IoT
Ask The #InternetOfEverything Futurist: “How Will Emerging Technology Preserve and Enhance the Past?”
In my role as Cisco’s Chief Futurist, I get many questions about what the future holds and how new technology and emerging solutions will change our lives. Be sure to check out previous Ask the #InternetOfEverything Futurist blogs and videos about the advances of battery technology, future of smartp…
Girls Among the Geeks: Why Women Should Absolutely Seek Careers in Tech
Choosing a career in technology turned out to be one of the best decisions of my life. At one time, however, it seemed counterintuitive to enter such a male-dominated industry. I’m not an engineer. I don’t have a degree in computer science. The only traditional tech skill I possessed was…
What Does IoT Mean to You?
A few weeks ago I started to prepare my session for the great meeting of the minds at Cisco Live in San Francisco. I have to confess that at the beginning it felt a bit weird creating a presentation about Internet of Things (IoT), a market that is targeting Operational Technology (OT) decision-maker…
Attending Cisco Live US 2014? Five good reasons to check out BRKEVT-2311!
IP Video Surveillance is one of the most important applications for companies today since real time video surveillance and analytics can be used not only to protect the business, people and assets, but it can also be used as the eyes, ears and memory of the business to improve decision making and op…
Introducing Clara Alvarado to the Energy Blog
It is with great pleasure I introduce you to another industry and technology thought-leader from Cisco, Clara Alvarado. Clara Alvarado is Cisco’s Solutions Marketing Manager for Applications Enablement and Management portfolio for the Internet of Things group, with an industry bias towards Oil and G…
The Need for a New IT Model: Fast IT and the Convergence of Mobility and Cloud for IoE
Guess what? Convergence is happening again, and it’s happening at a faster pace with more profound implications than I have never seen before. Those of us who’ve been in the industry a long time have seen convergence happen over the years across various technologies and areas of IT. This time, we’r…
The Extended Network Requires Security That’s the Same, Only Different
When I was in grade school, my best friend had a favorite saying whenever he disagreed with somebody’s observation that two things were really similar. “It’s the same, only different,” he would quip. Though this phrase was mostly intended to be flippant and evoke an emotional response from the recip…
Wearable to Aware-able: Contact, Connection, Context
This two-part blog series discusses the future of wearables and mobility in an #InternetOfEverything world. Since the dawn of time, humans have been motivated by an innate desire to be connected to each other and to information. Today, we are seeing this need satisfied as the Internet of Everything…
Announcing Open Submissions for the IoT Innovation Grand Challenge!
At the recent IoT World Forum Steering Committee meeting one of the topics that came up again and again was innovation – the need for innovation in business models, the need for innovation in our lives as the Internet of Everything approaches, and the need for innovation with developing the “things”…
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