In an age where we routinely view content on our STBs, laptops and handheld devices, service providers are revisiting a fundamental issue -how to define their subscriber base. For decades, subscribers have been associated with the...
Throughout my recent meetings with Service Provider customers at Cisco Live Milan and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, there were two recurring themes throughout my meetings (and there were a lot of them as my peers and I hoste...
In 2011, Cisco's Chief Information Officer Rebecca Jacoby established CITEIS, a 'private cloud' designed to more quickly, more flexibly and more cost-effectively give our employees the I.T. resources they need to do their jobs. CI...
For a number of years Intercloud has been a term known only in the academic world and amongst few industry experts.The Intercloud is a"cloud of clouds" and the Wikipedia description perfectly outlines the reason why Intercloud is ...
The market is moving fast and the pace of change is dramatic. The days of partners launching new services into the market every 6-12 months are gone. Customers are expecting new applications almost daily that will allow them to de...
Source: CDC Fluview 2013-2014 Influenza Season Week 11 ending March 15, 2014I was thinking the seasonal flu for the year was almost over, and then last week, I get flu. While looking at the CDS fluview, it continues to report a do...
Last week I had the opportunity to attend theAFCEA Homeland Security conferenceinWashington, D.C. Eleven days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the first Director of theOffice of Homeland Security was appointedleadi...
A consequence of the Moore Nielsen prediction is the phenomenon known as Data Gravity: big data is hard to move around, much easier for the smaller applications to come to it. Consider this: it took mankind over 2000 years to prod...
A couple of months ago I designed a Cisco Unified Wireless Network for an enterprise company. One of the big challenges was the ability to serve wireless guest services in the branch offices, which are connected to the headquarter...
Innovation. Change. Market transitions. This is the natural order when it comes to IT. Today's accelerated rate of technological change is disrupting all areas of IT, while at the same time creating new possibili...
After a metric ton of work by the entire community, Open MPI has released version 1.7.5. Among the zillions of minor updates and new enhancements are two major new features: MPI-3.0 conformance OpenSHMEM support (Linux only) S...
At CES this year we announced the expansion of Videoscape to the cloud. By launching Videoscape Cloud Software and Videoscape Cloud Services, we are empowering our customers with flexibility and agility to provision and scale infr...