Visitors to the Cisco boothat this year's IBC will no doubt be curious to see our new Open UX Snowflake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IdZl31B69w Snowflake, the Videoscape Unity flagship UI, is now offered on HTML5, powered wit...
The Internet of Everything is delivering profound changes to the world. By 2017 there will be more than 19 billion networked devices globally -bringing a deluge of data on today's IT environments. Against this backdrop, we are wit...
In the previous article we looked at some of the physical characteristics of building a SAN extension. In other words, we looked at the different ways there are to "build the pipe." We didn't, however, get the chance to talk about...
By Tony Shakib, Vice President of IoT Vertical Business, Cisco I've been in IT for a long time and I often hear that data is worth its weight in gold. Well, I recently spoke with Canadian-based Dundee Mi...
Image credit: imediaconnection.comIn an earlier blog, I discussed the incredible success behind the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Since I wrote that blog three months ago, we've contin...
On August 15, 2013, Brian Krebs featured a screen shot of a fake Outlook webmail login page used by the Syrian Electronic Army in a phishing attack against the Washington Post. If you look carefully at the location bar, you will n...
In the last article, we looked at the big picture of what is involved in creating a SAN distance extension. In this article, we're going to take a slightly closer look at the physical requirements and with luck we'll be able to cl...
The software defined network has become all the rage lately for reasons that seem to vary and are caught up in interesting perceptions. One view was that it allowed a single network to be controlled centrally and divided up ...
Have you ever felt like measuring social media was like a trying to crack a secret code? Sometimes it's difficult to figure out what data is important to measure out of all the information we are receiving. September 26th Let's C...
A long time ago I got asked to write about how to use Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) for distance. After all, we were getting the same question over and over: What is the distance limitation for FCoE? Now, theshortanswer fo...
One critical factor to stay ahead in today's dynamic and competitive video market is the agility to deploy new services and hardware fast. But what do service providers really need in order to be agile? An open client software is ...
#GameChanger is the one word we used to describe the new branch router: ISR 4451-X. We said it was designed from the ground up with rich services and application delivery in mind. How did we do that? Two words: S...