Dan O'Malley talks about Cisco Systems offerings that are resonating in the Energy Industry and elsewhere. Cisco helps customers pre-plan for storms and to respond to disasters with sophisticated collaboration and device connectiv...
ITIL is simply a set of best practices for IT service management (ITSM). Over many years, IT practitioners have followed ITIL to manage the lifecycle of traditional IT-services. However, with the rise of cloud services, it's chang...
Last week, I shared with you how to set up WAN networking with Cisco Prime Infrastructure. Today, as the second blog of my 5-part blog series, I'm going to discuss with you how to connect your branch site users to the LAN and...
Over the past six weeks I participated in three Gartner BI and Analytic Summits in Sydney,London, and most recently Las Vegas. I love going to these events, as they are a great opportunity to: Stay abreast of the latest trends t...
Organizations are under relentless attack, and security breaches happen every day. A global community of attackers creates advanced malware and launches it via multi-faceted attacks and through multiple attack vectors into organiz...
On March 26, I gave a presentation on Cisco's culture of innovation at the Unleashing Innovation Summit in New York City. This venue gave me the chance to discuss our belief that the next billion-dollar idea can come from anywhere...
Since Cisco UCS Mini launched last September, Cisco and our partners (Citrix, EMC, Microsoft, NetApp, Nimble Storage, Oracle, SAP, and VMware) have been hard at work putting together a wide variety of solutions. On the way to trad...
Let's step into the "way back machine." It's 1985, and my friends and I are waiting in a long line to purchase U2 concert tickets. We are beyond excited; they are coming to the Worcester Centrum and we are determined to score tick...
Last week, I was acknowledged by the Alum Rock Counseling Center for my personal commitment to mentoring at-risk students. As I prepared my thank you remarks, I was reminded how much I value youth mentoring nonprofits su...
I recently wrote in my blog about a partner, WWT, that quickly developed a network replication solution across dual DC using the programming interface on the APIC. Our own development team, just published a complete manageme...
Most of you who've either purchased or delivered cloud services have been asked for an SLA (Service Level Agreement). I've seen SLAs that can be measured on inches of paper. Why so big? Just consider getting 10 people in a ...
The debate of what we should be learning seems to be a more frequent topic today. For instance, there's been a long-standing question for each new networker: after learning a little about routing and switching, does a relative new...