This week the world celebrated the United Nations International Day for Persons with Disabilities. So let me ask you a question. What does disabled mean to you? If you say the word aloud, what comes to your mind? Wheelchairs, whit...
For many children, visiting Santa Claus, sitting on his lap, and telling him what they want for Christmas is a highlight of the holiday season. But for a sick, hospitalized child, participating in this tradition can be impossible....
With the end of the year fast approaching and the 31st Annual Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas this week, this post is dedicated to a quick reflection on emerging data center trends and their impact on securit...
Over the past year, Cisco has been increasingly vocal and active around open source solutions .One of my favorite blogger, Omar Sultan , spent a lot of time writing on the subject , starti...
The Social Innovation Summit (SIS) is a place wherereallynice people who doreallynice things come together to sharereallyimportant innovations on ways to improve society...really! As a veteran of many conferences where hierarchy a...
Has your child visited with Santa yet? Then you know the excitement of hearing that jolly laugh and the "Ho Ho Ho" that accompanies Santa's twinkling eyes. But, what about the children who are hospitalized over the hol...
It was way back at Interop in Las Vegas this year where one of our PR guys, Ben Stricker, asked if I would be interested in the tour of Petco Park coming up as part of CiscoLive in San Diego. I said 'yeah!' for a number...
Innovation is often defined as novel technological invention. What is far less known about successful innovation efforts is that it takes a special breed of individual who possesses the rare combination of technical depth and shar...
Everyday we're bombarded with seemingly unsolvable issues: healthcare crises in developing nations, struggling education systems, natural disasters that displace thousands or even millions of people. Delivered via 24-hour cable ne...
Last week, I traveled to Michigan to visit a Cisco customer. The customer was the Utica Community Schools who had recently installed a Cisco Wireless Solution including the new Aironet 2600 Access Point for all their K-12 Schools....
The first rule in improvisational comedy (I have heard) is to say "Yes, and..." to everything. How different would the current fiscal cliff debate be if improvisational comedy rules were followed? White House: "I'd like to r...
When the history of the Internet of Everything (IoE) is written, its success or failure will be determined by answering one question. How did IoEbenefit humanity? In the end, nothing else matters. With this in mind, let's look at ...