Guess what? Convergence is happening again, and it's happening at a faster pace with more profound implications than I have never seen before. Those of us who've been in the industry a long time have seen convergence happen ove...
In a previous article I talked about my thermostat and the Internet of Everything [read here] I questioned the true value my smart meter was providing to my home and my wallet. I said what's missing is a thermostat that helps me u...
In the last blog on revenue generation marketing, I took some time to discuss how our operational implementation was working at Cisco. As part of that, I shared the four main best practices we discovered during our revenue generat...
Cisco Live 2014 is fast approaching in few weeks from now.This is an important year for Cisco Live as well as Fibre Channel (FC) along with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) family of products. For Cisco Live : it is celebrating ...
Note: The full report can be found here as well as chapter 1.2, "The Internet of Everything: How the Network Unleashes the Benefits of Big Data" The World Economic Forum launched the 2014 Global Information Technology Report (GIT...
Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) networks have historically been completely separate, with users of each living in blissful isolation. But the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing all of that! In the IoT...
When I was in grade school, my best friend had a favorite saying whenever he disagreed with somebody's observation that two things were really similar. "It's the same, only different," he would quip. Though this phrase was mostly ...
Note:This is the first of a three-part series onNext Generation Data Center Design with MDS 9700; learn how customers can deploy scalable SAN networks that allow them to Scale Up or Scale Out in a non disruptive way. Part 2 ...
It's springtime...typically the time of year when you need to purge your house of all the clutter that's accumulated during the winter.At the same time, spring always reminds me to do some extra sprucing up around the Cisco digita...
Last week at Redhat Summit in San Francisco, Cisco Data center was well represented in speaking sessions, and solutions expo. I saw lots of traffic at our demo booth featuring Cisco ACI with OpenStack. Customers and Partners alike...
This two-part blog series discusses the future of wearables and mobility in an#InternetOfEverything world. Since the dawn of time, humans have been motivated by an innate desire to be connected to each other and to information...
While out talking to customers, I've continually heard about three fundamental security challenges they are wrestling to manage: changing business models, a dynamic threat landscape, and fragmentation of security solutions. ...