I recently wrote about how we are extending Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR) and our open innovation strategy beyond Silicon Valley through local incubation partners in Chicago, San Diego and Berkeley. Our presen...
While we consumers certainly worry about security, the concerns of retailers are magnified because they are among the highest-profile targets right now for professional hacker attacks. At the same time, change is continuing on the...
The Voice of the Partner series is one of my favorite features we run on the Cisco Channels Blog. It's always interesting to see how partners are implementing our solutions. For example, in this installment I had the opportunity t...
Customers spoke. Cisco listened. And innovated. Simplicity has always been a pain point for video collaboration systems. The new DX and MX systems leverage the same interfaces and are available at price points that make video mor...
I am a consultant at a Cisco partner and I get to see a lot of different networks. Most of the networks are Cisco, but there are a few that are not. From time to time, I get network assessment projects. I love these types of proje...
Englewood Cliffs public schools system, based inBergen County, New Jersey offers classes to children from K-8 grades. The school system consists of two schools, the North Cliff school serving grades from K-2 and the Upper school s...
One of the marvelous things about community and teamwork is that it allows us to engage with people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and work together, we can create something in which the whole is gr...
(This is part 3 of a 7-part series sharing insights from Cisco partners about the Future of Cloud.) At CiscoLive!, attendees had the chance to meet with many companies offering cloud services. Dusten Tornow, Director of Infr...
Everyone loves "year in review" articles, slideshows and wraps, right? Well, I do. Cisco's fiscal year ends July 26, so I thought it would be an appropriate time to give our fiscal year in review for the Cisco Social Media team an...
In my last blog, I established reasons behind today's need for IT Transformation. We know that CIOs hope to cut their budget in half, but this will be difficult unless they understand their Enterprise Environment, as well as, the ...
Malware can find its way into the most unexpected of places. Certainly, no website can be assumed to be always completely free of malware. Typically, there are many ways that websites can be compromised to serve malware: DNS re...
"Give me the best servers you have", they said. "Give me the best computers you have", they said. "Give me more mobile devices", they said. "Give me the network required to use all these things", they (almost) never said. The ente...