Success in retail hinges on a deep understanding of consumers. Anticipating their wants and needs - then offering the right product, in the right place, at the right time, and for the right price - has always been paramount. To tr...
Hunger reveals itself in different ways in different corners of the globe: In India, where 43 percent of the country's children are underweight, students line up in their school cafeteria for what may be their only meal of ...
This is our fourth preview of what Cisco will be showcasing at the 102nd National Retail Federation Convention and Expo on January 14 and 15, 2013 in New York City. At the Cisco booth, I will be hosting demonstrations of the Cisco...
I believe that the New Year will signal three major shifts in education: The Internet of Everything, Shared Services, and Cloud Computing. We are rapidly moving into a phase that we call "The Internet of Everything." T...
The theme for this year's SecCon was "Building on a Foundation of Security." The breadth of topics discussed that are relevant to being a trusted vendor and producing trustworthy products is quite significant. Naturally many of th...
In this blog, let us take a look at how Catalyst access switches profile the various connected devices and make the information available to various network services. Many devices like laptops, IP phones, cameras etc. are connecte...
Drawing from a recent read of "Case 1: The Seeds of Dysptopia" in the World Economic Forum 2012 Global Risks 2012 Seventh Edition, it's now more than apparent than ever that the impact of crime and terrorism in the digital world i...
The "We're Listening" blog continues to look at actions taking place across Cisco to improve your experience working with us. In this post, Jim Fuller, Senior Director of Technical Services focused on entitlement, joins ...
A social opportunity was knocking but it was hard to hear, buried under thick layers of social noise and harder to reach by the right people with the right message. Cisco knew customers wanted to engage and were using social media...
Just like we did last year, we're closing out 2012 with another set of awards from our colleagues in the Asia Pacific, Japan, and Greater China (APJC) market. These include: Telecom Asia Readers' Choice Awards 2012 (Kuala Lumpur, ...
This is my first year as an attendee at the Gartner DC conference. I've been here once before working demos on the tradeshow floor, but this year it's purely about information gathering. Tradeshows floors are great. &n...
As the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas, NV closes, I can't help feeling a bit of irony in bearing witness to the contrast in culture and atmosphere that this city encompasses relative to the experience many of us have ...