My posts will be focused on bringing topics of interest to government and business decision makers and explaining topics that could be very technical at level to allow good business decisions. As a company, Cisco is blessed ...
By John Mattson, Senior Director of Marketing, Cisco Cable Access Business Unit By now you've heard from AT&T, Google Fiber, Verizon, and the mainstream media, about their plans to offer Gigabit services in over14 states that'...
At Cisco live! Orlando in June, Cisco unveiled its vision for an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a next-generation, secure data center fabric design. At the time, we were only able to unveil key conceptual aspects of ACI...
It wouldn't be an SCTE Cable-Tec Expo without a stellar lineup of technical papers and workshops -even better because each one happens twice, to alleviate trade show schedules. This year's program features seven papers and present...
There's no question that more people around the world are connecting to wireless networks at home, work and play via mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. This rise in mobile device usage begs the question: How soon wil...
The International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is a leading forum focusing on the integration of theory and experience in various disciplines of performance engineering. The conference has been bringing together ex...
It was not so long ago that people would often have to make difficult choices about their work. Your dream job might open up 3,000 miles away. Your new job means leading a team on the other side of the world. Your day is spent on ...
DNS is like the town gossip of the network infrastructure. Computers and apps ask DNS questions and you can ask DNS who has been asking to resolve malware domains. When internal trusted systems are using DNS to resolve the names o...
I recently wrote a blog titled Blade Server TCOandArchitecture -You Cannot Separate Them and thought a little more on the architecture side would be a good thing. With so much misinformation (dis-information?) about UCS runn...
There are two ways to write this blog. One is all positive, happy and humorous. The other is to be real. I've wrote both versions. I like the happy one better. I had some funny, "You know you're fat when..." Foxworthy-isc quips......
I've talked before about how getting high performance in MPI is all about offloading to dedicated hardware. You want to get software out of the way as soon as possible and let the underlying hardware progress the message pas...
When your incident response team gets access to a new log data source, chances are that the events may not only contain an entirely different type of data, but may also be formatted differently than any log data source you already...