CDP

Corporate Knights and CDP Announce Global Sustainability Leaders

Earlier this week, both CDP and Corporate Knights announced the results of their 2020 assessment of thousands of global companies in the areas of climate change (CDP) and the broader topic of sustainability (Corporate Knights). At the 2020 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos Switzerland Corporate Kn…

Live from Davos: CDP and Corporate Knights Highlight Global Sustainability Leaders

On Tuesday of this week, both CDP and Corporate Knights announced the results of their 2018 assessment of thousands of global companies in the areas of climate change (CDP) and the broader topic of sustainability (Corporate Knights). Corporate Knights has historically used the World Economic Forum a…

Three Ways to Make Virtual Connections Count for Business and the Planet

This article also appears on Sustainable Brands. Authors: Paul Dickinson, Executive Chair, CDP Heidi Rhodes, Workforce Experience Specialist, Digital Transformation Group, Cisco Darrel Stickler, Global Environment Lead, Corporate Affairs, Cisco Since the introduction of Cisco Telepresence in Octo…

January 20, 2017

DATA CENTER

It’s no use going back to yesterday’s storage platform for tomorrow’s applications

There’s a line in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland where Alice says “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Some days I feel that way about my storage infrastructures as well. I fell down a particular rabbit-hole into storage management accidentally…

Pushing the Sustainability Envelope: Cisco Supply Chain to Cut 1 Million Metric Tonnes of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 20 …

Cisco’s sustainability journey took a big step forward last month with the announcement of a new goal to avoid one million metric tonnes of greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions from our supply chain operations by the year 2020, which will drive emissions reductions related to our outsourced manufacturing…

Cisco Tops CDP Global and U.S. Carbon Rankings

Yesterday, CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) released its assessment of how companies in the S&P 500 did on CDP’s 2013 carbon investor questionnaire. About a week ago, CDP released a similar assessment for the Global 500, the 500 largest companies by market capitalization on the FTSE Global…

January 24, 2013

NETWORKING

Life Behind the Black Curtain: What it takes to setup a large tradeshow network.

I spend a lot of time behind curtains.  That’s not really out of choice as it’s the nature of where they stick you when you’re running the network at a large tradeshow.  We call it the Network Operations Center – NOC if you want to sound cool – but most people just know it as the guys to complain to…