One of the things I like best about Cisco's focus on security is the internal SecCon conference we put on each year. It focuses on security threats, defenses, and innovation. Although I participate as a trainer, organizer, and rev...
There are many advantages in outsourcing functions to specialist providers that can supply services at lower cost and with more functionality than could be supplied in-house. However, companies should be awarethat when buying serv...
If there was a developing market opportunity that would bring you$19 trillion (with a "T"), you'd probably be interested, wouldn't you. If that market's impact on the world-not just the technology sphere-was going to have 5-10 tim...
Here at Cisco we are busy getting ready to go to NRF next week, which is being held in New York on Jan. 12-15. Cisco is at the show expo on Jan. 13-14, and will be featuring four company thought leaders in the annual Big Ide...
Here today at CES 2014,the show is kicking off in full swing. With attendance of over 150,000 people expected, the buzz is building off of last year around the latest 4K/UltraHD televisions, smart devices, and wearables with the o...
For pay-TV service providers, delivering multi-screen TV services is a must. Same goes for embedding web and social applications. But with the proliferation of video-enabled devices such as set top boxes (STB) and computer el...
Happy New Year to all my readers, and best wishes for 2014! Of course, the retail year starts off with a bang at the NRF trade show being held in New York on Jan. 12-15. Cisco is at the show expo on Jan. 13-14, and will be f...
Barbara Casey, Senior Executive Director for Healthcare Business Transformation at Cisco, recently wrote about challenges that patients face when navigating the continuum of care in our currently disconnected care settings. I...
The website of the OpenSSL project, which provides a widely-used SSL/TLS implementation, was breached on 29th December and defaced (OpenSSL.org announcement). This defacement only affected the website of the project, however. The ...
2013 was an incredible year, filled with both good times and bad times. It also proved to be a year for technology to become even more intertwined with our lives. As we move forward into the first month of the New Year, let ...
A new year means new users and new devices. More devices means more network crowding. Mobile users demand bandwidth and speed, while the network is increasingly overwhelmed by the sheer number of devices. The networks of today and...
It's a new year, so one thing is certain: It's time to go to Las Vegas for the International Consumer Electronics Show. CES is always an energetic annual kickstart here at Cisco, since so much of our mission is to develop and buil...