For me, Halloween, October 31st, marks the start of the joyful holiday season. Continuing onto Thanksgiving and Christmas, this time of year is full of family, friends and relaxation. For retailers on the other hand, today (...
Problems never end but neither does the ingenuity of Cisco! Following the success of its predecessors, HackIT III took place at the end of July, this time bigger, better and awesome-er than before. T...
This month marks the three year anniversary of Cisco's partnership with NetApp and our development of FlexPod. Over the years, we've experienced some tremendous growth, more than doubling new installations year-over-year, an...
At Cisco's inaugural Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Barcelona this week, I spoke about how IoT is impacting multiple industries and public sector creating tremendous business value for companies, cities and governments ar...
Have you been thinking about becoming more active on Twitter and haven't gotten around to it yet? Often, it can be difficult to dive in. I've seen this often through planning a department wide social media plan, and I've go...
With Senate confirmation of incoming FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and Republican Commissioner Michael O'Rielly, the FCC is now back at full strength. A full plate of issues critical to the future of innovation and the national e...
The first time I met Jim Barton (DVR pioneer and TiVo co-founder) I was a young man looking at the hottest company in Silicon Valley in the day: SGI, the place where Michael Jackson and Steven Spielberg just arrived to visit, the ...
Today's events at the IoT World Forum included a very interesting keynote address by Cisco's CEO John Chambers, as well as some exciting breakout sessions. Leading business executives shared their ideas and visions, which in turn ...
Are you in the Northern California Bay Area and want to hear about Open MPI and/or Cisco's usNIC technology next week? If so, you're in luck! I'll be speaking at Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL) next Thursday, November 7, 2013, at 2:30...
Earlier in this month the OpenStack community came out with the biannual OpenStack release -Havana. According to the OpenStack Foundation, not only did Havana add close to 400 new features across Compute (Nova), Storage (Swift), N...
This week I'm at the inaugural Internet of Things World Forum, hosted by Cisco. To give you a sense of what was discussed in just one day, I thought I'd capture some of the more interesting tweets and stats. ...
My last blog talked about the challenges of becoming an omnichannel retailer, and how stores are still learning how to make changes that cut across their entire business. We discussed how, appearances to the contrary, omnichannel ...