On June 20th, Cisco and MapR will join with Forrester Research Big Data analyst Mike Gualtieri to discuss "productionizing" Hadoop. But what does it mean? Mike has developed a list of 7 architectural best practices that will help ...
Welcome back! Season 3 of Engineers Unplugged starts now. The premiere episode features Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Giles Sirett (@shapeblue) discussing the evolution from traditional tocloud workloads.What are the costs, th...
For one week this last March,hundreds of thousands of workers from around the world made the commitment to telework. This year's Telework Week resulted in a 91 percent increase in involvement in 2011, with more than 130,000 total ...
One noted economist believes "the real impact of the electronic revolutions has already occurred." We could not disagree more. With over 2B more people and 37B more things planning to join the Internet by 2020, our economic ...
Are you thinking about the evolving threat landscape? You should be. Each day, new vulnerabilities are found and new exploits are crafted. Attackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated, while industry trends such as cloud comp...
Like many of you I have spent the past week or so getting caught up with work and office goings on after a very successful and informative Microsoft Tech Ed North America 2013 event in New Orleans. At Cisco, our Microsoft team is...
Over a decade ago, I started thinking about what life would be like with connected cars. Erratic drivers, speeding tickets and unfavorable weather could be avoided while driving. I read an article recently that takes a more in-dep...
In the fast-changing, thin-margin world of consumer products, new winners and losers are created every day. Speed of innovation, time-to-market, and employee productivity can mean the difference between the next hot trend and a wa...
The promise of the Internet of Everything (IoE) looms near, and as the networked connections between people, process, data and things exponentially increase, the opportunity for private industry sits at$14.4 trillion USD. An...
Are you using or evaluating Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft System Center 2012 to deliver higher performance and scale for your workloads? If so, then take advantage of an upcoming joint Cisco / Microsoft webinar to learn how th...
Wi-Fi networks seem to now be everywhere. Once primarily confined to the home or office, we now expect Wi-Fi access in coffee shops, hotels, airports, stores and even in sport stadiums. Not only are these Wi-Fi network...
In an ongoing blog series on Cisco Application Visibility and Control and our outstanding partners, we learned how to maximize service provider revenues by detecting and applying QoS to over 1400 applications, cure Grumpy old...