Last week when I was on vacation in Istanbul, it happened to be the first week of the month-long 8thAnnual Istanbul Tulip Festival. As we were walking around the rainbow colored flower beds, I couldn't help but notice th...
Another year, another CiscoLive. This was the last year in the London venue, and since it was the third time we did it, we had a chance to incorporate learning from the previous two years. As a result, I would say the network was ...
Walking around the 2013 Hannover Messe Faire can be a daunting task whether its navigating through the Hannover campus and its' 13 co-located tradeshows or figuring out which one of the broad range o...
We're at the final day of Microsoft's Management Summit 2013 (MMS 2013) here in Las Vegas. We've handed out ~1,500 t-shirts; performed hundreds of demos on our technologies Nexus 1000V, UCS Manager, VM-FEX, and Cisco PowerTool; ev...
Congratulations to all OpenDaylight founding partners, contributors, users and supporters. I am convinced this ambitious endeavor will redefine the meaning of"open source = collaboration". This is a historic event, the coming...
Our "Future of Video" (formerly known as "Fresco") wall took home the National Association of Broadcasters' Technology Innovation Award this week, during a grand ceremony keynoted by NASA chief Charles Bolden. We are thrilled! (An...
This is my talk I gave last week at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara. One slide that did not make the deck are the top reasons why people struggle with building private clouds Management and operations process. Culture Funding Mod...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This post is a continuation of Brendan's from Tuesday on my observations from the Geneva Airport Passenger Terminal Expo. One of the things that strikes me here at the Air Passenger Expo is the proliferation of comp...
The buzz this year at Hannover Messe Fair is around "The Integrated Industry". One of the key technologies that's enabling this convergence is unmodified Ethernet being deployed to the factoryandplant floor. Cisco's co...
I was just recently informed that my talk was accepted at the Midwest Open Source Software Conference (MOSSCon). w00t! MOSSCon will be held at the University of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, on May 18-19, 2013. &...
Cisco Chief Technology and Strategy Officer Padmasree Warrior offers a commentary on the Internet of Everything today on CNBC.com. She states in part: "The Economistmagazine cover story recently explored whether innovation was d...
Self-Service Arrives to Workload Automation. Have Your Users Paint Your Fence. It's close to 11 p.m. on the last day of the quarter. And I.T. gets an urgent request to post-pone a closing of the books process because there's a lar...