Jon Judson

My last experience of Amsterdam came when I was 21.  Spending six months “finding myself” in Europe, I stepped off a train in this beautiful city, and “found myself” staying a couple of weeks.  The city then – as now – was welcoming.  My passes through youth hostels and strangers’ homes introduced m…

You are the champions of configuration; the sultans of software, the pashas of peripherals, the bhagwans of bandwidth, the wizards of wireless and industrial IoT; the kings and queens of the cloud. For the Superheroes, we have a Super-Event, as Cisco rolls into Las Vegas for the annual CiscoLive me…

UTC’s annual conference speeds into the home of NASCAR to highlight telecommunications in the Utilities industry. This highly anticipated event offers the opportunity for thousands of information and communications technology (ICT) professionals and technology partners to network and learn how exper…

Cisco has worked to bring the cloud closer to the ground through Fog and Edge Analytics, but what if we could bring the cloud right to the point of origin, to the place where the data is needed most? This is where IoT crosses the chasm between analytics and proactive interaction. It’s the new distor…

Writen by Jon Judson and Scot Wlodarczak Rain and cold greeted the thousands who attended CiscoLive Berlin this year, but the city’s venues were warm and dry and the locals were always ready with a smile and good German food. And of course, “Einen halben Liter Pilsener, bitte” will get you a nice pi…

Enable – Differentiate – Define. This is the message Cisco brought to DistribuTECH 2017, and as the utility industry experiences their own Digital Business Transformation, the Digital Vortex draws them ever closer to the whirlwind. With new technologies and capabilities emerging almost daily, the co…

The Weather Channel today reported that snow and ice covers the ground in 49 of 50 states this weekend, so many of us are looking forward to traveling to San Diego at the end of this month for DistribuTECH!  Warm breezes, palm trees, and some of the best technology available to the power industry wi…

In recent years, utilities have risen in the ranks of common targets for cybercriminals. On Wednesday, December 7th, @Cisco_IoT and @CiscoUtilities hosted Utilities Security Imperative: More Real Than Ever, a #CiscoChat focused on cybersecurity for utilities companies. During this lively #CiscoChat,…

Paella, Tapas, Spanish reds, thin slices of Iberian Ham, Antoni Gaudi, and a twisty walk through the Gothic Quarter. Yes, I’m talking about Barcelona! And it was there, in the “Head and Hearth of Catalonia” where the 2016 European Utility Week was held November 15 – 17. Walking the floor reminded m…