On Veterans Day, I want to acknowledge and honor the men and women who have served in the U.S. armed forces ... as well as the families, friends, and coworkers who have supported them. Cisco is a military friendly company and we a...
By now, many of us in communications know how difficult it can be to break through the noise andmakesure our messages and stories are heard.And while this is an exciting time to be a corporate communications professional, it's als...
We continue to evolve the ways we interact and communicate. Still, telephony remains a foundation element of business communications. Even as we bring technologies into the collaboration mix, telephony is still a default opt...
On November 3rd, 2014 at the Software Defined Network-Multiprotocol label Switching SDN-MPLS (Software Defined Networking-Multiprotocol Label Switching) Conference in Washington D.C: I moderated a stellar panel titled, "Devel...
Recently, I wrote about the LEADS Act proposed by U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Dean Heller (R-NV), and Christopher Coons (D-DE), which offers a thoughtful approach to a knotty problem-whether and how governments should be emp...
Cisco customers, partners, and field have been eagerly awaiting the release of the latest version of the Identity Services Engine and the AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. Well, the wait is now over! After another highly successf...
In my previous blog, I explained how COBIT 5 provided a robust framework to understand your users' expectation for IT services. With this knowledge in mind, we can now depict the value that your IT department should provide g...
In Silicon Valley -home to one of the greatest economic engines in the world -there is a silent tragedy that affects more than 250,000 people every month -and that's hunger. Hunger doesn't discriminate. It affects the young and th...
Cisco's 2014 Future of Work survey results were published the other day and reveal many thought-provoking trends. For example, did you know that the majority of today's professionals would relinquish theirtelevisionbefore they let...
We recently reviewed the results and findings of Cisco's Social Selling pilot program in a 3-part series: Social Selling in Action-Part 1: Innovation starts with Sales Social Selling in Action-Part 2: Attribution for Accurate M...
Last week, Cisco was once again named a top corporate philanthropist by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Cisco ranked#2 with US$19.2 million in contributions to Silicon Valley nonprofits and community organizations - just$240,...
I'm stealing this text directly from Torsten Hoefler's blog, because I think it's directly relevant to many of this blog's readers: Our book on "Using Advanced MPI" will appear in about a month - now it's the time to pre-or...