"Cyber threats. Security breaches. Hacking." As mobility becomes more pervasive, these words have become engrained in our work/life culture. The issue of cyber crime has earned national news headlines as governments across the glo...
Up in the mornin' and out to schoolThe teacher is teachin' the Golden RuleAmerican history and practical mathYou study' em hard and hopin' to pass Chuck Berry's old hit "School Days" sums up an educational model that has persisted...
One of the fascinating aspects of being an IT manager of a distributed company is discovering the office personalities. Not people personalities like "the office joker", but how each office itself has a personality of its own. The...
2014seems to be flying by. I cannot seem to keep up. The blur started with, well, Thanksgiving, the Holiday Season, New Years, Chinese New Year, and now Valentine's Day is on Friday. You made that dinner reservation right? We ofte...
Aside from an ill-timed Milanese taxi strike and a lot of rain and snow, the first CiscoLive of 2014 was a fascinating week.Cisco EVP Rob Lloyd announced our latest Cisco ONE capabilities with a new APIC Enterprise module and the ...
We live in a world of many clouds, clouds that are as unique as we are. Today's IT leaders are helping organizations manage the new demands of rapidly changing business requirements and the delivery of innovative services, all due...
In the world of IT, we drive toward operational consistency for greater efficiency and improved security. If everything runs the same across all our locations, it's much easier to train staff and manage the network. However, opera...
There's an adage that "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it," and all of us that are in the business of managing or running things pretty much live by that. But, how to do you measure something as squishy and ephemeral as ...
Cloud is changing the way businesses deploy and manage IT and business services. Industry analysts estimate that by the end of 2014, four out of 10 companies will have deployed a private cloud. But where do you start? Join Cisco a...
Hey data heads! O'Reilly Strata Conference kicks off tomorrow at the Santa Clara Convention Center. If you plan to go you better have tickets because the event is sold out. If you are attending the three days of sessions, keynote...
Register now for the educational webcast onFebruary 11th at 8 a.m. Pacific Time,- Design and Deploy Dynamic Fabric Automation in the Data Center Workloads continue to increase in data centers, be they virtual or physical. T...
First Open Daylight Summit took place exactly one year since we've started the project, to the day! Ah, those memories of having to stay quietly patient, from our first meeting, February 4th, 2013, and longer... in hinds...