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In today’s world, applications mean (among many others) business, entertainment, education, news and, of course… profit. There are entire new businesses created from applications, and…. there are entire existing businesses surviving through applications. Did you know that according to Statista there…

Virtual Reality (VR) is starting to disrupt all manner of industries. From Construction to Healthcare, Financial Services to Formula One. It’s one of the cooler technology innovations to happen of late. The value of VR is clearly measurable, with early adopters gaining competitive advantage and crea…

You may have read the many ways Cisco encourages its employees to give back throughout the year. Most notoriously, this is done through the Time2Give initiative which provides employees 5 days every calendar year to give back to ways that are most important to them in both their local communities, a…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides numerous benefits to customers, allowing companies to be more responsive, available, and cost-efficient. It also provides a number of security capabilities, including strong identity and access management, granular activity logs, and strong policy enforcement. Howe…

The modern workforce is highly distributed – more users, devices, locations. Applications are more decentralized across multiple clouds and data centers.  The security perimeter has greatly expanded; more difficult to protect. A large business opportunity awaits the service provider – how will you g…

I’m writing this on a Sunday.  I do some of my best writing on Sundays, going back to before I knew how to write. On late Sunday mornings, after Church, I would sit at the school desk my Grandma had set up in a covered area of her patio, close to her kitchen.  She and I could carry on a conver…

Asking a rancher how many head of cattle he has, is like asking someone how much money they make – it’s simply not a polite question to ask!  Of course, asking them how they use technology to manage their heard(s) and/or optimize their farms and you may be surprised by the answers you receive!…

Last week in Las Vegas, I attended my fourth Cisco Partner Summit, where I was able to see some of our big announcements firsthand. In case you missed Partner Summit, we covered all the news in our Partner Blogs.  You can review our posts on: Leading New Customer Value Together, which focused on ou…

Not so long ago, Cisco marketers were occasionally known to despair at the number of legacy systems that were housing old or disparate customer data points. So many systems with so many different data formats seemed too overwhelming a task to make it into something meaningful. Today, our Marketing o…