Huge amounts of information are flooding companies every second, which has led to an increased focus on big data and the ability to capture and analyze this sea of information. Enterprises are turning to big data and Apache Hadoop...
In my previous blog I introduced the series with the idea that financial services firms are now being expected to operate and be "Open 24 Hours." Underlying this is the transition from the physical business model to the digital bu...
By beginning consideration of patent reform legislation, the Senate Judiciary Committee today took a significant step toward ending the abusive patent assertion entity business model. Yet, there is still a great deal of hard...
Cisco's announcement on Cisco Cloud Services "Introducing Cisco's Global Intercloud" is the next step in our transformation towards being an end-to-end cloud platform and software function solutions vendor. This announcement...
In 1984, John Gage of Sun Microsystems coined the phrase "the network is the computer" as computing functions started to become increasingly distributed across the network. Today, boundaries that once separated individual computer...
Many IT organizations use Microsoft PowerShell to automate and accelerate data center management tasks. The Cisco UCS PowerTool module for PowerShell provides users a comprehensive list of cmdlets to manage all components of Cisco...
When you have a regular paycheck, a roof over your head, your health, and a fully stocked refrigerator, it's easy to focus on other activities of daily living. But when you lack one or all of these things, your focus is on survivi...
I love this image -Cisco's take on a bracket, like the ones so many of us filled out recently. It taps into the fact that the appetite of sports fans is almost insatiable with the buffet of content available to them, and that a n...
At a recent event I saw a T-shirt that said "Remember when cloud only meant rain?" In the days before cloud computing, asking someone what they thought about cloud usually invoked a response about an animal-shaped formation ...
Many of the existing switch and wireless infrastructures that were deployed 5 or more years ago were not designed for BYOD, pervasive mobility, advanced security, SDN and more. Let us look at these trends and the benefits of upgra...
During this year's Embedded Linux Conference in San Jose I will be presenting An Introduction to the Video4Linux Framework. As a long-term kernel contributor (since 2003), author of over 2000 kernel patches and co-maintainer of th...
As SAP says, the trends reshaping your world will ultimately transform the way you do business. Today, Cisco and SAP join together to deliver their visions for the Internet of Things (IoT)at SAP's signature conference in New ...