Venturing off the beaten path may just be the only way to stay ahead of the competition. And while IT-as-a-service and cloud computing concepts are not as precarious as once perceived, there are still a lot of unknowns as business...
Cloud is already here-and thriving. Today, twenty-three percent of total IT spending is devoted to cloud, and the increase in cloud's share of IT spending is expected to increase by 17 percent over the next three years. Yet as we ...
Have you ever put your car in for service and it came back with a 'door-ding', or some other damage? Now, to be clear you probably can't be 100% sure it didn't happen in a car parking lot, or was it kids being too rough with there...
Cisco continues to listen to our customers' feedback, and make improvements that address your biggest pain points. In a previous post, Jim Fuller, Senior Director of Technical Services focused on entitlement, joined us to talk abo...
The "We're Listening" blog keeps you in the loop about what Cisco is hearing from our customers and partners, and what we're doing to address your top pain points. Teams across Cisco work together to fix these areas of concerns, a...
Your Location Has Changed, Carry On! Solving the Network Location Problem with LISP (Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol) The first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions location is our GPS location. Our ability to roa...
"Growth is inevitable and desirable, but destruction of community character is not. The question is not whether your part of the world is going to change. The question is how." -Edward T. McMahon Does your housekeeping list look l...
If you've been following my past blogs and presentations, you've heard me talk about "Data in Motion." That's the catch-all term used to describe the swelling flood of data that is at maximum value while still in motion (and often...
Cisco recently released the latest version of our VNI Forecast, a 5-year look ahead at data traffic growth trends. I caught up with Kevin McElearney, SVP Network Engineering at Comcast, to talk about the implications this latest V...
Have you seen this video? For those of you who are not familiar with the technology, Bonjour is a multicast DNS(mDNS) based protocol used to advertise and connect to network services such as printers, file servers, TV's. With the ...
With all of the focus on Software Defined Networking, open networking, API's, you name it, I do often wonder how, with all of this 'openness', does an Enterprise keep their network secure? After years of security teams working &nb...
The IT (Information Technology) and the OT (Operational Technology) "worlds" are requiring convergence to meet the growing complexity of a more informed customer driven market. Not only in the technical sense, but also organi...