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September 28, 2018

INNOVATION

Overcoming the Dark Side of IoT

From Alexa’s random outbursts of laughter to claims that your smart refrigerator wants to kill you, it is easy to see why the Internet of Things (IoT) invokes negative connotations. Some may even say IoT has a dark side, fueled by security and privacy concerns along with uncertainty about what these…

September 14, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Powering AI Workloads in Media and Entertainment

If you’ve been following news in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and are involved in media and entertainment, this has been a week of milestones. First, Cisco announced the expansion of the UCS portfolio to power the full lifecycle of AI, from data collection and analysis, to data preparation and train…

September 11, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco @IBC 2018: When Tech & Creativity Align – Artificial Intelligence and Media Production

Few topics fan the innovation flames more vigorously these days than Artificial Intelligence (AI). Gartner predicts that by 2020, AI will be a top five investment priority for more than 30% of CIOs, and by 2022, AI will be one of three top workloads in the data center. Lurking inevitably nearby in c…

August 14, 2018

COLLABORATION

Send Cisco Collaboration to SXSW 2019

For more than 30 years, SXSW has brought the best of the entertainment scene together with a cross-disciplinary professional conference in Austin, Texas. And in 2019, Cisco envisions that collaborative meeting of the minds at the conference including…well, intuitive collaboration technologies. This…

XR on the Bay Recap: aka the Day Roger Didn’t Get to Meet Silicon Valley’s Gilfoyle (Part 2)

(Continued from Part 1) Dave Ward, Cisco, left; Ben Havey, Walt Disney Studios, right, during “the reveal” of Disney’s StudioLAB Leslie Ellis: Such as what it takes to make a blockbuster film. As in, hundreds of people, and it takes months. Whereas with new and emerging VR tools,…

July 26, 2018

COLLABORATION

The Future of Contact Center: Cisco and AI Pave the Way

When I think of the contact centers I visited in the 1990s, I remember walking into an open area where the agents worked. I noticed all the brightly colored sticky notes that dotted their workspaces. At the time, I thought it looked like chaos. But, in reality, that is how contact centers managed in…

XR on the Bay Recap: aka the Day Roger Didn’t Get to Meet Silicon Valley’s Gilfoyle (Part 1)

Hi, it’s Rog. On June 26, at Cisco’s Building No. 9, in San Jose, we and the Advanced Imaging Society, hosted our first-ever “XR on the Bay: Where Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood” event. Jim Chabin, President of the AIS, kicked things off with a rather brilliant observation, which summed up the entir…

July 25, 2018

COLLABORATION

Future of Work with Cisco and Google

Cisco and Google, two strategic technology partners to 21st Century Fox, announced a new era of the partnership on the future of collaboration. Paul Cheesbrough, CTO at 21st Century Fox, interviewed me and David Thacker, Vice President of Product Management at Google, to find out more about the anno…

June 11, 2018

GOVERNMENT

Edge and fog computing: Cutting through the haze (Part 1)

Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi movie, Westworld, may be where the initial concept of edge and fog computing (as well as the computer virus) first came to life. In the film, androids appeared to operate using an early form of automated response. But the edge and fog we know today, are much more evolv…