Today is International Girls in ICT Day and Cisco has been celebrating all month long by hosting fun and instructive mentoring events that have been designed to help to educate young women about careers in information and communic...
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists, hosted by Cisco's Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week we're talking about Cisco TACOPS (@CiscoTACOPS) which connects the unconnected in the middle of cri...
It is with great pleasure I introduce you to another industry and technology thought-leader from Cisco, Clara Alvarado. Clara Alvarado is Cisco's Solutions Marketing Manager for Applications Enablement and Management portfolio for...
In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged, Colin Lynch (@UCSGuru) and Giuseppe Paterno (@gpaterno) discuss Nexus 1000V running on OpenStack and the options this creates for the network engineer. It's all about faster deploymen...
Over the past year, we saw the idea of software-defined networking (SDN) become an integral part of IT conversations globally. As this technology evolves, the term "network programmability" can be used to capture the idea of openi...
Guess what? Convergence is happening again, and it's happening at a faster pace with more profound implications than I have never seen before. Those of us who've been in the industry a long time have seen convergence happen ove...
In a previous article I talked about my thermostat and the Internet of Everything [read here] I questioned the true value my smart meter was providing to my home and my wallet. I said what's missing is a thermostat that helps me u...
In the last blog on revenue generation marketing, I took some time to discuss how our operational implementation was working at Cisco. As part of that, I shared the four main best practices we discovered during our revenue generat...
Cisco Live 2014 is fast approaching in few weeks from now.This is an important year for Cisco Live as well as Fibre Channel (FC) along with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) family of products. For Cisco Live : it is celebrating ...
Note: The full report can be found here as well as chapter 1.2, "The Internet of Everything: How the Network Unleashes the Benefits of Big Data" The World Economic Forum launched the 2014 Global Information Technology Report (GIT...
Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) networks have historically been completely separate, with users of each living in blissful isolation. But the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing all of that! In the IoT...
When I was in grade school, my best friend had a favorite saying whenever he disagreed with somebody's observation that two things were really similar. "It's the same, only different," he would quip. Though this phrase was mostly ...