innovation

March 22, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Digital Manufacturing Drives Innovation at Daimler Trucks

Co-Authored by Joe Kann, Rockwell Automation Innovative manufacturers are realizing the value of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) by mapping out use cases that translate to immediate business value and outcomes. In fact, manufacturing represents the largest global industry with “digital val…

March 10, 2016

CLOUD

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Kubernetes as First Project

Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that their first project accepted is Kubernetes. This is an important initial milestone as this represents the first core functional component of a CNCF solution.  There will me more core functional components to come as the TOC is busy a…

Cisco @SXSW Interactive: Where Inclusion is the New Innovation

  In today’s hyper-fast, hyper-competitive digital age, it’s increasingly clear from talking with customers and partners that leading companies must share and leverage each other’s best practices. No single company – no matter how big and successful – can navigate today’s mass digitization of b…

March 3, 2016

INNOVATION

Fog Boosts Capabilities to Add More Things Securely to the Internet

Today, host-based security mechanisms and cloud-based security services are our primary means to secure endpoints. However, these methods alone will fall short for meeting the security challenges in the emerging Internet of Things, where we must support a significantly larger number of endpoints, ma…

February 25, 2016

INNOVATION

Co-Innovation Juices Overflowed at Cisco Live! Berlin

During Cisco Live! in Berlin last week, 43,320 oranges were squeezed to fuel the creative juices of customers, partners and developers who converged to co-innovate around the Internet of Things. That’s a lot of orange juice! And what a smashing success! With more than 12,000 attendees and hundreds o…

February 17, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Hey Mobile Operators: “It’s Time to Network Like the Big Guys, Innovate Like a Startup”

Here we go, Mobile World Congress is fast approaching with about 100,000 attendees descending on Barcelona next week. The big focus this year is said to be around 5G, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and virtualization. So on those themes Cisco recently hosted a Cisco Knowledge Network Session with Heavy R…

February 2, 2016

INNOVATION

Life after an Innovation Center

Cisco Innovation Centers are where start-ups, accelerators, developers, researchers, ecosystem partners and the venture community come together to create ground-breaking technology and innovative solutions for the future. We have nine of them around the world, and we wanted to share a little insight…

January 29, 2016

DATA CENTER

From desktop to Data Center…changing the game with graphics

What if you were able to give everyone in your organization the flexibility and freedom to securely work anywhere in the world and on any device? What types of productivity gains would your company see as a result? What efficiencies or cost savings might your IT department receive from moving deskto…

January 25, 2016

CLOUD

2016 Prediction #1 – Production Application Development and Deployment Rapidly Transforming to Microservices Architect …

As I look back on 2015 and the great effort of the Mantl.io and CiscoShipped.io teams, I am reminded of the efforts I had in the initial cloud computing efforts 8 years ago. The buzz and market interest in cloud computing then was not accepted by traditional hosting and telecommunications companies.…