Food for thought The other day, I went to the cafe to grab my lunch and notice something that got me thinking of an IT problem we're going to see more and more. I'm not a soccer sport fan but of course I am aware of the 2014 FIFA ...
Two years back, I disparaged hybrid clouds in my blog: "Why Hybrid Clouds Look Like my Grandma's Network". Since then the pain and necessity of many clouds in business environment has become acute. I see a great similarity between...
It has been predicted that everything in the future will be connected and "communicate" with one another. There is even a phrase for it -the Internet of Everything (IoE). The impact of these connections is all about improving conn...
Working in the Data Center and Cloud Professional Services team in Cisco on cloud and software defined networking, I am sometimes asked "What do you guys in Cisco Services really do?" [especially by people in my office :-)] ...
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists hosted by Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week 25 Cisco Champions gather in a small room (aka the white box) at the Moscone Center. Topics: Cisco Live (#CL...
Safety is a prerequisite for a healthy city economy. Businesses and families move to safer cities. Tourists think about it when deciding where to go for vacation. Events organizers heavily weigh safety when selecting venues. Incre...
Every day our world becomes increasingly connected. And as the Internet of Everything (IoE) continues to develop, service providers who provide us with video, voice, and data services are faced with managing explosive growth of de...
During the exciting atmosphere at 35,000 attendees, customers, and partners were encouraged to accelerate customer engagement, "simplify everything and do anything". IoE and Big Data factored into many breakouts...
Simple Network Monitoring Protocol (SNMP) has been widely deployed as an important network management tool for decades, is a key component of scalable network device management, and is configurable in nearly all network infrastruc...
What if... ...You have access to unlimited computing power at a reasonable price... ...Everything is connected to everything else... Then... Would you run cities the same way? Would you live your life the same way? I think you'll ...
Did you know . . . there are currently about 2 connected devices for every human being on the planet? more than 99 percent of things in the physical world are still not connected to the Internet? analysts are predicting the wo...
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists hosted by Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week Ed Saipech, Director of Applied Research at Savvis joins Cisco Champions Josh Atwell and Jeremiah Dooley. Th...