This week Microsoft launched SQL Server 2014, their data management and business intelligence platform. SQL Server at Microsoft has grown tremendously over the years; it is far from its origins as a simple relational database th...
Private Clouds are fundamentally challenging how modern data centers are acquiring and consuming IT. Nearly half of large enterprises polled[1]have deployed a private cloud, its reasonable to say organizations are tackling h...
If you have a Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) in your branch -which most companies do -you won't want to miss the April 23rdwebinaron hidden capabilities of the ISR. These routers are the Swiss army knife of networking, and...
In this week's episode, Nils Swart (@NLNils) and Stace Hipperson (@stacehipperson) discuss how data becomes information via Open Daylight. Have they whiteboarded network engineer nirvana? Watch and see. More data! This is in fact...
In my last 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 unde...
This is a customer perspective guest blog contributed by Zack Sterngold, Boingo Wireless Vice President, Americas. The vision for a simple, seamless and secure Wi-Fi connectivity experience became a reality timed to this year's ...
Cisco Live, May 18-24, 2014, is quickly approaching and registration is open. This is the 25th anniversary of Cisco Live and we return to the Bay Area at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Educational sessions are organized into tech...
Previously I have blogged aboutNo SSID OutageandNo Client Reauthenticationwhereby even if your Cisco Wireless Controllers were to fail due to any reason, the clients will NOT experience any downtime due to Stateful Failover functi...
This post is coauthored by Andrew Tsonchev. Anyone can purchase an exploit pack (EP) license or rent time on an existing EP server. The challenge for threat actors is to redirect unsuspecting web browsing victims by force to the e...
The industry has been buzzing over the past years around Next Generation of Software Defined and Application Centric networks. If you missed that, it means that you were probably on planet ...Zircon (?). In his recent blog, ...
Trying to stay entirely up-to-date on the ways the Internet and data in general are changing is like trying to spot the winner in a horse race where the horses are traveling faster than the speed of light. Everything looks impress...
This is the first of a four part series on the convergence of IT and OT (Operational Technologies) Part 2will cover the impact of the transition to IP on Physical Security and the convergence of Physical and Cyber Security...