Today's retailers face a rising tide of change, disruption, and challenges, all driven by technology. As their business landscape is upended, many are struggling to adapt to changing consumer behaviors, competition from disruptive...
In today's era of increasing connectivity, data is getting generated in vast proportions. Moreover, it is also important to be able to generate insights from it quickly and act accordingly. Gone are the days when one w...
It's NRF time again! NRF, the retail industry's biggest conference, is back in NYC this week. Big data and analytics are still top of mind this year in retail, but the hot topic added to the mix is the use of beacons powered by Bl...
With the near year come new resolutions. For many people, among those at the top of the list is getting a new job. For human resources leaders, the resolutions may be to get more creative to find new talent, and to retain an...
Let's start this blog with a hypothetical scenario. Suppose you're the CIO and you've committed to your CEO and the Board of Directors that your company will execute an innovative new strategy to delight your customers directly th...
Cisco will be featured in two Big Idea sessions at this year's NRF conference starting tomorrow, and I'm happy to introduce guest blogger Lisa Fretwell, who will be leading one of these two seminars. Lisa is the Managing Director ...
Shopping centres have been around for thousands of years, supposedly starting in Ancient Rome. The basic concept of a shopping centre has not changed much since then; a large building, or multiple buildings connected, which contai...
It appears only a short time ago we introduced Cisco ACI to the market, but it is already the one-year anniversary time. In this one-year period, we have seen tremendous momentum on customer adoption and partner eco-system for bot...
As a Senior Network Engineer I've seen many end-user issues that look like big problems but are actually very simple. The difficulty lies in a lack of understanding between end users and IT teams who support them. In this article,...
Over the past quarter century, industry standard bodies like the TPC and SPEC have developed several standards for performance benchmarking, which have been a significant driving force behind the development of faster, less expens...
This is my first blog post within the Data Center and Cloud technology area. I recently joined the Openstack@Cisco team under Lew Tucker focusing on advanced OpenStack System research as a Cloud Architect. As part of this role I p...
It can be challenging and expensive to design an efficient network and data center that minimizes downtime. Yet, even if you've put together a bulletproof solution, there's always the possibility of disaster to consider. Dev...