Service is the key differentiator for hospitality -service that is driven by your guests' needs. This is made possible by today's ability to digitize information across the network, which is changing how the industry does business...
I live in the Hill Country outside Austin where one of our local storytellers, Shake Russell, wrotea song for the Texas sesquicentennial in which he proclaims, "Cotton is King." He subsequently amends it to say, "Cattle is King," ...
Next week I will be attending the Red Hat Summit 2016 in San Francisco, along with a number of my Cisco colleagues. I am looking forward to discussing with attendees and Cisco partners the latest cloud trends and specifically...
What is the cost for one hour of downtime in today's digital world? Can a value be placed on applications or data that can't be recovered after an outage, or needs to be restored from days (or weeks) prior? Before the advent of cl...
Airbnb, a key player in the new sharing economy, has recently established the role of Chief Employee Experience Officer who oversees the company's "workplace as an experience?"-and they've even trademarked it-who carefully orchest...
Today the International Trade Commission issued a Final Determination that Arista's products infringe three Cisco patents. Two of the patents cover Cisco's private VLAN network security technology whi...
In order to be more responsive in a highly competitive marketplace, organizations are transforming to support the 21st century needs by being more agile and efficient in delivering centralized applications and services to a geogra...
Each week, the Cisco Government team is posting a #TransformationThursday blog where they will discuss digital transformation in cities, detailing storylines and examples with various social, environmental and economic o...
It's an exciting time in the world of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Whether you're a utility looking to view your customer landscape to fix issues or analyze power consumption, or a manufacturer like Cisco looking to gain ...
If you're like me, you don't like to mix things. The components for my home theater are the same. My tablet, cell phone and laptop all run the same OS. I don't even like Neapolitan ice cream. Some might think I'm boring, but I pr...
In a world of roboadvisors, mobile payment apps, and automated processes, do people still matter in banking? I believe the answer is a resounding "Yes!" In fact, as agile, online "fintechs" continue to challenge retail banks, I se...
When you start an internship, or really anything new, it's a little weird. Add to the mix that Cisco is full of incredible minds who are moving at a lightening pace, and it may be slightly earth-shattering to come to the re...