It was a busy day in San Francisco. OK, it's probably always a busy day in San Francisco. But the second day of Cisco Collaboration Summit was definitely a busy one. Consultants and analysts toured centers of innovation, part...
In the next few years we will reflect on the third annual Internet of Things World Forum (IoTWF) this week and realize that 2015 was the inflection point for the Internet of Things (IoT) and digitization. Leaders from around the w...
Co-authored with Munish Khetrapal Upping Your Livability Index As cities and countries around the globe are facing an onslaught of new and confusing challenges such as urban sprawl, safety and security, traffic congestion, and tra...
A key discussion point I keep hearing again and again this week during the Internet of Things World Forum in Dubai is that the success of IoT depends greatly on developing the right workforce with the right skills. I was honored t...
It's always nice to have your CEO stop by your event's opening keynote. So it's safe to say that Cisco's Rowan Trollope had a pretty good day after CEO Chuck Robbins joined him on stage to say, "I fundamentally believe that you ca...
If you've ever tried to dial in to a conference call from the school's carpool lane after dropping off your kids and ended up with the other parents honking at you while you tried to join, you won't recognize Hollywood's version o...
At Gartner's Data Center Conference this year, everyone is talking about how Data Centers are evolving to meet the needs of mobile, social, Big Data, and cloud native applications. The Data Center, People, and Processes are the fo...
Guest Blog by Leonard Luna, Marketing Manager Cisco recently announced a new solution that will be instrumental in the network digitization transformation era: Software Innovations for Cloud Scale Networking. These enable service ...
Last week I attended the 2015 London Gartner Data Center conference. Shadow IT -Addressing the Challenges with the Cisco Cloud Consumption ServicesIn my first blog (part 1) on this event, I covered some of my main learnings...
During three days in Dubai -what many call the Silicon Oasis - I joined a new and changing world of thinkers and doers. We experienced first-hand the smartest advances in 21stcentury technology and glimpsed into the future of what...
Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month's release sees a total of 12 bulletins released which address 71 vulnerabilities....
Any discussion on digital transformation and IoT leads to the fundamental question -"What are the possibilities and impacts in my industry?" The manufacturing industry has been dealing with this question for the last 50 years and ...