#NetworkIntuitive

If you’re a Cisco Services partner, then I hope to see you at Cisco Live in Orlando! Cisco Live has evolved into a conference with programs designed to connect our growing community of ecosystem partners with our Cisco Services partners. Whether you have an existing services practice or are looking…

“Evolution requires us to continually refresh our competitive advantage. Sometimes in major cataclysms. Sometimes in dribs and drabs. Innovate forever, in other words, is neither a slogan nor an aspiration. It is a requirement.” – Geoffrey A. Moore, author of Dealing with Darwin: How Great Com…

We spend a lot of time talking about Wi-Fi coverage, SD-WAN tunneling, switching redundancy, etc., but the true measure of quality isn’t a perfectly deployed network… it’s an excellent user experience. As with all things, it’s often more difficult to diagnose the problem than to fix it. With more an…

As WAN network administrators, we have all run into that situation where a business group wants to roll out a new service, and we realize there is not enough bandwidth available in many of our locations. It then typically will take 90 – 120 days to add new bandwidth and then hours of dealing w…

The transportation industry is undergoing unprecedented disruption that we read about in news every day.  Several companies are envisioning how transportation of humans and cargo will work in the future – from self-driving cars to magnetic levitation trains. Due to this renewed technology-driven reb…

If you live in the US and have been watching any of the Winter Olympics coverage on NBC, you may have seen the amazing ads celebrating the women taking part in the games. Many of the spots are sponsored by companies such as P&G, AT&T, USAA, Verizon, and NBC Universal and they are broadcast m…

In his blog Future IT: The Who, How, What, and Why, our CIO, Guillermo Diaz, describes how our IT organization can keep operations running smoothly while also becoming a machine of continuous innovation. The short story: the best people and teams will work in dynamic and agile ways to drive continuo…

I’ve been working in the technology industry for three decades, and there’s never been a more complex—or exciting—time to be in IT. The complexity is self-evident: A large global enterprise might have hundreds of thousands of devices from different vendors, running a variety of proprietary and semi-…

When the telephone rings in the IT department, you can bet there’s an unhappy user on the other end. “I can’t connect.” “My app won’t load.” “The network keeps kicking me off.” “The wireless has been flakey for two weeks.” The only thing more certain than dissatisfied users is a frustrated IT depart…