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Predicting the Next Wave of Industry Disruption
Predicting the Next Wave of Industry Disruption
If you read the avalanche of marketing material from venture-funded loss-making startups in the cloud space you’d think that on-premise infrastructure
March 17, 2016
Changes, Part 1 – David Bowie, Containers and Cisco Live Berlin
Changes, Part 1 – David Bowie, Containers and Cisco Live Berlin
On January 10, David Bowie passed away. He was an icon in the music world, with a career spanning 5 decades, and selling 140 million albums, with many going to...
Feb. 19, 2016
Five Strategic Insurance Business Imperatives for 2016
Five Strategic Insurance Business Imperatives for 2016
“One of these days the ground will drop out from beneath your feet One of these days your heart will stop and play its final beat One...
Jan. 7, 2016
Top 3 Ways New ACI Innovations Improve Your Data Center
Top 3 Ways New ACI Innovations Improve Your Data Center
Yesterday, Cisco announced a new software release for ACI. If you are looking to automate IT, or build out your cloud environment, and want to do so in an open fashion...
Dec. 4, 2015
Connected Health News, Fall 2015 Edition
Connected Health News, Fall 2015 Edition
Have you read the latest Cisco Connected Health newsletter? We encourage you to explore the customer success stories, white papers, and videos to learn
Nov. 18, 2015
#CiscoChat Recap: Where Shopping Experience Meets the New Digital Customer
#CiscoChat Recap: Where Shopping Experience Meets the New Digital Customer
In my first #CiscoChat I hosted together with Anabelle Pinto, we were joined by Gaurav Pant and Sahir Anand from EKN Research to share their perspective and...
Nov. 18, 2015
Cybersecurity: The Holistic Trust Approach
Cybersecurity: The Holistic Trust Approach
In the past few years, the security industry has invested heavily in the detection and containment of attacks and breaches as a primary focus of innovation. To help protect Cisco,...
Oct. 8, 2015
Vulnerability Spotlight: MiniUPnP Internet Gateway Device Protocol XML Parser Buffer Overflow
Vulnerability Spotlight: MiniUPnP Internet Gateway Device Protocol XML Parser Buffer Overflow
Vulnerability discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos. Post authored by Earl Carter and William Largent Talos is disclosing the discovery of an
Oct. 2, 2015
ITD: Load Balancing, Traffic Steering & Clustering using Nexus 5k/6k/7k/9k
ITD: Load Balancing, Traffic Steering & Clustering using Nexus 5k/6k/7k/9k
Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is an innovative solution to bridge the performance gap between a multi-terabit switch and gigabit servers and appliances. It is a hardware based multi-terabit layer...
Sept. 10, 2015
Branch Direct Internet Access: is your branch office secure?
Branch Direct Internet Access: is your branch office secure?
With the recent launch of FirePower Threat Defense on Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers, I would like to spend some time talking about enterprise branch security and...
Aug. 7, 2015
We Who Cut Mere Stones Must Always Be Envisioning Cathedrals
We Who Cut Mere Stones Must Always Be Envisioning Cathedrals
The well-known Quarry Worker’s Creed, called out in prefaces to books such as “The Pragmatic Programmer” and “Ship While you Sleep”, posits the notion of IT...
Aug. 3, 2015
Digital Payments Lack the Framework for Success…And That Needs To Change
Digital Payments Lack the Framework for Success…And That Needs To Change
Co-authored with Mark Kovarski In an era of constant technological evolution, our utilization of different technologies, including mobile devices, has had massive impact on the financial services industry. As...
July 22, 2015