The United States continues to be the world's largest manufacturing economy, employing nearly 17 million people -about 1 in 6 private sector jobs. However, the modern manufacturing industry is struggling to attract the highl...
[WARNING: This blog post contains specifics on actual product features. Stop reading now if you prefer PowerPoint to Excel.] "Enterprise class." Sounds awesome. But does it have any meaning to your business? It turns out that it d...
BayThreat 2012, the third annual information security conference in the South Bay of San Francisco, will be held December 7-8 at The Firehouse Brewery in downtown Sunnyvale, Calif. This technical conference is well attended by sec...
Retention Trumps Satisfaction For about a decade, JD Power and Associates has been asking consumers to rate their satisfaction with insurance companies on a simple scale of 1-5. This summer, a study of the auto insurance industry ...
There has been major market traction this past year in the deployment of cloud services, but the discussion still too often focuses on cloud in the singular. Our experience has shown that companies are not typically adopting a sin...
In Cisco Data Center Services, we've been building towards this for the past 3 or 4 years. We're formalised our approach over the past year. Our early adopter customers have already given us terrific feedback. And tomo...
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was in London last week at a conference. I picked up the badge shown in the photo below, and it made me laugh, and I thought it would be a good image to pass on. VCE's Vblock ...
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is an international collaborative project to construct a low frequency radio telescope as a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a global mega-science project to build the world's larg...
As more devices,people andthings become connected to the Internet, an unprecedented amount of data will be generated: data which can become a powerful tool for solving some of the greatest challenges facing our planet. I...
Physical servers lend the comfort of knowing where your data is located and having control over access and protection of that data. But from a business perspective, there is a lot virtualization can offer. So what's the compromise...
The Social Innovation Summit takes place this week on December 4 and 5 in Mountain View, California. This annual gathering brings together corporate, investment, government, and nonprofit leaders to explore the strategies and busi...
Listening is our "North Star" and here at Cisco we are using insightsfromsocial listening to help guide and inform our social media strategy and enable meaningful engagements with our customers. Thanks to everyone who joined us on...