As information consumers that depend so much on the Network or Cloud, we sometimes indulge in thinking what will happen when we really begin to feel the effects of Moore's Law and Nielsen's Law combined, at the edges: th...
About two years ago, I went into a customer workshop on private cloud. As we were introducing ourselves around the table, the CIO turned to me with a pained expression and said, "Bob I have a different problem. My CFO and CEO just...
We announced the Network locality project at SC'13, and generated a LOT of interest (far more than I even anticipated!). As a refresher, here's a link to a a blog entry we wrote about Netloc back in November. There...
As Wi-Fi continues to be the primary mode of access, enterprise Unified Communication(UC) applications usage is increasing with smartphones, tablets and laptops. Customers are asking, is there anything I can do to prioritize Jabbe...
For a while now, I've been promoting that partners need to adopt a Hybrid IT business model to be successful and stay competitive in a world with more market transitions, more technologies, and more customer choices than ever befo...
Considering all the hype aroundthecloud, it's easy to forget that we live in a world ofmanyclouds. Organizations can't simply tap into a single all-powerful entity located everywhere and nowhere, all at once. In reality, they must...
A number of key applications consumed by businesses through premise-based deployments are now available from the cloud. Irrespective of where you are in the evolution to the cloud, here are five services that are worth your attent...
You may have caught this week's announcement from Citrix on the availability of XenDesktop 7.5(see announcement here). With this release, desktop virtualization implementers can tap into new elasticity and efficiencies of pr...
In my last blog post, I described a new collaboration between the MPI community and the OpenFabrics verbs community. The collaboration started with the OpenFrameworks group asking the MPI community to list its requirements for a l...
What do IT and K12 Common Core Standards have in common? Forty-five states, the District of Columbia, four territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity have adopted the Common Core State Standards. 100% of each of...
Today is the final day of a very busy and successful Cisco Live Milan 2014. Read my initial observations from the event earlier this week. As the event draws to a close, lets look at some of the location analytics available via C...
Earlier this week, we announced the Cisco Domain Ten framework 2.0, enhanced by great input from customers, partners, and Cisco's well-earned experience of strategizing and executing IT transformation. Theenhanced Cisco Doma...