When customers look to deploy their Hadoop solutions, one of the first questions they ask is, which distro should we run it on? For many enterprise customers, the answer has been MapR. For those of you not familiar with MapR, they...
We've mentioned earlier that Cisco is again a platinum sponsor at this year's Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. We'll showcase UCS, UCS Manager, PowerTool for PowerShell, and many other management solutions and technologie...
Virtualization on the plant floor "While IT networks already use virtualization extensively, its benefits are moving into industrial networks. Five diverse viewpoints on its advantages and implementation are offered." Great art...
Welcome to the Cisco Sizzle!Each month, we'll be rounding up the best of the best from across our social media channels for your reading pleasure. From the most read blog posts to the top engaging content on Facebook or LinkedIn, ...
In this installment of the "We're Listening" blog, Kathy Harrington, VP of Global Service Delivery, delves into actions taken by Cisco's Order Management team to improve your order management experience. We constantly strive to ac...
On the eve of Microsoft's first Lync User Conference, I think it's a great time to start a frank anddirect conversation about what's changed in collaboration and, because of those changes, what's really important for IT decision m...
By Joe Chow, Vice President and General Manager, Connected Devices Business Unit Following Cisco's 2Q FY '13 earnings call last week, we received questions about our commitment to certain elements of our set-top box business. Comm...
Add this to your list of parties spoilt by the Internet revolution: national sovereignty. We all know that the borderless nature of the Internet is stretching longstanding technical and legal definitions. But recently, my colleagu...
You heard about the new features packed into Cisco Wireless Release 7.4 before the holidays. We are now unveiling the 7.4 Release for the Mobility Services Engine, and I am excited to announce the General Availability of Cisco Adv...
The great (relatively) untapped kingdom of 'indoor wireless' may be the next great frontier? With expectations of WiFi connectivity for just about any business we visit these days, there is no reason this next step for making t...
For the fifth year, Cisco has released its updated Mobile Visual Networking Index Forecast. This year, we've seen dramatic changes in consumer behavior as well as continued explosive growth in mobile data. Global mobile traf...
Mobile data traffic worldwide will increase 13 times by 2017. That's from the latest Cisco VNI Mobile Data Forecast Update, 2012-2017 released in early February. (For a quick recap, check out Thomas Barnett's blog post and i...