Last month, I got to attend MeriTalk's fifth annual Cloud Computing Brainstorm at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. It was a great event that gathered more than 200 cloud thought leaders from both industry and government for a discu...
Segment routing is coming to a competitor near you and it will be a key element of the network infrastructure of the future. But what is it and how will it offer tangible benefits for you, the service provider? It promises to simp...
I often meet with customers about the first and easiest way to use IoT in an industrial domain: by deploying wireless technology. There is a lot of variety of Radio Frequency (RF) technologies being used in the industrial domain r...
The best way to succeed is to identify how to fail, then adapt accordingly. So, here's how to lose: Focus on technology, not psychology. 2. Think that cyber security is an IT-only problem. 3. Believe that an air gap will save y...
The workforce is aging and many organizations are having trouble recruiting younger talent. By the year 2025, Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce. Creating a familiar and engaging work environment is critical in attracti...
IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) are new to the financial services vocabulary. They stand to dominate the discussions around the digital evolution. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A or BBVA ha...
With all that has been written and said about data preparation, you are probably convinced your enterprise is ready to take advantage of its ability to rapidly transform inconsistent, incomplete, and inaccurate data into the clean...
Having spent most of my career in product marketing, and having participated in Gartner Magic Quadrant evaluations across multiple technology categories, I can tell you that these things are a lot of work. You might think that Gar...
An issue I can relate to -the lack of women in cybersecurity. While women represented 25% of computing professionals in 2015, they only represented 10% of the information security professions. Cisco gives us time to volunteer to m...
We had a busy week around the middle of July with ChefConf 2016 (Austin, Texas July 11 -13) and Cisco Live US (Las Vegas, Nevada July 10 -14). Now we're moving on to AnsibleFest July 28 San Francisco where Cisco is a Gold sponsor ...
The threat environment faced by organization deploying branch networks continues to evolve. It's time for a disruptive approach to handling network security across many distributed branch sites. Automation is becoming a requiremen...
Blending the old with the new is evident in the city of Boston. Marked with a cobblestone path, The Freedom Trail takes you on a journey through our nation's rich history of more than 250 years -from the Old State House where...