Co-authored with Dani Schrakamp Work Day Journey for the Digital Citizen Wake up. Get ready for the day. Hurry up to...wait in traffic? According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, traffic congestion in the United States al...
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we're talking about Flexpod, an integrated computing, networking, and storage solution developed by Cisco and NetApp. Its configurations and workl...
"Inbound marketing is more effective than outbound marketing." Sound like a quote from a recent marketing article? It's actually a key takeaway from my doctoral thesis, published back in 2008 and entitled, "How Companies Us...
Data Centers and Clouds are all about applications. The efficacy of a data center or cloud deployment is a function of how quickly applications can be stood up, scaled or de-commissioned as required. As new architectures continue ...
In my last blog, we talked about the current age of digital disruption and how unicorns are changing the tech landscape. What Does This Mean For You Though? As a result, IT and LoBs are under more competitive pressure than ever be...
In my last post, I discussed Bimodal IT and how some enterprises are adopting it as a way to manage the tradeoffs between "keeping the lights on" and business agility. That's not to say it's easy. Operating bi-modally still requi...
John Chambers has often commented publicly about how Cisco's innovation engine is on "fire." Within Cisco's Collaboration and Endpoint Technology Group (CETG), we certainly feel that way. I just got word that independent industry ...
Once upon a time, the world's greatest inventions always seemed to come from individual geniuses locked in a room day and night on their own. We often think of Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone by himself, Thomas...
Cisco's consulting team shows off their full geekiness.The words "geek" or "nerd" are often thrown about with negative connotations, but not at Cisco! Here, we wear our geek badges with pride, and like to think that being geeky is...
The pace of business is accelerating. As consumers, the internet has changed our expectations for how to order products, services or information as well as how fast it is delivered. Think about it. We acces...
Traditional to Big Data to IoT: Transaction Processing Performance Council Establishes Internet of Things Working Group (TPC-IoT) Over the past quarter century, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has developed s...
After several months leading the managed security services portfolio at Cisco, I sat down with the social media team to discuss my path to Cisco, the evolution of the security market, and the future of security. [Note: This is an ...