Have you visited your local high school or middle school lately? If so, it wouldn't surprise you to know that students spend considerable time focusing on recreational media unrelated to their coursework. Everything from Facebook ...
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...
As an early convert to the virtues of Cloud computing, it is fascinating to see the adoption of the ideas. Most organizations if not all, are figuring out how to harness cloud technologies to their advantage. It is in...
Fellow Technologists, Why are standards so important in Information Technology? Standards enable interoperability between complex systems. Many enterprises look to products that use these standards for easy integr...
Once the exclusive domain of senior executives, mobile devices are now indispensable to most employees for conducting both their business and personal lives. The insatiable demand for smartphones, tablets, and other connected devi...
Over the last few months we've made some nice additions and improvements to Cisco.com. We'll be writing in more detail about these individually, but I'd thought I'd give a short recap. 1. Faster Downloads!We've had some big perfor...
It's that time of year again - time to start preparing for Euro MPI 2013! Next year, we'll be heading to Madrid, Spain September 15-18. Here's a snipit from the call for papers: Topics of interest include, but are not lim...
We just launched the Cisco at NRF 2013 website. Cisco will be at the National Retail Federation (NRF) Convention and Expo 2013 in New York City from January 14-15, 2013. I'd like to invite you to come visit the Cisco boo...
It is important to understand that the real value of the Internet of Everything (IoE) lies in both the number and value of connections. To illustrate this point, consider the following scenario. When your car becomes connected to ...
Who doesn't know the Xerox company ? As long as I can remember, Xerox products have always been part of my professional life . In fact, even before working for a company, I used a Xerox machine. Originally known worldwide as a pri...
In this business, "monetization" is often a nice way to say "profits". And profits usually come at someone else's expense. But what if I told you you could be profitable giving away your product? Further, what if...