It's been a few months since I took on the role of Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Cisco Services. In that time, I've been inspired by the senior technical talent on our team and by the amazing ways we are helping custom...
The Cloud Scale launch in November focused on software enhancements to the industry's most widely deployed high-end network operating system, IOS XR. While those points were important and well received, I want to emphasize a few p...
Beingfastis important this time of year. X-Wing Fighters in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" are fast. Avoiding that overly excited light saber wielding fan in line requires you to be fast. Holiday shoppers are snatching up de...
Machinery, supply chains, and raw materials have always been core concerns in manufacturing. Today, another asset is just as critical - data. General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt said it well: "The industrial world is ...
Telecom Asia has recently announced the winners of their 8th Readers' Choice & Innovation Awards. For the Cisco Mobility team it was a proud moment to receive the award for "NFV Innovation of the Year" for our Virtual Packet C...
Most of us get into the holiday spirit this time of year. Time spent with friends and family, gift giving and reflecting on our many blessings creates a positive glow for the majority. But that feeling of gratitude doesn't have to...
Do the names Linda Keith and Chas Chandler ring a bell? Well, without their influence, we may have never heard of Jim Hendrix. In May 1966, Keith ran into the then-obscure Hendrix playing at the Cheetah club in New York. "He...
Over the past few years of being immersed in the Internet of Things (IoT), I have found that customers have very specific problems they are trying to solve; e.g. gaining energy efficiency, early fault detection or remote diagnosis...
In Part 1 of this blog post, I described the circumstances that led to the creation and roll out of the Career Connection pilot and the formation of the Cisco Collaborative Knowledge digital workplace platform. Now I want to share...
Announced today, TPC-DS V2 is the Industry's first standard for benchmarking SQL based big data systems. Over the last two years, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), has reinvented itself in several ways -with ne...
The post was authored byBen BakerandEarl Carter. Payment cards without an EMV chip have reached their end-of-life. Point of Sale (PoS) malware, such asPoSeidon, has continued to threaten businesses. The news is continually filled ...
I just recently returned from the Internet of Things World Forum (IoTWF) in Dubai. This was the third annual IoTWF, which has quickly become the premiere event showcasing innovations and opportunities made possible by the Internet...