I'm one of the lucky ones. Many of my peers work in companies that aren't as forward looking about IT as Cisco is. Where they struggle to keep up with the demands of today's employees, I'm fortunate to work in an environment that ...
A story came out today showcasing the platform built to power Xerox Managed Print Services (MPS), and it's hard to describe better example of how Cisco's data center technology comes together to help unlock the full potential...
Today, everyone at Cisco is excited about the release of a new book - "The Human Face of Big Data" by Rick Smolan, a former Time, Life, and National Geographic photographer best known as the creator of the "Day in the Life" book s...
The United States continues to be the world's largest manufacturing economy, employing nearly 17 million people -about 1 in 6 private sector jobs. However, the modern manufacturing industry is struggling to attract the highl...
[WARNING: This blog post contains specifics on actual product features. Stop reading now if you prefer PowerPoint to Excel.] "Enterprise class." Sounds awesome. But does it have any meaning to your business? It turns out that it d...
BayThreat 2012, the third annual information security conference in the South Bay of San Francisco, will be held December 7-8 at The Firehouse Brewery in downtown Sunnyvale, Calif. This technical conference is well attended by sec...
Retention Trumps Satisfaction For about a decade, JD Power and Associates has been asking consumers to rate their satisfaction with insurance companies on a simple scale of 1-5. This summer, a study of the auto insurance industry ...
There has been major market traction this past year in the deployment of cloud services, but the discussion still too often focuses on cloud in the singular. Our experience has shown that companies are not typically adopting a sin...
In Cisco Data Center Services, we've been building towards this for the past 3 or 4 years. We're formalised our approach over the past year. Our early adopter customers have already given us terrific feedback. And tomo...
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was in London last week at a conference. I picked up the badge shown in the photo below, and it made me laugh, and I thought it would be a good image to pass on. VCE's Vblock ...
As more devices,people andthings become connected to the Internet, an unprecedented amount of data will be generated: data which can become a powerful tool for solving some of the greatest challenges facing our planet. I...
Physical servers lend the comfort of knowing where your data is located and having control over access and protection of that data. But from a business perspective, there is a lot virtualization can offer. So what's the compromise...