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While everyone else is enjoying summer’s warm days and fun-filled vacations, the analysts at Gartner and Forrester are busy working on their next set of reports covering the data virtualization market and key products in the space such as the Cisco Information Server. What new data virtualization re…

I don’t know about you, but everyone seems to be talking analytics – it is another great digital transformation buzzword. Most of the time in financial services, analytics means customer analytics – how we can combine structured data within the bank with the world of big data to give us amazingly ne…

If you’re like me, the digital shakeups rumbling across industries interest you. And, this curiosity bumps you into examples while just “doing life.” It even happens while camping with friends. While sipping campfire coffee around a picnic table, a friend told me about his new position as a hospital…

Your network is complicated and you don’t have time for an intricate solution. Wouldn’t it be great if there was an answer that offers everything you need in one easy package? Say hello to Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA). Simply put, Cisco DNA is a new software-defined network that provides…

Recently I had the good fortune to be invited to address a Light Reading BCE audience in Austin, where the theme was the future of big networks. There was plenty of discussion, as you might imagine, about software defined networks/SDNs, network function virtualization (NFV) and artificial intelligen…

Years ago, I had to talk a tattoo artist friend of mine into inking my wrist with a bright green shamrock. For all my other tattoos, he never hesitated. For this one though, it came with a warning. “You realize companies may not hire you with a visible tattoo.” Two years later, I stumbled upon a job…

No one today would dispute the importance of information technology in the modern world. But as federal IT budgets shrink and the threat of persistent cyber adversaries increases, we are seeing a tension between the need to reduce IT procurement costs and the imperative to remain agile and vigilant…

The Catalyst 9000 series is a new family of enterprise switches we recently announced. The engineering team purpose built this switch for the new realities of the digital era delivering innovations in the areas of security, mobility, cloud, and IoT. We started out about two years ago wanting to buil…

Global mining leader Barrick Gold is at the forefront of digital transformation. The organization, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, is focused on becoming a 21st century company – a priority that drives Barrick Gold to integrate technology into everything they do. Look no further than Barrick’s re…