You may not have heard about BKK AS. They are actually the second largest power grid owner in Norway with over 180,000 customers. Like many power and energy companies, some of their equipment has been around a long time. It works,...
The worlds of Digital Analytics and Marketing Analytics have frequently led somewhat independent lives -with the Digital Analyst spending time looking at digital channels (web/mobile/social), reading out metrics, understanding con...
Application Centric Infrastructure Special EditionIt has been just a few short weeks since the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) began shipping, building upon the availability of the Nexus 9000 seri...
"The innovation pipeline is very strong, and you can expect to see announcements in the fall that will continue to accelerate our momentum with UCS and add to our competitive advantage." Those are comments from Cisco's earnings ca...
The classic work of English historical literature "The Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" is a book written by the English historian Edward Gibbon, which traces the trajectory of Western civilization from the height of the Roman Em...
Data centers are rapidly adopting integrated infrastructure to run their businesses. However, the monitoring and management tools for these integrated components are not yet converged. Performance monitoring and capacity planning ...
Cisco (UCS?) continues its tradition ofperformance and price/performance leadershipwith the announcement of aworld-record TPC-H benchmark at the 1000GB Scale FactorrunningMicrosoft SQL Server 2014.On august 20th 2014, the Cisco UC...
The city of Nancy was once the Art Nouveau capital of France. Today it is a smart city, incorporating tagging systems in its municipal infrastructure to give citizens access to data captured from traffic lights, bus systems, cross...
Steve Jobs is arguably the most amazing innovator of our times. I recently read some of his thoughts on innovation. His statement "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower," caused me to reflect upon my eight...
I don't think that anyone can deny that being in the IT industry at this time is exciting and interesting. It's also exhausting. There is a ton of hyperbole floating about on Twitter and the Blogosphere concerning the need for net...
****This article has been updated to remove a factoid discussing IoE and manufacturing job growth.**** We have entered the world of the Internet of Everything (IoE)-a world that brings people, data, processes and things together i...
As a business or technical leader, you know you need to protect your company in a rapidly evolving mobile ecosystem. However, threats are not always obvious. As malware and attacks become more sophisticated over time, business d...