Cisco asks the industry to think aggressively and to accept risks when it comes to 5G planning. I was fortunate to attend the NGMN 5G Industry Conference in Frankfurt Germany March 24-25th. And while Frankfurt in March is a bit ch...
A Q&A with Cisco Vice President of Intellectual Property, Dan Lang According to a report from global recruitment firm WilsonHCG, tech companies are the most successful among the Fortune 500 at finding and recruiting top ...
Photo courtesy of Klaus with K, Creative commons.Customers frequently ask how to avoid a "wild wild west" situation as they move from tightly-controlled traditional infrastructure to the self-service, highly abstracted model that ...
Recently, I have been reading about organizational evolution. There are some great articles and insights out there, but the common theme running through all of them is that we face an unpredictable future and we need to be agile. ...
Intro Historically, networks have always been at risk for new, undiscovered threats. The risk of state sponsored hackers or criminal organizations utilizing 0-day was a constant, and t...
If you do not know theInternational Society of Service Innovation Professionalsor ISSP, I encourage you to do so. ISSIP is an amazing organization with very active Cisco engagement; and yes Cisco is a co-founder of ISSIP. ISSIP de...
Protecting data, maintaining compliance, and enabling the business is a balancing act. Put too many controls in place and you inhibit workflow. Rely exclusively on traditional security tools and you lack the visibility to detect a...
I was on a weeklong business trip to London last month, and as I made my way to purchase a ticket for Heathrow Express train, I realized that I had left my corporate credit card at home. It was close to midnight in London, and Hea...
Location,location, location. We so often hear the axiom that location is what drives the value of real estate. But location is also key to extracting context from on-site data for analytics and business outcomes. And, the value ge...
There's no doubt that the Internet of Everything will have profound implications for all of the world's industries. However, the vast majority of these industries are located on land, leaving the two-thirds of the Earth covered in...
It's fun seeing some of the quirky examples of home pages on web sites today, including Amazon's retro "April 1, 1999" page. I can't think of a time we've ever done anything like that on Cisco.com, mainly because we don't wan...
In our consumer-centric society, product recall announcements grab headlines and attention. As their costs continue to climb, enterprises have weathered recent recalls with record-breaking costs that have soared into the billions....