While the shutdown challenges in the federal government over the past week have been top-of-mind, a recent Cisco survey has discovered that when operations resume, overall budget constraints are seen as the greatest challenge to g...
The network at my workplace is gettingreally fastthese days. I cannot believe that as soon as I hit "Download" to pull a 50 MB Get to know the new Cisco Catalyst 3650 Switchvideo file from a server to my laptop, the browser immed...
In the last week alone, two investigations I have been involved with have come to a standstill due to the lack of attribution logging data. One investigation was halted due to the lack of user activity logging within an applicatio...
I have been getting a lot of questions about advocacy so I want to take a few minutes to share my thoughts. I often hear people use the terms "influencers" and "advocates" interchangeably. While there are similarities between thes...
Ever step into a small-town "mom and pop" store? The owners seem to know everyone in the community, along with their individual needs, likes, dislikes, and current life situations. It's not easy to scale that kind of old-fashioned...
The following blog was originally posted on the Grameen Foundation Insights Blog Today, Cisco asked us all to share our vision of how the Internet of Everything can improve our world, by "connecting the unconnected." Lik...
It's hard to believe but it's ten months since I first blogged on Cisco Domain TenSM, which is Cisco Service's framework to guide you on your path to data center and cloud transformation. I've now covered all ten ...
The Internet of Everything is a big thing, and it's going to get bigger. As more devices, sensors, gadgets, and people get interconnected, you'll hear more and more about it. But there's one aspect of the Internet of Everything th...
This blog was originally posted on Huffington Post. Every day, we're bombarded with seemingly unsolvable issues - health care crises, struggling schools, poverty, and climate change are just a few. These issues may at first seem t...
Aristotle was spot on when he said, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." This holds true when we look at the benefits of employee engagement in the socialsphere. Why not leverage your organization's built-in social me...
There a few milestones in my life that I can look back on and know that I have turned a corner. For example;-When I could no longer recognize the names in the Police Blotter section of the paper; I knew I was older. Although I sti...
Mobility, cloud and the Internet of Everything (IoE) continue to change IT security making point product solutions insufficient. The old model of having disparate products securing isolated areas simply won't protect against the d...