I really love my mobile devices, my iPhone, iPod, and rPod. What's an rPoD you ask? It's my mobile getaway vehicle. I can get access to mobile apps, listen to music, and enjoy a getaway to the coast. These...
MGM Resorts in Las Vegas is all about hospitality. Being one of many major resorts on the renowned Las Vegas Strip, MGM was anxious to connect with guests -and have guests connect to them. They needed to offer something that the c...
IT managers are in an interesting situation -all the developments in virtualization, compute, and mobility are bringing new opportunities for architecting an efficient IT infrastructure. They are looking for ways to do more with l...
In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged, Brian Gracely (@bgracely) of Virtustream takes on the challenge of explaining the industry's top buzzword, Software Defined Networking, using doughnuts. Seeing is believing: Wel...
Yesterday, "The Network: Cisco's Technology News Site" was honored by Ragan PR Daily as "Best Online Newsroom." (Great .gif of Sandra Bullock on this page as well, by the way!) And, last month, we received the Grand Prize fr...
This has been an exciting week. Further expanding its Big Data portfolio, Cisco has announced collaboration with Intel, its long term partner, for the next generation of open platform for data management and analytics. The joint s...
1. Define Your VoiceWriting for social media is its own discipline and different from traditional writing: it is more like writing a story, a story that you want people to share with their friends and so on and so on. Defining you...
It doesn't seem like it's been that long, but remember a couple of months ago when we were all reading articles like "5 ways technology will impact higher ed in 2013" about trends to watch in 2013? Well, at the beginning of the ye...
This week, Juniper Networks announced a new cloud-based threat intelligence service focused on fingerprinting attackers' individual devices. We'd like to officially welcome Juniper to the cloud-based security intelligence market-a...
After a few months of work, I'm happy to announce Cisco has contributed the LISP protocol upstream into the Open vSwitch project. LISP is an open protocol developed by the IETF LISP Working Group. By getting LISP upstream int...
The so-called "data deluge" shows no signs of abating anytime soon. Facebook, for example, has more than 2.5 billion pieces of content and ingests more than 500 terabytes of new content daily. Mobile devices are driving this...
I'm not a doctor...but Iama patient. I'm also a keen observer of the world around me-especially when it involves my health. For many healthcare professionals, I believe the recent challenges surrounding the industry have taken som...