NASA

July 17, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

How NASA Taught Me to Shoot for the Stars – and Land at Cisco

What are some “Nice to have” options for your work environment? A great office – perhaps, flexible hours and plenty of career opportunities. Now think of what is on your “Non-negotiable” list. For me, that’s a supporting manager, competitive benefits and making a difference. And I’m not the only on…

September 25, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 20: Joshua McKenty, Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Chew on this: Joshua McKenty started OpenStack at NASA. That’s right—started OpenStack at NASA. Then he started Piston, a company that sold an OpenStack distribution, which Cisco eventually bought. Now he works as the Field CTO at Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and boy does he have a lot of interesting thin…

September 10, 2015

INNOVATION

Drones: Just Buzz or Real Business?

“Why Cisco?” I was asked repeatedly after speaking on a panel about drones. “Why not Cisco?” was my passionate response. The occasion was the recent NASA UTM Convention at Silicon Valley’s historic Moffett Field to explore creative traffic management solutions for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), po…

July 3, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

The Balance Between Technology and Humanity is Fueling Technology’s Popularity

We are living in arguably the most exciting time in human history, and I’m mesmerized by how fast our world is evolving thanks to brilliant technologies and the sheer volume of inanimate objects that are connecting to the internet on a daily basis, forming the internet of everything (IoE). As much a…