The great (relatively) untapped kingdom of 'indoor wireless' may be the next great frontier? With expectations of WiFi connectivity for just about any business we visit these days, there is no reason this next step for making t...
Add this to your list of parties spoilt by the Internet revolution: national sovereignty. We all know that the borderless nature of the Internet is stretching longstanding technical and legal definitions. But recently, my colleagu...
On the eve of Microsoft's first Lync User Conference, I think it's a great time to start a frank anddirect conversation about what's changed in collaboration and, because of those changes, what's really important for IT decision m...
In a recent interview, the Director of IT Operations at a New York based Enterprise said that one of the biggest problems he was facing was maintaining customer satisfaction on performance as the data deluge grew unabated. A...
Service Financial Management is the focus of Domain 6 in Cisco Services' DomainTenSMModel for Data Center and Cloud Transformation. Closely related to the User Portal (Domain 4) and Service Catalog and Management (Domain 5), ...
Videos!Videos!Videos!Videos!Videos!Videos!Videos!Videos!Videos!Videos!Videos!Videos! Up first was Mark Denny and Brian Hart with an update on 802.11ac at Cisco. Next was Jeevan Patil on the Wireless Controller 5760 and Con...
TechWiseTV Video Collaboration InfrasturctureWe do a lot of shows about video of course. It's always a challenge I think when it comes to defining what the unique value of a given story needs to be. In this case, we we...
TCP? Who cares about TCP in HPC? More and more people, actually. With the commoditization of HPC, lots of newbie HPC users are intimidated by special, one-off, traditional HPC types of networks and opt for the simplici...
Fabric-Based Infrastructure and Cisco UCS A good segue to Fabric-Based Infrastructure is Gartner'sMagic Quadrant for Blade Servers(March 2012), by Andrew Butler and George Weiss. To fully understand the tie in with Fabric-Ba...
So this is the Million Dollar Question, right? You, along with the executives sponsoring your particular VDI project wanna know: How many desktops can I run on that blade? It's funny how such an "it depends" question becomes a ben...
By Leszek Izdebski, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) The past few years have brought sweeping transformation to television-a trend that will only accelerate in the coming decade. Following up on a 2011 study on the f...
Not One-size-fits-all In the world of fashion, one-size-fits all has very limited appeal. People come in all shapes and sizes, with tastes, preferences, and needs that are equally diverse. So too are the diverse approaches and use...