Mary Ann AzevedoGuest Blog by Mary Ann Azevedo: Mary Ann Azevedo is an award-winning journalist based in Silicon Valley. She has covered business and technology issues for Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, the San Fr...
From the outset, Cisco Unified Fabric has been ahead of the curve and ahead of the market in its innovation and the value that it brings to Cisco customers. Its introduction brought about a profound shift to data center fabric: un...
The phrase of the week "Beat the Heat." Boy is it hot in the Bay Area where Cisco's headquarters are located. So what are many people doing to cool down? Heading to their local ice cream shop of course. Now you're probably wonderi...
Last week, Cisco Live in Orlando gave me the opportunity to discuss the future of technology with a broad cross-section of business leaders and self-professed "geeks"-both in person and via social media. In my keynote on Tuesday, ...
An Increasing amount of organizations continue to shift their view of IT infrastructure as being a cost center to an enabler of business growth. Hence, businesses are looking for infrastructure that can deliver agility and availab...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Omnibus Final Rule, released January 2013, introduced some significant changes and updates. At the same time, over 100 HIPAA audits concluded in 2012. The Off...
We're just a week away from Microsoft's annual partner soiree -Worldwide Partner Conference 2013 (WPC) -where ~16,000 channel partners from around the world will converge in Houston to learn about all things Windows Server, SQL Se...
As part of Cisco Live! last week, Cisco hosted a Connected Mobile Experiences Dinner last night with senior executives of some of our customers and partners in Shula's Steak house at the Walt Disney Swan and Dolphi...
Continuing the thread from the last blog where I discussed the first HIPAA network consideration, 'HIPAA Audits will continue', in this blog I'll discuss the second network consideration on the list below. Remember, The HIPA...
This blog was written with Jess Wells and originally appeared on the Executive Symposium at Cisco Live! As the Cisco Executive Symposium, IT Management Program, and Cisco Live open their doors, I'm reminded that it takes a village...
For the last four or five years, I've watched as the Idaho Education Network (IEN) has implemented and reaped the benefits from their distance education program and use of video conferencing, or telepresence. To this day, they con...
Virtacore, a leading cloud services provider, aims to help clients shift to the cloud. But the company was aware that in order to help others, it first needed to help itself-which meant updating its own infrastructure to provide t...