In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged, John Griffith (@jdg_8) and Kenneth Hui (@hui_kenneth) discuss Cinder-a way to abstract and give you block storage services inside of OpenStack. Great info with practical applications ...
I've come across many articles touting the differences between digital and social media. Here's one, for example, that suggests the words have lost their meaning entirely. It raises some good questions. What does digital even mean...
We've reached the 8thinstallment of our blog series on Cisco's Big Data and Analytics vision (beginning with Scott Ciccone's blog on September 23). No doubt by now you have either seen or heard about Cisco's broad data and analyti...
One hundred is one of the most ubiquitous numbers in life. We see it on money, best-of lists, memorials, compilations, scoring systems, and many other benchmarks. Cisco Unified Computing System? reached this significant milestone ...
Today's guest post comes from Ralph Castain, a principle engineer at Intel. The bulk of this post is an email he sent explaining the concept of a "slot" in typical HPC schedulers. This is a little departure from the normal f...
Carlos Dominguez, Cisco Senior Vice-President in the Office of the Chairman and CEO, will present the luncheon keynote address on October 30 at the Boston Children's Hospital Global Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards. Held...
Cisco VNI Forecast Projects 1.6 Zettabytes of Global IP Traffic by 2018 Last June, Cisco released an update to its annual Visual Networking Index (VNI), 2013 -2018. The forecast projects a global annual run rate of 1.6 zettabytes ...
Back in March, as part of Cisco Partner Summit, I presented the Cisco Partner Ecosystem, which includes our existing channel program and our services program, and involves a much broader set of partners, such as Independent Softwa...
We've had an exciting year across the Collaboration portfolio, particularly as it relates to our endpoint products. Just one proof point: We shipped our 1 millionth 7800 Series IP phone last month, less than one year since it...
As an IT security practitioner, you have a lot on your plate. Malware attacks are ever present. Hackers are smarter than ever and have the resources and persistence to compromise your organization. The malware being created today ...
According to Dr. Barry Devlin, amongst the foremost authorities on business insight and one of the founders of data warehousing, "Data without context is meaningless. It is also valueless. Without a well-understood business contex...
Seven billion. That's the number of mobile-connected devices that will be trying to get on networks this year. Now you're probably not going to be hosting all 7 billion of them, so let's try this number -4. As in...