When used wisely, consuming cloud as-a-service (aaS) can dramatically improve business outcomes. Primarily, cloud IT services can promote business agility, reduce expenses, and accelerate time-to-market. They also can provide acce...
Photo courtesy of Breville, USA, Creative Commons license.We talk to customers all the time that want to move to OpenStack, but the tools and processes they rely on just aren't ready. Or the policies around their applications or d...
Recently, I have been reading about organizational evolution. There are some great articles and insights out there, but the common theme running through all of them is that we face an unpredictable future and we need to be agile. ...
A Q&A with Cisco Vice President of Intellectual Property, Dan Lang According to a report from global recruitment firm WilsonHCG, tech companies are the most successful among the Fortune 500 at finding and recruiting top ...
It's fun seeing some of the quirky examples of home pages on web sites today, including Amazon's retro "April 1, 1999" page. I can't think of a time we've ever done anything like that on Cisco.com, mainly because we don't wan...
I was on a weeklong business trip to London last month, and as I made my way to purchase a ticket for Heathrow Express train, I realized that I had left my corporate credit card at home. It was close to midnight in London, and Hea...
If you do not know theInternational Society of Service Innovation Professionalsor ISSP, I encourage you to do so. ISSIP is an amazing organization with very active Cisco engagement; and yes Cisco is a co-founder of ISSIP. ISSIP de...
I had the opportunity to attend the White House Science Fair last week, and I was blown away by the creativity and curiosity of the young men and women who presented their inventions. The team that really stole the show was a grou...
We are looking forward to participating in theHIMSS15 Annual Conference & Exhibitionfrom April 13-15 in Chicago, IL. If you are planning to attend HIMSS15, be sure to visit the Cisco booth (#2002) to discover solutions f...
In our consumer-centric society, product recall announcements grab headlines and attention. As their costs continue to climb, enterprises have weathered recent recalls with record-breaking costs that have soared into the billions....
Location,location, location. We so often hear the axiom that location is what drives the value of real estate. But location is also key to extracting context from on-site data for analytics and business outcomes. And, the value ge...
Protecting data, maintaining compliance, and enabling the business is a balancing act. Put too many controls in place and you inhibit workflow. Rely exclusively on traditional security tools and you lack the visibility to detect a...