It's certainly true that voice isn't my favorite technology. Not that is bad or that I dislike it...it just doesn't hold my interest like routing and switching or data center or even wireless. Man I just fall all over myself on th...
Cisco Catalyst 2960-X is our greenest Catalyst access switch ever. If all similar switches shipped in 2012 were as energy efficient as Catalyst 2960-X, you would save enough energy to power every household in San Francisco for mor...
Earlier this year, Los Angeles Unified School District announced a$30 Million deal with Apple to distribute iPads to every single one of their estimated 650,000 students. This marks a milestone in public education as the first eve...
It's that time of year again-consider this post your friendly T-7 notice to start preparing for the final Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication of 2013! As a reminder, the Cisco Product Security Incident Respons...
Last month, the Internet of Things was added to Oxford Dictionaries Online. IoT was added along with such august terms as BYOD, Bitcoin, and even selfie. While the ODO isn't the OED -it's the younger, hipper sibling fo...
There is no sphere of life today that is not impacted by information and communication technology (ICT). ICT fuels innovation,efficiency, and economic growth, both in the ICT-producing and ICT-using sectors -in other words, the wh...
Next week at Oracle OpenWorld, I will be giving an abbreviated theater presentation on how Cisco UCS is changing the economics of the datacenter (full presentation below). If you will be at OOW, please stop by the Cisco booth (#10...
This past week, the Meeting of the Minds convened in Toronto, Canada with more than 375 invited CXOs debating the convergence of urban sustainability and connected technologies. During the three-day summit, a variety of smart publ...
While there is not yet an industry standard benchmark for measuring the performance of Hadoop systems (yes, there is work in progress -WBDB, BigDataTop100 etc), workloads likeTeraSorthave become a popular choice to benchmark ...
Welcome back to the final episode of Engineers Unplugged, Season 3! It's been quite a ride. This week, we take another viewpoint on the hot topic of software defined storage with Mike Slisinger (@slisinger) and Vaughn Stewart (@vs...
The slides below are from my presentation at EuroMPI'13 about Open MPI's flexible process affinity interface (in OMPI 1.7.2 and later). I described this system in a prior blog entries (one, two, three), but many people keep ...
We sat down with Victor Woo to see how the Internet of Everything is creating innovation in Canada. Victor, when we first talked, you were just settling in your new role with the Internet of Everything. Since we last spoke, is the...