Have you been thinking about becoming more active on Twitter and haven't gotten around to it yet? Often, it can be difficult to dive in. I've seen this often through planning a department wide social media plan, and I've go...
If you're in an SMB company you might think of telepresence as a tool built for enterprise, something that would be nice to have for your small business but just out of reach. You'd be wrong. Video conferencing solutions like Tele...
Welcome back to the latest episode of Engineers Unplugged, featuring the inimitable dynamic duo of storage,Vaughn Stewart(@vStewed) andChad Sakac(@sakacc). They discuss three key trends in storage today: flash, distributed DAS, an...
My last blog talked about the challenges of becoming an omnichannel retailer, and how stores are still learning how to make changes that cut across their entire business. We discussed how, appearances to the contrary, omnichannel ...
Are you in the Northern California Bay Area and want to hear about Open MPI and/or Cisco's usNIC technology next week? If so, you're in luck! I'll be speaking at Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL) next Thursday, November 7, 2013, at 2:30...
With Senate confirmation of incoming FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and Republican Commissioner Michael O'Rielly, the FCC is now back at full strength. A full plate of issues critical to the future of innovation and the national e...
At Cisco's inaugural Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Barcelona this week, I spoke about how IoT is impacting multiple industries and public sector creating tremendous business value for companies, cities and governments ar...
Stop-think-connect is not only for kids. Everyone, including nerds like me and network and security professionals, should pay more attention before connecting any device to the Internet. Routers (wireless and wired), industrial co...
By now you've probably heard quite a bit about the newest generation of Wi-Fi, 802.11ac. I'll save you the gory details, just know it's about 3x faster than 802.11n and will help to improve the capacity of your network. Jame...
Earlier in this month the OpenStack community came out with the biannual OpenStack release -Havana. According to the OpenStack Foundation, not only did Havana add close to 400 new features across Compute (Nova), Storage (Swift), N...
The first time I met Jim Barton (DVR pioneer and TiVo co-founder) I was a young man looking at the hottest company in Silicon Valley in the day: SGI, the place where Michael Jackson and Steven Spielberg just arrived to visit, the ...
"Community policing is central to the success of the police mission." ...