Cisco's Advanced Services has been performing penetration tests for our customers since the acquisition of the Wheel Group in 1998. We call them Security Posture Assessments, or SPA for short, and I've been pen testing for just ab...
Gartner has released their 2013 Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure Magic Quadrant. For the 2ndtime in a row, Cisco is recognized as a leader in this highly anticipated publication. Without further ado, here is the 20...
At some point, every data center has to migrate a complete server identity between two servers. This could be driven by maintenance needs, server upgrades or DR/HA and SLA requirements. For DR/HA, Business Continuity r...
The growth of the Internet is resulting in a wave of new online tools that allow for increasingly more interactions between people,process,data, and things.For many years Cisco has used the power of the Internet to make a positive...
Every Friday, we'll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories of the week, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here's what you might have missed th...
When I think about what we've done recently to improve our customers' experience with Cisco, the Cisco Support Website immediately jumps to mind. The web team actively consults customers and seeks new ways to improve the...
Our latest episode is out! This one is all about the Contact Center and we spent a lot more time showing examples of Social Media integration. Everyone agrees that 'the internets' are a huge watering hole of opinions a...
Technology moves very quickly and it is often difficult to keep up with new product announcements that are introduced in rapid succession. It is often necessary to take a step back and refresh our memory regarding how a solution i...
This is the sixth post in a blog series featuring Vine-format videos focusing on the"Six Essential Steps for Unleashing the Power of Enterprise Mobility".The first blog post discussing how to build a mobile structure can be foundh...
Miscreants are always trying to put new twists on age-old schemes. However, I must admit that this latest twist has me slightly puzzled. Today, Cisco TRAC encountered a piece of stock related spam touting Apple's stock, AAPL. Un...
Fast changing business conditions require agility, a difficult challenge in your distributed on-premises, big data and cloud environments. Data virtualization makes it easy for you to access your data, no matter where it resides. ...
While there is not yet an industry standard benchmark for measuring the performance of Hadoop systems (yes, there is work in progress -WBDB, BigDataTop100 etc), workloads likeTeraSorthave become a popular choice to benchmark ...