I need to preface this blog with a full disclosure statement. I love shopping! And apparently I am not alone in my affinity for all things retail. Let's face it, many people enjoy the thrill of acquiring a new "bright shiny t...
"The Wi-Fi market has been moving to controller-less solutions, and Cisco appears to be walking the controller-less management walk." This statement by Zeus Kerravala, who wrote this statement for an article he penned for Network ...
It's been a year since I wrote this blog detailing our software innovations aimed at helping Service Providers address the ever-increasing challenges imposed by digitization. IOS XR for cloud-scale networking has really taken flig...
One is a sport apparel retailer while the other is a software company. "What can they possibly have in common?" you may ask. Both have a common IT goal, and that is to extend their enterprise network to AWS cloud, but for very dif...
Mody University's focus is delivering quality STEM education to women from all around the world. Their vision goes beyond transforming the educational experience to also ensuring a connected student experience. Embarking on a...
There is a great deal of focus in the world today on gender equality. Women are being given an equal chance to prove themselves, to work their way up the corporate ladder and hold executive leadership positions. If they so c...
Paella, Tapas, Spanish reds, thin slices of Iberian Ham, Antoni Gaudi, and a twisty walk through the Gothic Quarter. Yes, I'm talking about Barcelona! And it was there, in the "Head and Hearth of Catalonia" where the 2016 European...
London Financial CentreOver the past few years, I've attended Gartner's Data Center Conference in London (see 2013, 2014, and 2015 !). As always, it was a very informative couple of days with some surprises, and one or two "I...
To celebrate the launch last week of my book,Building the Internet of Things,I am taking a short break from my current series on my "Recipe for IoT Success" to offer an excerpt from the book: We are all aware of the environmental ...
I've always had compassion for the plight of many in Africa. I think it started from me being overly sensitive at a young age and taking the old dinner table saying "finish your food, there are starving children in Africa" to hear...
Over the past few years, I have seen IT organizations adopt cloud in very different ways. Some organizations prefer to standardize their cloud infrastructure to drive efficiencies in their data centers. As a result, they eventuall...
What if the world's leading mobile devices communicated at a deeper, more trusting level with the world's leading corporate networks? That was the question that Apple and Cisco asked themselves when they announced their new partne...