Government

Law Enforcement evidence held for ransom, utilities taken offline and transportation derailed. All have happened in the last 12 months. Sometimes it feels like TV supervillains from our childhood have come to life; CHAOS, Cobra and, worst of all, the dreaded Legion of Doom. But in a world of interna…

There’s an adage that goes “Out with the old; in with the new.” In the world of IT, that clearly fits. Our industry is constantly innovating, and there is always a shiny new object to catch the interest of the IT staff. Unified communications are certainly a part of that IT innovation trend. From th…

IT services have changed a lot since I first became involved with them, but then, so has networking.  We use to laugh about putting an IP address on a refrigerator and now the Internet of Things has made that a reality. However, as technology evolves and becomes more sophisticated, it becomes increa…

Each year we look forward to getting together with CIOs and industry leaders like yourself at the NASCIO Annual Conference. This year’s theme, “Connect, Create, Collaborate”, is of special interest to us as it is designed to address key issues facing State CIOs in the year ahead; cybersecurity, digi…

Executive Order 13794, The Establishment of the American Technology Council, set forth an initiative to modernize the federal government’s information technology infrastructure and systems. Issued May 1, 2017, the order’s first task for the ATC was to define its strategy to modernize IT. The Report…

Here it is, my second blog post. I think I’m slowly getting the hang of this blogging thing, surveying the state of the Internet of Things  and making bold predictions about the future. To recap, I’m an engineer for Cisco in our federal group, working on the architectures for IoT. I live in the Wash…

Google, Uber, Ford. They are the big names in driverless vehicles. But did you know Cisco is already empowering nearly every Connected Car on Earth? Through its cloud-based IoT platform, Jasper, Cisco has become a key player in Smart Car technology, helping Honda launch its connected car services ac…

Everybody knows that modernizing legacy systems brings better security along with all of the other improvements in power and efficiency. It seems, however, that despite what everybody knows, a large number of federal IT leaders don’t believe it. A recent survey showed that 59 percent of respondents…

What if you had a car with a powerful, turbo-charged engine that could fly along at 130 mph —until you turned on the air conditioner and watched the max speed drop to 50? Pick up two friends, and it struggles to maintain 30 mph. This would be depressing for you as a driver, but it does make a good a…