If you've never heard about Cisco's dCloud team, you're about to. After this, you might think they're Cisco's best-kept secret, and the coolest team around. dCloud's Technical Lead Brian Villanueva and Program Manager Steve Dicks...
In my previous blog entry, I answered a user question about how MPI defines its global constants, specifically in the context of interactions with other languages. I went beyond that answer, and also explained why MPI does no...
Much has been published in the industry about how automation will result in job loss e.g. the book, The Second Machine Age, as an example. Further, the question is obvious as to whether or not the skills you have today will be rel...
I recently became a Ninja. That's right. A Cisco Security Ninja. You can be a Ninja too! Satyapriya Sharma has a little fun with her new Security Ninja achievement.The Cisco Security Ninja Program (http://wwwin-csdl.cisco.com/nin...
The landscape of IT has changed. The single-source provider era is quickly coming to an end as more companies embrace the world of multi-sourcing. In a 2014 report by IAOP & Information Services Group (ISG) Annual State of the...
Cisco's vision for the Intercloud is to create and manage workloads across multiple clouds and to provide a single point of consumption. Nowhere is that single point of consumption stronger than at the data layer, where the divers...
While we most often think of the Internet of Everything (IoE) as transforming public safety forces out in the field, change can actually begin before an officer is even leaves the station. Classroom training for officers is crucia...
Co-authored with Dani Schrakamp Let there be light...and parking spots! There's nothing like the quiet (or in my case, not-so-quiet) desperation of circling a few city blocks, over and over again, looking for a spot to park. You c...
As a long time networking veteran, I've watched our industry change and respond to a wide variety of disruptive changes. I remember PictureTel ISDN videoconferences on the IBM PC. Then came IP video conferencing in the early...
It started one day with a quiet knock on a classroom door where I was volunteering. A student at Joseph George middle-school in East San Jose asked if she could continue building her solar car at lunch time. Soon, she was joined b...
I care passionately about good leadership and adore discovering new books or hearing leaders speak. I have recently discovered and met Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers, a book on leadership I highly recommend. Liz's ...
Data is the lifeblood of your business, and it continues to multiply exponentially, creating big challenges for today's storage area network managers. Accessing that data quickly and cost-effectively 24 hours a day, 7 days a week ...