My posts will be focused on bringing topics of interest to government and business decision makers and explaining topics that could be very technical at level to allow good business decisions. As a company, Cisco is blessed ...
As we pass the halfway point of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), I wanted to call attention to some of our colleagues over on the Cisco Government Blog. Patrick Finn and Peter Romness have been busy this month espo...
Many organizations make the error of thinking that basic defensive software is sufficient to protect critical data and infrastructure. When in reality, in order for government and enterprise organizations to keep their data protec...
There's no question that more people around the world are connecting to wireless networks at home, work and play via mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. This rise in mobile device usage begs the question: How soon wil...
At Cisco live! Orlando in June, Cisco unveiled its vision for an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a next-generation, secure data center fabric design. At the time, we were only able to unveil key conceptual aspects of ACI...
I've talked before about how getting high performance in MPI is all about offloading to dedicated hardware. You want to get software out of the way as soon as possible and let the underlying hardware progress the message pas...
I recently wrote a blog titled Blade Server TCOandArchitecture -You Cannot Separate Them and thought a little more on the architecture side would be a good thing. With so much misinformation (dis-information?) about UCS runn...
It was not so long ago that people would often have to make difficult choices about their work. Your dream job might open up 3,000 miles away. Your new job means leading a team on the other side of the world. Your day is spent on ...
Even in the face of the U.S. government shutdown, law enforcement around the world continued undeterred. The 120thAnnual International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference and Law Enforcement Education and Techno...
Day 2 of Educause 2013 has been both information-filled and somewhat fascinating. During the general session this morning, author and renowned game designer, Jane McGonigal, shared some intriguing facts about the power of gaming i...
When your incident response team gets access to a new log data source, chances are that the events may not only contain an entirely different type of data, but may also be formatted differently than any log data source you already...
There are two ways to write this blog. One is all positive, happy and humorous. The other is to be real. I've wrote both versions. I like the happy one better. I had some funny, "You know you're fat when..." Foxworthy-isc quips......