2014 ended with a flurry of technology conferences in Europe and the Middle East. In November, the European Commission's (EC) annual Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Conference addressed how to make the EC a 2...
Reducing costs remains amongst the top reasons why organizations use public cloud services. However,when calculating the costs of public cloud services organizations need to look well beyond the license fees and billed costs. With...
Simple is rarely a word used to describe Data center or Campus networks. Network operators and administrators are often bogged down by the complexity of network design and related configuration. Cisco has an innovative soluti...
As more and more users and devices are connecting to the network via WiFi, Cisco has been focused on creating the best wired network to enable mission critical wireless: In 2013, we introduced Catalyst 3850 & 3650 Stackable ...
When I'm stuck in one of Silicon Valley's many traffic jams, my frustration level rises as rapidly as my speedometer slows down. I think about how the digital synchronization of highways, vehicles and traffic lights could unclog c...
When people think of mentoring, the images of an apprentice learning from his master are often rendered. The senior blacksmith guiding his pupil through the craft he has spent his life perfecting. Over the years mentoring has chan...
Last week marked the first steps forward for a broad-based coalition of businesses who are working together to fight wanton abuse of the patent litigation system by patent assertion entities (PAEs). The coalition -United for ...
"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men -the balance wheel of the social machinery."-Horace Mann, 1848 Mann, is he right. Education paves the way to opportunity and ...
Recently I had the privilege to exchange thoughts at a roundtable discussion about the Future of Managed Services with our strategic partner Presidio. I would like to share some highlights from that dynamic dialogue. We all agreed...
It is amazing how a vision can start, grow, morph and become a reality. Van White, President of The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) and Rochester City School District School Board President, had a vision, and he ...
A lot happened in IoT in 2014. About this time last year, John Chambers laid out$1.9T market projection for IoT at CES and that drew significant attention and generated momentum in many industries. Over the year, we saw some real ...
I've mentioned it before: the run-time systems of MPI implementations are frequently unsung heroes. A lot of blood, sweat, tears, and innovation goes into parallel run time systems, particularly those that can scale to very large ...