Reducing costs remains amongst the top reasons why organizations use public cloud services. However,when calculating the costs of public cloud services organizations need to look well beyond the license fees and billed costs. With...
Last week marked the first steps forward for a broad-based coalition of businesses who are working together to fight wanton abuse of the patent litigation system by patent assertion entities (PAEs). The coalition -United for ...
2014 ended with a flurry of technology conferences in Europe and the Middle East. In November, the European Commission's (EC) annual Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Conference addressed how to make the EC a 2...
When people think of mentoring, the images of an apprentice learning from his master are often rendered. The senior blacksmith guiding his pupil through the craft he has spent his life perfecting. Over the years mentoring has chan...
It is amazing how a vision can start, grow, morph and become a reality. Van White, President of The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) and Rochester City School District School Board President, had a vision, and he ...
This week, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting will convene 2500 leaders from business, government, academia, and civil society in Davos, Switzerland. There, these global problem solvers will engage in strategic discussi...
I've mentioned it before: the run-time systems of MPI implementations are frequently unsung heroes. A lot of blood, sweat, tears, and innovation goes into parallel run time systems, particularly those that can scale to very large ...
A lot happened in IoT in 2014. About this time last year, John Chambers laid out$1.9T market projection for IoT at CES and that drew significant attention and generated momentum in many industries. Over the year, we saw some real ...
Security is hot topic on everyone's mind and for IT it is a constant challenge to stay ahead of the latest threats and vulnerabilities that their organizations face on a daily basis. Take a quick look at the news and it won't take...
Director of Cisco Canada's Oil and Gas vertical business, Brad BechtoldBrad Bechtold started a series of Oil and Gas discussions on our Cisco Canadian Blog which I know our readers would be interested in here. As Director of...
Co-Authored by: Shaun Kirby, CTO, Cisco Consulting Services The IoE promises to revolutionize industries by providing access to a wealth of previously hidden information obtained from a myriad of new connected sensors fused intell...
The 2015 Cisco Networking Academy NetRiders Competition grand prize trip is coming to an end today, and the 17 winners will be heading home very soon. William Neumann will travel back to Brazil, Diana Polombo w...