More than 56 million people in Latin America rose above the poverty line between 2002 and 2011. Thanks to a thriving job market and rising wages, the middle class in the region grew by 82 million people in that time span, as more ...
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a trickster king cursed with the eternal torment of fruitless labor. As punishment for his hubris and wile, Zeus condemned this hapless figure to the unending task of pushing a boulder up a mountai...
One of the things we tend to do as networking people is test configurations to see if things work the way we think they will. Case in point, I just had a talk with a fellow Champion, Teren Bryson (@someclown) and he was telling me...
I love football, especially the NFL. I grew up in Memphis - a city without a team. Oh, yes, we had WFL and USFL teams along the way. However, their owners could never convince the NFL to expand and let them in when the other leagu...
The SD-WAN Bill of Rights talks about your right to never visit a branch office again. Depending on the size of your organization, budget, and operational preference etc there are various ways to exercise this right: Opt...
It can be a tough world out there for a cloud provider. You're facing stiff competition from the big cloud players like Amazon and Google to deliver more flexible cloud services. But you have an edge that they don't. Customers can...
I can remember it vividly: The year was 1995, and I was working at a start up in Silicon Valley. What was the Internet like back then? It was certainly not ubiquitous, as it is today. At that point, the Internet was still fledglin...
At the end of last month, September 30th, Cisco received the International Corporate Energy Management Award from the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) for our global energy management program and our commitment to reduc...
Note: Cisco's Mohammed Ahmed of the Cisco IBM Alliance team was the key contributor for this blog post In the IT industry we understand that customer confidence and respect is a leading reason that customers choose IBM ...
That was one of the key themes discussed during today's "Internet of Everything -What's in it for Europe event" in Brussels, with MEP Kaja Kallas asking the audience to consider a change in innovation culture to capture the predic...
Like most "overnight" sensations, Jimi Hendrix was not an immediate success. He burst onto the American music scene at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, after a fascinating series of events first turned him into a superstar ...
Yesterday was "Back to the Future Day." Michael J. Fox had a glimpse into his futuristic world. What if you too had the same capability? Imagine this: you're an astronaut on a time travel space mission. You come upon a futuristic ...