Bring your Own Device (BYOD)

For Network Admins, it’s sort of like waiting for your favorite blockbuster to hit the local cinema. You’ve read a few spoilers, you’ve watched all of the previews, now you’re pumped for the movie. Only the movie hasn’t been released. As Tom Petty once sang, “The waiting is the hardest part.” At Cis…

Today, thousands of Cisco customers are using the Identity Services Engine for guest and BYOD access. Naturally they want their users to have a great experience with great looking portals that’s consistent with their company brand. Custom portal creation typically requires technical and design exper…

Here’s a question: how many devices are brought into your organization that conform to the 802.11ac Wave 2 standards? Don’t tell me, I already know the answer: probably none. That’s great and you’re safe. For now. By this time next year, you’re going to start seeing more and more 802.11ac Wave 2 ena…

The RSA Insurance Group is a British multinational general insurance company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, operating in more than 140 countries and reaching more than 17 million customers. Faced with challenges spurred by new trends in their work environment such as BYOD, more geographic…

In recent years, wireless has become the preferred means of access for networks. This change may be have been inevitable to some, but why did this happen? What has changed to make this possible? Not too long ago, there was a time when wireless had the reputation of not having the reliability or perf…

  Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) technology promises many benefits to organizations.  For example, increased productivity results when users can access data with any device, anywhere, anytime.  By both simplifying and automating security and policy management, IT management costs can also be redu…

Cisco customers, partners, and field have been eagerly awaiting the release of the latest version of the Identity Services Engine and the AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. Well, the wait is now over! After another highly successful limited availability program, Cisco ISE 1.3 and Cisco AnyConnect 4.…

As retailers will have us believe, we’ve already kickstarted the holiday season, but with Cisco participating in three mobility events in the span of 5 days, it also feels like mobility season here.…

The 2014 Automation Conference (TAC) was held March 20-21, 2014 in sunny Chicago (Yes, sunny Chicago!! I made sure to pack some California sunshine for the Windy City) attracted a diverse group of automation and manufacturing thought leaders and subject matter experts from leading machine builders,…