Having worked in Sales for more than 18 years, I have learned that all sales professionals have a common need for recognition and motivation. Only about 5-20 % of sales people are, "intrinsically motivated" meaning int...
When people think of the Dutch capital of Amsterdam, they often think of bicycles, canals and progressive social values. Some may even know about its leadership in international trade, catalyzed centuries ago by the Dutch East Ind...
We're generating digital information at an exponential rate. It's coming from more devices that are more connected than everandgetting smarter all the time. In 2013, global mobile data traffic stood at 1.5 exabytes per month ...
The median rate of web malware encounters in March 2014 was 1:260, compared to a median rate of 1:341 requests in February. At least some of this increased risk appears to have been a result of interest in the NCAA tournaments (ak...
This week, Cisco is hosting over 70 companies and organizations for a second annual in-person Steering Committee meeting to plan the second Internet of Things World Forum (IoTWF). The goal of the Steering Committ...
In this week's episode, Nathan Sowatskey and Jacoby Thwaites discuss transactions, applications, and the network: how to reduce complexity and increase compliance by changing the transaction process. "Be careful of the unicorn." ...
What does manufacturing mean to America? While there may be no quantitative right answer to that question, in my opinion, manufacturing is the creation of new jobs, the empowering of individuals, and teamwork that helps make dream...
A subject very close to my heart at the moment is what skills I will need to have in order to support the Next Generation of Software Defined and Application Centric networks. It is of no surprise that Networking like most other t...
In previous blogs I have described how organizations are maturing beyond provisioning of individual servers to provisioning of richer cloud-based application stacks. Known as platform-as-a-service (PaaS), this capability tak...
Last night , at midnight PST , Microsoft ended support for Windows XP.While 12 years may seem an appropriate length of time to support a software product in today's fast-changing world, this decision will have a major impact on th...
In my last blog I talked about the value of Pfr to the IWAN solution. This week I wanted to talk about DMVPN and why it is going to be a critical component of your IWAN deployment. Your IWAN topology will most likely consist of on...
*** UPDATED 15-April 2014 *** By now, almost everyone has heard of the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability with CVE id CVE-2014-0160. The vulnerability has to do with the implementation of the TLS heartbeat extension (RFC6520) ...