Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month's release sees a total of 14 bulletins being released which address 57 CVEs. Four...
Bringing Alien Worlds Together in the Internet of Things In the 1990s, I, like millions of others, read the bookWomen Are from Venus, Men Are from Mars. This best-seller suggested that the frequent misunderstandings between gender...
Providing Business Intelligence (BI) reporting and analysis used to be a service that IT provided for their line-of-business counterparts. In recent years, however business users have increasingly taken the lead for their BI and a...
Buzzwords. There seems to be a new one every year that people fall over themselves trying to get into conversations. Companies pounce on the new word, like a tiger capturing its prey, and set-up 'Tiger Teams' to determ...
In a recent TechTarget survey, it was noted that despite the hypes about numerous benefits of SD-WAN -one of which is the ability to create a hybrid WAN environment (i.e. MPLS and Internet or LTE links), something Gartner claims w...
The electric utilities sector is facing some challenging times as it struggles with a regulatory model designed for an earlier era. As increased renewable integrations into the grid intensify, electric utilities will need to take ...
In the last two years, we've used Cisco Cloud Consumption Assessment and helped many customers discover and understand their cloud services, costs and security risks. The results are surprising! On average, enterprises use nearly ...
When evaluating cloud services, many organizations make the mistake of focusing largely on a service's contracted price. While this takes into account the initial outlay and operational cost of a cloud service, it fails to conside...
When you work at Cisco, the Internet of Everything (IoE) becomes more personal to each of us. However, for one Cisco employee, the Internet of Everything takes personal to a whole new level. Just a few months ago, Karen Miller Mor...
I recently flew from Heathrow to San Diego to attend Cisco Live. About an hour in and the cabin crew started serving dinner. It was a full flight and, unfortunately for me, I was seated right in the middle of the economy section. ...
We are living in an era of an increasingly connected economy and a business landscape that constantly has to keep pace for organizations to remain relevant and competitive. Thanks in part to the expansion of the Internet of Every...
When I speak to customers across different market segments they want the ability to deploy services at speed, at scale, at the lowest cost possible. They care about openness to drive rapid innovations in their environment. They wa...