In previous blogs I have described how organizations are maturing beyond provisioning of individual servers to provisioning of richer cloud-based application stacks. Known as platform-as-a-service (PaaS), this capability tak...
Last night , at midnight PST , Microsoft ended support for Windows XP.While 12 years may seem an appropriate length of time to support a software product in today's fast-changing world, this decision will have a major impact on th...
In my last blog I talked about the value of Pfr to the IWAN solution. This week I wanted to talk about DMVPN and why it is going to be a critical component of your IWAN deployment. Your IWAN topology will most likely consist of on...
*** UPDATED 15-April 2014 *** By now, almost everyone has heard of the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability with CVE id CVE-2014-0160. The vulnerability has to do with the implementation of the TLS heartbeat extension (RFC6520) ...
The first blog of this series discussing the role of data security in the cloud can be foundhere. In 2014 and onward, security professionals can expect to see entire corporate perimeters extended to the cloud, making it essential ...
Cisco is back at Collaborate , the great show put in place by IOUG , this year in Las Vegas April 7- 10.More and more Oracle customers benefit now from the advantages provided by Cisco and Cisco partners for missi...
Did you notice the recent change to the menus on Cisco.com? We call them "megamenus" - those convenient lists that fly down when you mouse over the masthead bar on any page on Cisco.com. We recently updated the "Products &...
Dave Barnes, CIO of UPS, shares his perspective on the Internet of Everything. The Internet of Everything has transformed the operations of UPS, the world's largest package delivery company and a leading global provider of spec...
By Shruti Jain, Senior analyst, SP Thought Leadership The latest Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast 2013-2018, highlights the following key trends: The number of mobile users is growing: By 2018, more than 64% o...
This post was written by Willa Black, Director of Corporate Affairs for Cisco Canada, and was originally published on the Huffington Post. The territory of Nunavut, Canada is incredibly cold and remote. It's roughly a four-hour pl...
By Alfonso San Jose, Sales Consulting Systems Engineer Now that LTE networks have been rolled out by most of the service providers in the world, the next objective for operators is the migration of the voice service to the LTE ne...
Picture this scene, which took place last month at Cisco's Partner Summit in Las Vegas. I had been talking for a few minutes in the lobby of the Venetian with a long-time Cisco partner when he suddenly asked, "Raja, how are you gu...