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2016 has been a fascinating year for networking. We are obligated to say that every year, but this year truly has seen some landmark innovations. The industry has made some great strides with digital transformation and Cisco has been at the forefront with multiple network innovations and awards. In…

As I blogged in July of this year, Cisco supports protecting and enabling the international flow of personal data that furthers a progressive economy. To that end, we received official word that we are loud, proud, and on the list for the Privacy Shield – the voluntary, self-certification framework…

Did you know Pokémon Go set the record for the Apple App Store downloads in the first week?  Not only that, it has gone on to break five Guinness World Records: Most revenue grossed by a mobile game in the first month Most downloaded, first month Most international charts topped simultaneously for…

Over the past few years, I’ve attended Gartner’s Data Center Conference in London (see 2013, 2014, and 2015 !). As always, it was a very informative couple of days with some surprises, and one or two “I knew that would happen” moments – we’ll I like to think that…

Going Digital, Digitization, The Digital Experience are all terms being thrown around these days and I am often asked “what does that really mean?”.  While the industry has done an amazing job of creating new buzz words, it is hard for the everyday technologist to link them to anything practical.  W…

Is It A Bait-and-Switch? As 2016 comes to a close, we in the managed IT services industry can say with some confidence that our customers really do understand the value proposition of our offerings. This was not always the case, even into the recent past. Time and again, when we begin the engagement…

By now, we’ve all heard the estimate that by 2020, 50 billion devices will be connected. Some estimates are higher, some lower, but we can all agree…it’s a lot. What we know and can see is that more data is being generated today than ever before. And the nature of the data is changing. It’s ge…

If you’ve read any of my past blogs, you’ll know I focus a lot on the economic impact of Cisco UCS. Today I’m comparing the TCO of hosting data intensive workloads on-prem vs. in the public cloud. What started out as a 2RU rackmount consolidation discussion (more on that next week) turned into a pub…

If you’re responsible for network, compute infrastructure, or even VM administration – DevOps can sound like mumbo jumbo: Continuous Integration. Continuous Deployment. DevOps tool chain. Branching. Release trains. Agile Development. Green/Blue. A/B. Yadda Yadda Yadda. You don’t need to understand a…