Steve Jobs is arguably the most amazing innovator of our times. I recently read some of his thoughts on innovation. His statement "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower," caused me to reflect upon my eight...
Listening to the radio on the way to work recently, I heard that hackers had stolen some 1.2billionusernames and passwords, affecting as many as 420,000 websites. When asked what listeners could do to protect themselves, the secur...
The city of Nancy was once the Art Nouveau capital of France. Today it is a smart city, incorporating tagging systems in its municipal infrastructure to give citizens access to data captured from traffic lights, bus systems, cross...
Cisco Distributors grow when their partners grow; simple as that. There are more than 170 Cisco distributors worldwide that do more than just pick, pack and ship. Each distributor offers an abundance of services and expertise -fro...
Cisco (UCS?) continues its tradition ofperformance and price/performance leadershipwith the announcement of aworld-record TPC-H benchmark at the 1000GB Scale FactorrunningMicrosoft SQL Server 2014.On august 20th 2014, the Cisco UC...
As a business or technical leader, you know you need to protect your company in a rapidly evolving mobile ecosystem. However, threats are not always obvious. As malware and attacks become more sophisticated over time, business d...
Data centers are rapidly adopting integrated infrastructure to run their businesses. However, the monitoring and management tools for these integrated components are not yet converged. Performance monitoring and capacity planning ...
****This article has been updated to remove a factoid discussing IoE and manufacturing job growth.**** We have entered the world of the Internet of Everything (IoE)-a world that brings people, data, processes and things together i...
I don't think that anyone can deny that being in the IT industry at this time is exciting and interesting. It's also exhausting. There is a ton of hyperbole floating about on Twitter and the Blogosphere concerning the need for net...
In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged, David Hartman and Tim Cerling discuss Fast Track 4.0 Solutions, which promote fast and efficient deployment of private clouds with Cisco, EMC, and Microsoft solutions. How many engi...
This post is co-authored by Jaeson Schultz and Craig Williams. Every so often, we observe certain spam campaigns that catch our interest. On August 15, we observed a particular spam campaign that caught our attenti...
In Monterrey, Mexico, deep economic and social gaps separate rich from poor, educated from uneducated, legal from illegal. In 2008, the city started experiencing violence related to turf battles between warring drug cartels. Drug ...