We all have things we love and hate about our job. Sometimes it's silly process stuff like TPS reports...but many times the good far out weight the bad. Just like picking out who to go out fishing with. Folks are gonna get on your...
I'd like to welcome you to my new Global Partner Marketing (GPM) blog series. As vice president of Cisco's GPM organization, I'm excited about our broad partner ecosystem and the goals we can accomplish together. This new blog wil...
Following my previous blog post about identity and device aware IT platforms making IT operations easier and more effective, I wanted to delve a little deeper into a specific element of the IT infrastructure: Security Event & ...
As you may have heard, Cisco is hosting the inaugural Internet of Things World Forum, October 29-31 in Barcelona. The goal of the IoT World Forum is to gather the bestandbrightest thinkers, doers, and innovators from busines...
On September 10th, 2013 Cisco introduced support for the Intel? Xeon? Processor E5-2600 v2 product family on the Cisco UCS B200 M3, C240 M3, and C220 M3 servers. On the same day as the Intel announcement Cisco captured ...
It's a beautiful thing when you can hijack four not-quite random people off the VMworld show floor and get them to tackle a discussion on desktop virtualization. And that's exactly what we did a couple weeks back, when the o...
Ivy Bridge comes to UCS! As Paul Perez reminds us in his evolutionary metaphor for our industry, time marches on, and today brings another tick of the clock. Many of you may be familiar with the development cadence that Intel main...
Detours is a library offered by Microsoft Research for interception of functions on x86 and x64 platforms. It is sold for commercial use to various vendors that build products ranging from security to gaming applications. Detours ...
Microsensors in your shoes compile data on where you go and how much you walk or run. Your workout clothes track your daily progress at the gym and tell you when to slow down or speed up. The pill you swallow reports back on the s...
Our first SecureDC twitter chat created some great industry dialog around security for Software Defined Networks (SDN) as well as using SDN to improve security. SDN is going through a similar hype cycle as seen with cloud and we f...
Like most industries, security has gone through many different evolutions. Over the past 20 years, the industry has been largely product focused, with customers deploying point products across the network in an effort to "cover" a...
I have heard this a lot over the years, in one way or another -"The only price that really counts is what I actually pay for my server." Alright, so why bother with a TCO analysis? The truth is that server acquisition c...