A generation ago, part of the TV viewing experience was an unstated compact that in exchange for content, viewers would be subject to a certain amount of advertising. These ads may or may not have been relevant, but viewers noneth...
I recently did a project involving several moving parts, including Splunk, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS servers, EMC XtremSF cards, ScaleIO and Isilon. The project goal was to verify the functionality and performance of EMC storage&n...
As the number of users of social media continues to grow, the boundary between our personal and professional lives has begun to overlap. Unsurprisingly, the customer buying cycle is also beginning to change. By the time ...
Cisco has supported the communities where its employees live and work for close to 30 years. We leverage our resources and technology to multiply individual and nonprofit efforts to improve people's lives. One area Cisco foc...
In my last blog, I continued the discussion about the 24-hour bank and how banks must transition from the physical business model to the digital business model. As part of my series on the 24-hour bank, this post builds on the que...
Cisco customers have asked me how the Internet of Everything and the Internet of Things are going to affect their everyday life. My answer: it can be mind-boggling how interconnected sensors and devices are going to im...
As cities and communities prepare for the future and the Internet of Everything, they must confront a tsunami of challenges that can overwhelm how people live, work, play and learn. More than half the world now lives in cities for...
According to GigaOM, the use of cloud-based resources will be what's "next" for IT in preparation for an in-depth look at the infrastructure that will drive the next decade of application development. At the recent Structure ev...
Hello, everyone! I hope you enjoyed my last blog on some of the most popular use cases for analytics in the store. I hope you are also aware of an exciting three-part series of one-hour free webcasts that Cisco is currently doing ...
Traditional block ciphers work on fixed blocks of data-as an example, AES is well-defined for 128/192/256 bits. But one of the issues is the need for padding-so if you need to encrypt small amounts of data you may end with a huge ...
The Internet of Everything (IoE) is happening now, bringing together people, process, dataandthings through networked connections to create new experiences. Over the next 10 years, IoE could generate$4.6 trillion of value in the p...
Increasing safety used to mean finding budget for additional personnel, vehicles, equipment, radio networks, and other traditional IT. But thanks to an influx of connected technology, cities all over the world are reimagining what...