisco.com. We'll be writing in more detail about these individually, but I'd thought I'd give a short recap. 1. Faster Downloads!We've had some big perfor...
Once the exclusive domain of senior executives, mobile devices are now indispensable to most employees for conducting both their business and personal lives. The insatiable demand for smartphones, tablets, and other connected devi...
Fellow Technologists, Why are standards so important in Information Technology? Standards enable interoperability between complex systems. Many enterprises look to products that use these standards for easy integr...
In this business, "monetization" is often a nice way to say "profits". And profits usually come at someone else's expense. But what if I told you you could be profitable giving away your product? Further, what if...
Who doesn't know the Xerox company ? As long as I can remember, Xerox products have always been part of my professional life . In fact, even before working for a company, I used a Xerox machine. Originally known worldwide as a pri...
It is important to understand that the real value of the Internet of Everything (IoE) lies in both the number and value of connections. To illustrate this point, consider the following scenario. When your car becomes connected to ...
We just launched the Cisco at NRF 2013 website. Cisco will be at the National Retail Federation (NRF) Convention and Expo 2013 in New York City from January 14-15, 2013. I'd like to invite you to come visit the Cisco boo...
I presented at the BtoB Networking Breakfast (#BtoBNet) today and wanted to share my slides in this blog along with some food for thought based on my presentation: Not all social media participants will converse, comment or...
Did you hear the one about the pre-teen who installed a switch and some wireless devices in under ten minutes? And did I mention he is a regular kid? Okay, maybe an online gamer, but definitely not a member of his school's compute...