Guest blog by Philippe Couturaud, Cisco Business Development Manager, EMEAR Utilities: This week you have the opportunity of meeting up with Cisco at the European Utility Week event in Austria. Cisco has become synonymous wi...
Today, most employees access public cloud solutions by bypassing IT. This is concerning for CIOs/CEOs given that it puts their organizations at substantial risk for data security and compliance challenges. But, what if it isn't ac...
Guest Blog by Alison O'Brien, Product & Solutions Marketing Manager Small Carriers and the NMS/EMS Small carriers and rural local exchange carriers (RLECs) often forgo Network Management Systems/Element Management Systems (NMS...
An often overused yarn of our day is that "we live in an increasingly more connected world." While overused, I can't think of any better way to describe what Cisco is doing in our security ecosystem with Cisco Platform Exchange Gr...
Availability is essential to smooth business operation. Many organizations think of availability in terms of network access. After all, if you can't access your servers, you can't do business. Availability in this sense is measure...
Today's storage area networks (SANs) face tremendous pressure from the phenomenal growth of digital information and the need to access it quickly and efficiently. Worldwide data is projected to multiply by an astonishing 1000 perc...
Mark Watney is "The Martian", in case you haven't heard. In the movie, he's a Botanist stranded on Mars. But in the book, he's first a mechanical engineer, and a botanist as his second skillset. It's hard to if he's an engineer-bo...
Model of Guardian Centers training facilityEmergency readiness is one of the most frequently practiced and probably one of the least frequently exercised drills. However, when it counts on saving human lives, it really counts. One...
In a recent post, "Evolution of attacks on Cisco IOS devices", we discussed how threats against network devices have evolved. There was no evidence that a remote attack vector or vulnerability in Cisco IOS was related to these att...
Location, Location, Location. While location is always important in real estate (never more of an understatement than here in the San Francisco Bay Area), it's becoming crucial in, well, LIFE itself. November 3-4 | Palo Alto, CA|...
One of the biggest issues state governments face in their day-to-day governing is the sheer size of the state itself. Even in average sized states, it can take quite some time to get from place to another, and it's particularly bu...
When we launched UCS Mini, it pushed us into new territory with an exciting offering that bundles servers, storage and networking into a single solution - much like the traditional UCS - but in a smaller form factor and lowered th...