The 2017 Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecasts that there will be about 25 million 5G capable devices and connections by 2021, which will generate 8.9 exabytes (EB) of annual mobile data traffic. Let's compare that ...
Cloud.The teenager's internet.The celebrity's nightmare.The IT salesperson's most favorite or most hated word, depending on where you work.The Cristiano Ronaldo of IT. (true reaction of CEO after reading memo from CIO on Cloud) W...
A friendandcolleague suggested an awesome book to me last week calledWinning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Flaws of Thinking.Although the book focuses on limitations in our thought process, I could see how these same flaws are perf...
The City of Schenectady, with a population of just over 66,000, has bold vision for growth. Schenectady's leadership wanted to address its growing challenges, such as increasing traffic, resource constraints, safety concerns and i...
As Gartner puts it "The journey to digital business is a team sport." The days when people worked heads-down in cubes by themselves is quickly giving way to a more interactive business world. Teamwork is more relevant -and prevale...
Responding to security threats requires time, talent and money - resources that most security professionals would agree are in seemingly short supply. As discussed in the Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report (ACR), security team...
We are in the midst of a historic transition in education, in which we are providing more options and flexibility in creating learning cultures that significantly raise the expectations of what our students can accomplish. We now ...
Done carelessly, network virtualisation can have the opposite effect to what's intended. Considering the network as a whole makes it possible to provide agile services while retaining carrier class reliability Networking is changi...
Everyone these days seems to want to operate like the massive scale data center operators or at least capitalize on the economies of scale they created in their wake. It's a familiar trickle-down economics idea that sounds great o...
Next week, some 30,000 security professionals will descend upon the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the 2017 RSA Conference. Cisco's AMP Threat Grid, the first unified Malware Analysis and Threat Intelligence solution, partner...
We previously discussed how data models have become a key component of network programmability and the role they play in cloud-scale networking. Data models provide a clear representation of the capabilities of a networking device...
Retailers are embracing and adapting to digital innovations to keep pace with rapidly-evolving customer demands. Online and mobile purchases continue to increase exponentially. According to Deloitte, 58% of consumers have used the...