During this year's Embedded Linux Conference in San Jose I will be presenting An Introduction to the Video4Linux Framework. As a long-term kernel contributor (since 2003), author of over 2000 kernel patches and co-maintainer of th...
In 1984, John Gage of Sun Microsystems coined the phrase "the network is the computer" as computing functions started to become increasingly distributed across the network. Today, boundaries that once separated individual computer...
Many of the existing switch and wireless infrastructures that were deployed 5 or more years ago were not designed for BYOD, pervasive mobility, advanced security, SDN and more. Let us look at these trends and the benefits of upgra...
Cisco's announcement on Cisco Cloud Services "Introducing Cisco's Global Intercloud" is the next step in our transformation towards being an end-to-end cloud platform and software function solutions vendor. This announcement...
At a recent event I saw a T-shirt that said "Remember when cloud only meant rain?" In the days before cloud computing, asking someone what they thought about cloud usually invoked a response about an animal-shaped formation ...
By beginning consideration of patent reform legislation, the Senate Judiciary Committee today took a significant step toward ending the abusive patent assertion entity business model. Yet, there is still a great deal of hard...
I love this image -Cisco's take on a bracket, like the ones so many of us filled out recently. It taps into the fact that the appetite of sports fans is almost insatiable with the buffet of content available to them, and that a n...
Today, we released the first Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication of 2014. Six years ago, Cisco committed to disclosing IOS vulnerabilities on a predictable schedule (on the fourth Wednesday of March and Septe...
Today I'd like to share some thoughts on Cisco's approach to Business-to-Employee (B2E) mobility and draw attention to today'smobility announcements. After more then ten years working on the amazing roller coaster called Cisco Dat...
To cross a busy intersection safely, it's best to have all of your senses alert. That way, ifyou don't happen to see that oncoming truck ignoring the "Walk" sign, you will probably still hear it. In the case of a heavy cement mixe...
The Cisco Champions Program is based on 5 key principles, the most important being its people. Recruiting top notch team members and giving them the opportunities they care about is what makes this program thrive. Thank you Cisco ...
In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged,Floris Grandvarlet(Cisco) andRichard Pilling(Intel) take on Big Data across the proverbial pond, at Cisco Live Milan. Where are we now, how are we going to approach the ever increasing...