The so-called "data deluge" shows no signs of abating anytime soon. Facebook, for example, has more than 2.5 billion pieces of content and ingests more than 500 terabytes of new content daily. Mobile devices are driving this...
Frustrated. That's how Wharton School of Business Professor Karl Ulrich feels when he cannot engage with students enrolled in the prestigious University of Pennsylvania's remote campus in San Francisco. Given how many hats members...
Our hospitality team and MGM Resorts are collaborating again this week at the HTNG North American Conference to discuss key trends in the industry and how Wi-Fi is changing the guest experience. Remember Bob's Big Ideas Sessi...
Have you been doing your Twitter homework? Educators are using social media to share their lesson plans and get new ideas. If your favorite teacher is not already doing this, help them set up their Twitter account: descripti...
There's a great sketch that Louis CK does about our impatience with technology and how much we've come to take it for granted. Our ability to connect from anywhere has raised our expectations for being able to instantly get or do ...
I often find myself with colleagues and friends having an app discussion that at times feels like an exciting discovery session and other times feels like an "app showdown". It's either a case of "Wow, that's cool", or "My apps ar...
Salem Health is a network of hospitals, rehab facilities, and physician clinics located in the Pacific Northwest. The organization was experiencing major performance issues with their IT infrastructure, which was hurting business ...
Our Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data has been gaining momentum as a viable platform for enterprise big data deployments. The newest addition to the portfolio is EMC's new Pivotal HD? that natively integrates Gr...
Over the past 2 months or so, I've been blogging on Cisco Domain TenSM, Cisco Service's framework to guide you on your path to data center and cloud transformation. We are just over half way through the discussion on Cisco D...
This six-part series focuses on transformation of the traditional higher education system in the United States. This part focuses on the fact that universities are more similar than they are different. Universities in ...
In the first few posts in this series, we have hopefully shown that not all cores are created equal and that not all GHz are created equal. This generates challenges when comparing two CPUs within a processor family and even great...
In case you missed it, Network World's Ellen Messmer published a rather surprising article on how Dell was going to "trump" Cisco in the information security market as a result of some recent acquisitions. Now certainly Dell is en...