Cisco's EnergyOps team is tasked with reducing energy consumption and increasing energy efficiency at our offices, labs, and data centers worldwide. Cisco's labs are our largest consumer of energy and although we are putting a lot...
Financial Services firms are being challenged and forced to change the way that their applications, information, content, compute, storage, and network resources are deployed and consumed. It is a multi-dimensional issue that is f...
(This is part 5 of a 7-part series sharing insights from Cisco partners about the Future of Cloud.) "A lot of things go into building out a cloud practice that most people don't realize until they get into it. Because we hav...
The situation that many IT people find themselves in today is dripping with irony. They've deployed so many innovations over the years to address so many business challenges, that now most of their time is dedicated to simply keep...
I've written about network traffic before (see this post and this post). It's the subject of endless blog posts, help forums, and instructional guides across the internet. In a High Performance Computing (HPC) context, there are s...
IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS) team helps clients protect their mission-critical information and maintain continuous business operations, with help from Cisco MDS solutions and Cisco Services. Business Cont...
This blog was co-authored by Kevin Brooks, Alex Chiu, Joel Esler, Martin Lee, Emmanuel Tacheau, Andrew Tsonchev, and Craig Williams. On the 21st of July, 2014, Cisco TRAC became aware that the websitedwnews.com was ser...
Customers gain great value from server virtualization in the form of virtual machines (VM) and more recently Linux Containers /Dockers in data centers, clouds and branches. By some estimates, more than 60 % of...
I've been to the UK twice this year. The traffic is terrible! Worse than I ever remember! Commentators that's a good sign -a sign of economic prosperity. That certainly seems to be the case in the UK. My last European-related blog...
As the number of users of social media continues to grow, the boundary between our personal and professional lives begins to overlap. Unsurprisngly, the customer buying cycle is also beginning to change. By the tim...
In the last two blogs, I talked about the reasons for IT Transformation, understanding Enterprise Environment and how to effectively set management goals. As more and more companies begin to move towards IT Transformation, there a...
It's always interesting and often entertaining to observe how competitors promote their products and what they choose to focus on-and more importantly, what they choose not to focus on and what they hope people won't ask questions...