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...
This is Part 2 of our blog series about NG-Firewalls. See Part 1 here. Part 2: Enter Threat-Focused NG-Firewall What does a Threat-focused NG-Firewall do differently? Just about everything. Let's compare the most popular NGFW...
Everyone knows that data is important. Modern enterprises compete with data and win with the agility and insight it provides. Thus the "Big Data Era" as metaphorically captured by terms such at Data Lakes, Data Reservoirs, Data Sw...
I am a millennial and my entire financial life fits in my front pocket. Whether I am setting up automatic credit card payments, paying a friend back for a dinner he paid for, making my monthly rent payment, or buying the latest Wa...
Co-authored with Dani Schrakamp We're ready, are you? We are now in an age so normalized by the proliferation of technology that the United Nations has declared access to the Internet a basic human right and securing ubiquitous ac...
In case you haven't heard, 802.11ac Wave 2 is here. We've been shipping our first 802.11ac Wave 2 access points, the Aironet 1850 and 1830 since the the middle of 2015 and the list of 802.11ac Wave 2 client devices is growing almo...
This blog was originally published on the Cisco Learning Network. I'm not an engineer. I'm not technical. I didn't pursue STEM studies in university, either. So, why am I making so much noise and effort around getting more g...