Welcome back to Engineers Unplugged. Today, we talk Big Data with Matthew Brender (@mjbrender EMC) and Hans De Leenheer (@hansdeleenheer Veeam). It's not just a lot of data, it's what you can do with it. For real world examples, a...
In today's digital world, communication platforms matter. In a recent Cisco Government blog post we looked at how antiquated communication systems hold back government agencies. The same holds true for educational institutions. Le...
Communication is key, yet too many government agencies voice platforms are living in archaic times. As government agencies are turning to collaboration technologies like voice, video and mobility to increase efficiency and lower c...
Over the past five years, the adoption of small cells has increased dramatically. At Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year the Small Cell Forum announced that we have now crossed the threshold where there are more small cells depl...
I'm sure this has never happened to you. You choose a web security appliance based on user count and expected traffic profiles. Then marketing rolls out a successful video campaign that goes viral and your users complain about slo...
At the OpenStack Summit 2013, Red Hat announced RDO, a freely available, community-supported distribution of OpenStack. OpenStack is an open source cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networki...
Increase Profits by Making it Easy to Follow the Money Hundreds of cloud service providers around the world are seeing businesses connect into their clouds in increasing numbers. You might think this goes into the category of a "g...
By Greg Smith, Service Provider Marketing Manager, Cisco OK, so the title of this article isn't totally accurate. Cisco's 100G DWDM solution won't work over barbed wire, or Cat-5 cable, or cotton string, but it will work on over 9...
I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural signing of National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnership agreements yesterday. Key stakeholders in attendance included National Security Agency Director, General Keith Alexander, Senat...
The Johnson City School District transformed its students' learning experiences, teachers' teaching experiences, and parents' academic insights with BYOD applications, allowing them the freedom to learn and connect anywhere, anyti...
We first talked about the Mapping of Address and Port (MAP) method to handle IPv4 exhaust and the transition to IPv6 last week. MAP is based on two IETF drafts currently in the process of standardization indraft-ietf-softwire-map(...
Security is a tough nut that can't be cracked by one alone-neither technology nor research, neither corporations nor start-ups, and neither products nor processes. None of these alone can crack the security nut. The most important...