Ben Stricker

Last week at our global Partner Summit event, at a press conference in front of global press and analysts, Cisco unveiled its Digital Network Architecture (DNA) to help customers on their journey to digitization. The response from industry reporters has been extremely positive, as journalists highli…

This week, Cisco introduced a new era in hyperconverged infrastructure with Cisco HyperFlex Systems, as part of a larger announcement of new data center innovations for the hybrid cloud across networking, hyper-converged, and hybrid cloud orchestration. Our data center news also included our intent…

Running a Las Vegas resort and casino is like running a small city. As Vice President of IT at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Eric Saint-Marc is responsible for keeping traffic and maintenance of that city running as smoothly as possible. But his added responsibilities go further than any cit…

There’s no doubt that the Internet of Everything will have profound implications for all of the world’s industries. However, the vast majority of these industries are located on land, leaving the two-thirds of the Earth covered in water with minimal Internet connectivity. With that, no greater oppor…

For baseball fans like me – especially if your favorite team made the playoffs – the October postseason is  the most wonderful time of the year (with apologies to Christmas). For the Major League Baseball teams that have made it this far, months of preparation has led up to this point, and now…

Last week Cisco significantly expanded its Unified Computing System (UCS) converged infrastructure portfolio in a launch event in New York City on Thursday, which as press noted several times, marks “the most significant technology announcement from Cisco this year.” Feedback from press was extremel…

What do you get when you take Cisco’s best-selling campus access switch line, double almost everything (including port density in-stack, stacking bandwidth, buffers and CPU), then make it more secure and simpler to use, all with power-saving capabilities that possibly make it the “greenest” access s…

In the U.S., the “March Madness” NCAA college basketball tournament is one of the most highly viewed online sporting events of the year, with 52 million visits across March Madness on Demand’s broadband and mobile platforms last year.  Even for casual viewers or non-fans who typically don’t pay atte…