Over the past year, we saw the idea of software-defined networking (SDN) become an integral part of IT conversations globally. As this technology evolves, the term "network programmability" can be used to capture the idea of openi...
Note: The full report can be found here as well as chapter 1.2, "The Internet of Everything: How the Network Unleashes the Benefits of Big Data" The World Economic Forum launched the 2014 Global Information Technology Report (GIT...
In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged, Colin Lynch (@UCSGuru) and Giuseppe Paterno (@gpaterno) discuss Nexus 1000V running on OpenStack and the options this creates for the network engineer. It's all about faster deploymen...
Cisco Live 2014 is fast approaching in few weeks from now.This is an important year for Cisco Live as well as Fibre Channel (FC) along with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) family of products. For Cisco Live : it is celebrating ...
It is with great pleasure I introduce you to another industry and technology thought-leader from Cisco, Clara Alvarado. Clara Alvarado is Cisco's Solutions Marketing Manager for Applications Enablement and Management portfolio for...
In the last blog on revenue generation marketing, I took some time to discuss how our operational implementation was working at Cisco. As part of that, I shared the four main best practices we discovered during our revenue generat...
Note:This is the first of a three-part series onNext Generation Data Center Design with MDS 9700; learn how customers can deploy scalable SAN networks that allow them to Scale Up or Scale Out in a non disruptive way. Part 2 ...
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists, hosted by Cisco's Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week we're talking about Cisco TACOPS (@CiscoTACOPS) which connects the unconnected in the middle of cri...
In a previous article I talked about my thermostat and the Internet of Everything [read here] I questioned the true value my smart meter was providing to my home and my wallet. I said what's missing is a thermostat that helps me u...
When I was in grade school, my best friend had a favorite saying whenever he disagreed with somebody's observation that two things were really similar. "It's the same, only different," he would quip. Though this phrase was mostly ...
Guess what? Convergence is happening again, and it's happening at a faster pace with more profound implications than I have never seen before. Those of us who've been in the industry a long time have seen convergence happen ove...
This two-part blog series discusses the future of wearables and mobility in an#InternetOfEverything world. Since the dawn of time, humans have been motivated by an innate desire to be connected to each other and to information...