In today's digital world, communication platforms matter. In a recent Cisco Government blog post we looked at how antiquated communication systems hold back government agencies. The same holds true for educational institutions. Le...
As we settle into spring, I'm anticipating an exciting annual event - The Tech Challenge at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. This is an amazing program that brings together thousands of students and giv...
Welcome back to Engineers Unplugged. Today, we talk Big Data with Matthew Brender (@mjbrender EMC) and Hans De Leenheer (@hansdeleenheer Veeam). It's not just a lot of data, it's what you can do with it. For real world examples, a...
At the OpenStack Summit 2013, Red Hat announced RDO, a freely available, community-supported distribution of OpenStack. OpenStack is an open source cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networki...
The Cisco "Social Media for Savvy Marketers" event starts tomorrow! The event will be held on the Cisco San Jose campus this Thursday & Friday (4/18 -4/19/13). We are looking forward to dynamic sessions, with more ...
This year we're moving our Packet Optical Conference 2013 to San Jose and it promises to be an exciting three days (May 14-16) full of demonstrations and sneak peeks at new platforms and technology. We've also got a number of indu...
The Johnson City School District transformed its students' learning experiences, teachers' teaching experiences, and parents' academic insights with BYOD applications, allowing them the freedom to learn and connect anywhere, anyti...
I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural signing of National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnership agreements yesterday. Key stakeholders in attendance included National Security Agency Director, General Keith Alexander, Senat...
By Greg Smith, Service Provider Marketing Manager, Cisco OK, so the title of this article isn't totally accurate. Cisco's 100G DWDM solution won't work over barbed wire, or Cat-5 cable, or cotton string, but it will work on over 9...
Increase Profits by Making it Easy to Follow the Money Hundreds of cloud service providers around the world are seeing businesses connect into their clouds in increasing numbers. You might think this goes into the category of a "g...
Security is a tough nut that can't be cracked by one alone-neither technology nor research, neither corporations nor start-ups, and neither products nor processes. None of these alone can crack the security nut. The most important...
We first talked about the Mapping of Address and Port (MAP) method to handle IPv4 exhaust and the transition to IPv6 last week. MAP is based on two IETF drafts currently in the process of standardization indraft-ietf-softwire-map(...