I recently did a project involving several moving parts, including Splunk, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS servers, EMC XtremSF cards, ScaleIO and Isilon. The project goal was to verify the functionality and performance of EMC storage&n...
A generation ago, part of the TV viewing experience was an unstated compact that in exchange for content, viewers would be subject to a certain amount of advertising. These ads may or may not have been relevant, but viewers noneth...
Many organizations have the same challenges when it comes to security: blurring boundaries, more and more organized cybercrimes, difficulty in finding and retaining technical talent, and keeping up-to-date with the latest security...
Back in March, I wrote about Cisco's continued focus on innovation and my personal goal of accelerating innovation by making openness part of our DNA. Similarly, at the recent Cisco Live event in San Francisco, I talked about the ...
Cisco has supported the communities where its employees live and work for close to 30 years. We leverage our resources and technology to multiply individual and nonprofit efforts to improve people's lives. One area Cisco foc...
Hello, everyone! I hope you enjoyed my last blog on some of the most popular use cases for analytics in the store. I hope you are also aware of an exciting three-part series of one-hour free webcasts that Cisco is currently doing ...
According to GigaOM, the use of cloud-based resources will be what's "next" for IT in preparation for an in-depth look at the infrastructure that will drive the next decade of application development. At the recent Structure ev...
As cities and communities prepare for the future and the Internet of Everything, they must confront a tsunami of challenges that can overwhelm how people live, work, play and learn. More than half the world now lives in cities for...
Cisco customers have asked me how the Internet of Everything and the Internet of Things are going to affect their everyday life. My answer: it can be mind-boggling how interconnected sensors and devices are going to im...
In my last blog, I continued the discussion about the 24-hour bank and how banks must transition from the physical business model to the digital business model. As part of my series on the 24-hour bank, this post builds on the que...
Traditional block ciphers work on fixed blocks of data-as an example, AES is well-defined for 128/192/256 bits. But one of the issues is the need for padding-so if you need to encrypt small amounts of data you may end with a huge ...
I recently did a project involving several moving parts, including Splunk, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS servers, EMC XtremSF cards, ScaleIO and Isilon. The project goal was to verify the functionality and performance of EMC storage&n...