Last week, Cisco was once again named a top corporate philanthropist by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Cisco ranked#2 with US$19.2 million in contributions to Silicon Valley nonprofits and community organizations - just$240,...
Cisco's 2014 Future of Work survey results were published the other day and reveal many thought-provoking trends. For example, did you know that the majority of today's professionals would relinquish theirtelevisionbefore they let...
In my previous blog, I explained how COBIT 5 provided a robust framework to understand your users' expectation for IT services. With this knowledge in mind, we can now depict the value that your IT department should provide g...
Recently, I wrote about the LEADS Act proposed by U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Dean Heller (R-NV), and Christopher Coons (D-DE), which offers a thoughtful approach to a knotty problem-whether and how governments should be emp...
We continue to evolve the ways we interact and communicate. Still, telephony remains a foundation element of business communications. Even as we bring technologies into the collaboration mix, telephony is still a default opt...
I'm stealing this text directly from Torsten Hoefler's blog, because I think it's directly relevant to many of this blog's readers: Our book on "Using Advanced MPI" will appear in about a month - now it's the time to pre-or...
Undoubtedly you heard the news last week of Apple CEO Tim Cook's open letter in which he publicly acknowledges his sexuality and expresses deep pride in being gay. While the headline alone is remarkable -the real treasure ca...
There are people all over the world doing truly innovative acts to move the technology needle, but without proper support, many of these ideas fail to come to true fruition. We at Cisco are committed to doing our part by guiding t...
This post was authored by Yves Younan and edited by Armin Pelkmann Table of contents CVE-2014-3697, VRT-2014-0205CVE-2014-3696, VRT-2014-0204CVE-2014-3695, VRT-2014-0203 Cisco Talos is announcing the discovery a...
As retailers will have us believe, we've already kickstarted the holiday season, but with Cisco participating in three mobility events in the span of 5 days, it also feels like mobility season here. Managing BYOD and Mobility USA...
Over the past several years, I've been lucky enough to be a part of two important trends in the networking industry -the evolution of open standards and open APIs, and the definition of policy as the key interface to the network. ...
I have always found it easy to confidently stand on what I know. I have found it even easier to stand on what I think I know. The difficult part is finding the line where one becomes the other. When does confidence become overconf...