It's easy to take our connectedness for granted, isn't it? We often don't even think about all the innovation behind our connections, but it's mind boggling when you actually consider just how much getting connected has revolution...
Here is something fun you can do today with your smart phone or tablet. It's an app that brings the Internet of Things alive from a newspaper or screen. How to get it: 1. First, go grab a copy of today's global Wall Street Journa...
As part of our ongoing support of the Australian and New Zealand partner community, last week we hosted the second annual Cisco Marketing Excellence partner awards. These awards are designed to recognise the great work that our pa...
Over the last several months, since Cisco announced its Open Network Environment strategy, there has been considerable progress on multiple fronts: -Early field trials (EFTs) with several Enterprise and Service Provider customers ...
Mobile learning is an important trend in education today. The Mooresville Graded School District (MGSD) is at the forefront of this trend with their successful "Digital Conversion" and 1:1 laptop initiative. MGSD embarked on this ...
Over the past year, Cisco has been increasingly vocal and active around open source solutions .One of my favorite blogger, Omar Sultan , spent a lot of time writing on the subject , starti...
For many children, visiting Santa Claus, sitting on his lap, and telling him what they want for Christmas is a highlight of the holiday season. But for a sick, hospitalized child, participating in this tradition can be impossible....
Innovation is often defined as novel technological invention. What is far less known about successful innovation efforts is that it takes a special breed of individual who possesses the rare combination of technical depth and shar...
It was way back at Interop in Las Vegas this year where one of our PR guys, Ben Stricker, asked if I would be interested in the tour of Petco Park coming up as part of CiscoLive in San Diego. I said 'yeah!' for a number...
Has your child visited with Santa yet? Then you know the excitement of hearing that jolly laugh and the "Ho Ho Ho" that accompanies Santa's twinkling eyes. But, what about the children who are hospitalized over the hol...
The Social Innovation Summit (SIS) is a place wherereallynice people who doreallynice things come together to sharereallyimportant innovations on ways to improve society...really! As a veteran of many conferences where hierarchy a...
With the end of the year fast approaching and the 31st Annual Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas this week, this post is dedicated to a quick reflection on emerging data center trends and their impact on securit...