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Have you heard of Tim Crawford? If you’re an IT leader and you haven’t, you’re in for a treat today. Tim is an advisor to CIOs and enterprise organizations across a number of industries including financial services, healthcare, tech firms, and major airlines. He’s an internationally renowned thought…

Cloud products have a very different kind of buyer than traditional hardware gear.  Sure, there’s some overlap between these two constituents but for Cisco, who has long been a trusted supplier of the IT organization we have a new group of people we’re getting to know: Developers in line of business…

Less than two years ago, version 1 of Kubernetes was released. Today, there are over 1,100 contributors in the Kubernetes community. This number does not even include members who are active in Special Interest Groups (SIGs). The community has grown globally and outside of Google, so much so, that th…

A couple weeks ago I posted about the OpenStack Summit speaker selection process. I shared an interview with one of the track chairs, Gary Kevorkian. I speculated about how much or how little the voting process impacts the choices the organizers make. And I shared a list of talks submitted by my Cis…

I am not a big Starbucks fan but let us face it, it’s nice to go there, sit down and have a coffee while you work. The sound, the ambiance or let us say the customer experience it’s good. When you are in a hurry and especially if you are in a business area, the lines get very long and on a Monday mo…

Welcome DevNet Create Being social and digital first, it’s really #DevNetCreate to me – who doesn’t talk in hashtags? What an exciting time where a big shift continues toward application development and how apps are changing the world. Application developers are no longer confined…

Interoperability standards have posed an elusive challenge for the NFV industry. Cisco recently participated in ETSI’s first Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Interoperability Plugtest, held in Madrid, Spain, between January 23 and February 3, 2017 with great success, further validating Cisco N…

I’m really excited for next week’s Enterprise Connect in Orlando. Why? Because this show is so focused on what matters most to us: Collaboration. We’re looking forward to having you experience our latest products in our demo area. Because it is all about the experience with us. I find that more than…

IT has evolved from running and maintaining traditional infrastructures, to a broader role of delivering new business outcomes. Enter Hybrid IT, which recognizes that where workloads run is just one small part of an entire IT infrastructure. More than just hybrid cloud, it’s a strategy that blends c…