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January 8, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

IoE and JiT: making the future more efficient through connectivity

If there was a developing market opportunity that would bring you $19 trillion (with a “T”), you’d probably be interested, wouldn’t you. If that market’s impact on the world–not just the technology sphere–was going to have 5-10 times the impact ten years fro…

January 8, 2014

NETWORKING

17 Signs You Could Be A CiscoChampion for Enterprise Networks

If you see yourself in any of the following, you might be a Cisco Champion for Enterprise Networks. You’ve named your pet cat “6k” News of a new .11ac AP excites you CVDs are beach reading You can name more than 4 services offered on an ISR You know why there aren’t IOS ver. 13 nor 14 Your home n…

December 24, 2013

NETWORKING

IWAN Starter Kit and CiscoChampions

Over the weekend I had a brief twitter chat with someone who mentioned he had been wondering ‘what the heck is IWAN?’ (I’m paraphrasing here) and hadn’t been able to find anything on it.  Besides asking the obvious – why he hadn’t asked me or @CiscoEnterprise abou…

December 18, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

The Importance of Executive Sponsorship

Executive sponsorship is one of the most important non-technical aspects of a project. Everyone knows about the technical: do we have rack space, is there enough power, did fibers get ordered, did the equipment ship, are the cut sheets ready? But rarely is thought given to the people aspect of proje…

December 17, 2013

NETWORKING

Announcement: Nominations Now Open For Cisco Champions for Enterprise Networks

Are you passionate about Cisco’s networking technology?  You know, routing, switching, mobility and more? Run for routers? Swoon over 11ac? Named your turtle Captain Catalyst? Do you love sharing your knowledge? Do you want unique access to Cisco experts? Today is your lucky day my friend!   I’…

December 4, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

Cloud: Are you confused, convinced or converted?

If you are in some way connected to the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, you probably have an opinion on cloud-based services. The past couple of years have seen a frenzy of activity in the business to business cloud services with manufacturers, service providers, and users…

November 27, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

Driving to work in Internet of Everything

Recently Ford celebrated the success of the SYNC® system with its 10-Millionth SYNC equipped vehicle. For those who don’t know what the Ford SYNC system is, head over to the Ford Technology page and get yourself educated. What’s important about this milestone is the fact car connectivity has reached…

November 26, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

My Weekend and the Internet of Everything

What would an “Internet of Everything” weekend look like was my question earlier this month as I sat there eating breakfast before going into battle later that day. Today’s meal was critical fuel for my next round of matches in a Masters Squash Tournament. The pressure was on because members of my f…

November 20, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

3.9 Million and the IOE

If I told you there’s something all around us that, if connected, could significantly help reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, reduce pollution on a massive scale, reduce the amount of time we spend in our cars, make entire cities smarter and contribute to an overall improvement of peoples’ physi…