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First off, there are two things you need to know about this week’s guest on the Cloud Unfiltered podcast: 1) Barack Obama follows her on Twitter, and 2) She and her husband modified a Hummer to run on vegetable oil. Those two things alone make her interesting enough (and cool enough) that I would be…

A few months ago, I wrote a piece dispelling some of the most common misconceptions about the ubiquitous internet of things (IoT). But as I mentioned in the article, IoT by itself is not truly transformational. To deliver the greatest impacts — creating new business models, markets and value proposi…

Artificial intelligence and the internet of things have the potential to drive unprecedented productivity, reduce pollution, and improve human health. With the rollout of advanced, high speed wireless connectivity known as 5G in the next few years, the number of connected devices will explode: 28.5…

When you were a youngster, did you ever ride a merry-go-round and couldn’t quite reach the brass ring that streaked by upon every rotation? You were so close, but didn’t have the full reach to grab the coveted prize. I’m hearing a similar frustration from business leaders around the world when it co…

This post was written by guest blogger Dr. Natalie Rens, CEO of Spaceport AI. She recently spoke as part of Cisco’s Women Rock-IT series. We explore Mars for many reasons, be it the risk minimization of distributing our species across multiple planets or the fact that our population is growing at a…

AI/ML is a dominant trend in the enterprise. While AI/ML is not fundamentally new, the ubiquity of large amounts of observed data, the rise of distributed computing frameworks and the prevalence of large hardware-accelerated computing infrastructure has lead to new wave of breakthroughs in AI in the…

As technology grows more complex and more critical to your business, it’s even more important that you have the right support to turn to — whether you have a hardware fault to troubleshoot, or need advice with a complex configuration or software update. If you’re a Cisco customer, chances are you’ve…

As an IT leader, how much of your budget do you typically spend to keep the lights on? 30 percent? 40 percent? Try 78 percent. So how much room does this leave for innovation? In my estimation, not nearly enough. This number, however, doesn’t shock or surprise me. We’ve been moving so quickly over t…

Innovators have been developing artificial intelligence (AI), IoT, cybersecurity, and related technologies for some time, yet the legal world has had limited engagement with the issues likely to arise from these technologies—except for those in the area of privacy. And this poses real challenges. Fo…