Within the next five years, more than 1 million armed forces personnel are expected to transition from U.S. military to civilian life. As our veterans return from deployments such as Iraq and Afghanistan, many of them will need ne...
Cisco IT has always encouraged employees to use the tools that help them work most efficiently from anywhere on any device. As the range of IT services we offered has increased, we noticed that the process of acquiring the various...
The mobile satellite communications market is experiencing strong growth globally with mobile workers, cargo, and remote applications driving the industry. This diverse market consists of handsets, modems, ships, human passengers,...
When was the last time you turned on your new gadget, opened an app, or logged onto a website and found that you needed to attend a training course before you could use it effectively? At times, we in the IT industry fall into the...
Some of our Cisco Services strategy and design consultants and leaders are at CiscoLive in Orlando this week. If you are around, please take some time to learn from their hands on expertise. They are the leading expone...
Cisco partner Anittel has announced that it will be implementing a new communication system, based on Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution, for the Tasmanian Government. By hosting its communication and collaboration systems in the...
My previous blogs have turned into a "in a world" series introducing the reader to the versatility of the Cisco Unified Computing System. We are no strangers to the fact that data collection and data records are exploding.&n...
Today, I had the opportunity to speak with students of the Cisco Networking Academy. These students were selected to run the network at Cisco Live this year and run the Cisco Network Operations Center (NOC). An innovative informat...
It is not new that people are referring to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) as Bring Your Own Malware (BYOM). In 2012 alone, Android malware encounters grew 2,577 percent (for details, see Cisco's Annual Security Report). Many organiz...
The HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule, released January 2013, introduced some significant changes and updates. The 2012 HIPAA audits, performed by KPMG, concluded with some initial findings released by the Department of Health and Hu...
I've previously posted on "Why MPI is Good for You" (blog tag: why-mpi-is-good-for-you). The short version is that it hides the typical application programmer from lots and lots of underlying network stuff; stuff that they r...
When you think about the technology transitions that have happened in just the past 20 years and the number of connections that have been enabled, it's truly mind boggling. The world wide web was just in its infancy in 1993. The f...