At Cisco's inaugural Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Barcelona this week, I spoke about how IoT is impacting multiple industries and public sector creating tremendous business value for companies, cities and governments ar...
Stop-think-connect is not only for kids. Everyone, including nerds like me and network and security professionals, should pay more attention before connecting any device to the Internet. Routers (wireless and wired), industrial co...
By now you've probably heard quite a bit about the newest generation of Wi-Fi, 802.11ac. I'll save you the gory details, just know it's about 3x faster than 802.11n and will help to improve the capacity of your network. Jame...
Earlier in this month the OpenStack community came out with the biannual OpenStack release -Havana. According to the OpenStack Foundation, not only did Havana add close to 400 new features across Compute (Nova), Storage (Swift), N...
The first time I met Jim Barton (DVR pioneer and TiVo co-founder) I was a young man looking at the hottest company in Silicon Valley in the day: SGI, the place where Michael Jackson and Steven Spielberg just arrived to visit, the ...
"Community policing is central to the success of the police mission." ...
This marks the 32nd year I've worked in healthcare. It doesn't seem like very long ago that I worked as a registered nurse, caring for critically ill patients. Although I'm no longer working at a patient's bedside, today's healthc...
We're here at the Internet of Things World Forum with over 800 delegates in a very wet Barcelona. This morning, Chris Yapp eloquently introduced the uses and potential uses for IoT in education and Jane Alexander blew us away with...
Back on September 10th,Cisco announced the intent to acquire WHIPTAIL and today I'm excited to report to our Data Center blog readers that the acquisition has been completed! Paul Perez has laid out Cisco's vision for this ...
I have the privilege of attending the Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Barcelona. The event brought in global executives across multiple industries, all with the common goal of using the netwo...
If you missed SCTE Cable-Tec Expo at Atlanta last week., check out the following three videos on what Cisco took away from the show. Cisco's Joe Cozzolino, SVP &GM, Cisco SP Video Infrastructure, shares his thoughts on ...
A Short Trip Down Memory Lane... On the quest of becoming a truly social-minded culture, about a year and a half ago, we rolled up our sleeves and created a multi-level, multi-track social media training program that used game pri...