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I didn’t quite appreciate it, however over the years, I’ve become a data center geek!  My job doesn’t involved working daily in a data center, but when I do get to visit one, I find the facilities and energy design principles and practices employed absolutely fascinating! I jumped, then, when I had…

Virtual Network Function (VNF) Test and Validation initiatives are being touted by many vendors at the moment. Service providers have been challenged with the interoperability, scale and performance of the early generation VNFs.   There should be no question on whether software VNFs should be “…

Enterprise software licensing is complex, costly and easy to lose track of, especially in these days of servers on demand via infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and rapid setup and movement of virtual machines.  Many organizations are finding that vendor software audits uncover under-licensing resul…

What a couple of weeks it’s been for sports fans! In addition to the historic ending to the NFL’s Big Game, two of the four major professional sports leagues in the U.S. rolled out the red carpet for their annual All-Star Games in recent weeks – the NFL Pro Bowl took place in Orlando, FL, while the…

It should come as no surprise that in today’s digital world, every industry is being affected and changed by new technologies and innovations. The sports and entertainment world is no different, and in fact is one of the top three industries projected to be most influenced by digital disruption (Sou…

Over 30 years ago, I had the opportunity to serve as a Community Service Officer (CSO) in the UCLA Police Department.  The CSO program allows students to participate in the UCLA campus safety, serving as additional “eyes and ears”. We helped out as field escorts, hospital and resident ha…

What’s the impact of inclusion? What does it mean to someone who’s been left out to be welcomed in?  For a 10-year old with cancer, to be able to continue attending the school she loves while getting lifesaving treatment hundreds of miles away – it means everything. To 5th grader Peyton Walton and h…

Four years ago when I came to Cisco, I had an “aha” moment about video. Cisco had created incredible technology that shrinks the distance between people, but it was bottled up in the boardroom; I wanted to get it in the hands of everyone. It was an exciting goal. It felt urgent and important. Then I…

For the athletes competing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the global event served as the culmination of years of hard work, dedication and sacrifice. Likewise, for the Cisco Rio 2016 team, the Olympic and Paralympic Games represent more than three years of dedication and 34,000 engineering hours to…