The inaugural IoT World Forum closed today in Barcelona with the overall sentiment being that it was a resounding success. One of the key messages that emerged was the need for everyone to work together and for the customer soluti...
Is it the end of October already? As has been true for centuries, there is a tradition for children to wear costumes and disguise themselves while going door to door with a simple question: "Trick or treat?" While I am not sure th...
For me, Halloween, October 31st, marks the start of the joyful holiday season. Continuing onto Thanksgiving and Christmas, this time of year is full of family, friends and relaxation. For retailers on the other hand, today (...
Stop-think-connect is not only for kids. Everyone, including nerds like me and network and security professionals, should pay more attention before connecting any device to the Internet. Routers (wireless and wired), industrial co...
If you're in an SMB company you might think of telepresence as a tool built for enterprise, something that would be nice to have for your small business but just out of reach. You'd be wrong. Video conferencing solutions like Tele...
At Cisco's inaugural Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Barcelona this week, I spoke about how IoT is impacting multiple industries and public sector creating tremendous business value for companies, cities and governments ar...
Have you been thinking about becoming more active on Twitter and haven't gotten around to it yet? Often, it can be difficult to dive in. I've seen this often through planning a department wide social media plan, and I've go...
With Senate confirmation of incoming FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and Republican Commissioner Michael O'Rielly, the FCC is now back at full strength. A full plate of issues critical to the future of innovation and the national e...
The first time I met Jim Barton (DVR pioneer and TiVo co-founder) I was a young man looking at the hottest company in Silicon Valley in the day: SGI, the place where Michael Jackson and Steven Spielberg just arrived to visit, the ...
Today's events at the IoT World Forum included a very interesting keynote address by Cisco's CEO John Chambers, as well as some exciting breakout sessions. Leading business executives shared their ideas and visions, which in turn ...
Are you in the Northern California Bay Area and want to hear about Open MPI and/or Cisco's usNIC technology next week? If so, you're in luck! I'll be speaking at Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL) next Thursday, November 7, 2013, at 2:30...
Earlier in this month the OpenStack community came out with the biannual OpenStack release -Havana. According to the OpenStack Foundation, not only did Havana add close to 400 new features across Compute (Nova), Storage (Swift), N...