Virtualizing Oracle Databases -The Time Has Come! Overall, virtualization of IT applications and databases is quite pervasive. Estimates from industry analysts show that some applications and databases have virtualization pe...
The open source community converged in Boston this week for the Red Hat Summit. A key theme for this year's event was OpenStack. Cisco presence included an executive keynote, speaking session, and demonstrations of our product and...
Join me and my good friends Dan Frye and Jim Zemlin, Tuesday June 18that 8:30 am Pacific, in a webcast as we discuss open source, networking, communities and projects, the opportunities entailed, the win-win-win model (or win-cube...
How can you get your data center off to a smooth start? At the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit this week, I presented three data center innovations that hold the key to accelerating business securely. Ease of prov...
Witnessing the advent and momentum of Open Source into the broader enterprise, and "the mainstream" Data Center, has been incredible. Many will look back and recall a time when Open Source was met first with a look of confus...
Paralympics GBIt's 5:30am on Monday morning (10th June 2013 to be precise). " Wake up it's a beautiful morning" by the Boo Radleys is blasting out of the speakers at the camp site. "I shouldn't ...
The U.S. National STEM Solutions Conference is just around the cornerandthe Cisco CSR team will be among the more than 2,000 business, education, and government leaders from around the United States in attendance at the Austin Con...
While the topic of Open Source is not new, the topic of using open source in today's networks has gained momentum in recent times, which, not surprisingly, coincides with the broader conversation of open networking...
Last week we notified the five winners of our inaugural VNI Service Awards competition. When we launched this program on March 26, 2013 our goal was to inspire others about the human aspect of what it means to be connected. ...
The Intelligent Community Forum just completed its annual summit, which celebrates the Top 7 most intelligent communities in the world. These are the global leaders who have already made investments in broadband and in...
Today's applications are either virtualized in our own data center or being hosted by any number of providers. But is our security built around our current security reality or is it living in the past? During one of my Gartner Sec...
Hot on the heels of a hopping Citrix Synergy two weeks ago, Citrix just broadcast on June 11, a fascinating discussion between senior Citrix, NetApp and Cisco executives on the incremental benefits IT departments are recognizing b...