software
Virtualization: Can We Deconstruct the Problem and Opportunity?
This was the title of a November 19 2013 panel that I had moderated in Washington D.C. at the MPLS-SDN Isocore Conference. The abstract for this conference was designed to be a bit provocative, specifically: “ Virtualization as a concept is not new. However, in the context of Software Defined Networ…
Cisco IT Streamlines Big Data Operations with Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
Like many IT organizations, Cisco’s internal IT department is deploying Big Data solutions to mine the ever-increasing data in-flow from a wide range of sources – and thus gain competitive advantage and insights. The typical environment includes an ecosystem of different tools and data sources that…
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Composite Software
Big data and cloud are drastically changing today’s IT landscape. The proliferation of traditional and new data sources plus the movement of data to the cloud complicate a company’s ability to access all of its data assets. This creates an important need to complement traditional data warehousing by…
A Quantum Leap Forward for Policy
Cisco validates new performance benchmarks: linear scale-out to 250K transactions-per-second with 75M concurrent sessions Earlier this week Cisco introduced a number of new mobile internet innovations to help service providers deliver new and more personalized connected experiences. The mobile Inter…
Duct Tape for Cloud: Integration Features of Cisco Process Orchestrator and IA for Cloud
The Cisco Process Orchestrator has very rich integration capabilities, yet we often hear the question, “Does it integrate with…” or “Does it work with” [insert product]. The Cisco Process Orchestrator is a primary component in the Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud…
Shelly’s onePK “Wiring” App
This blog is a follow on to my introductions to onePK and the onePK software architecture. This post is special, as I have the pleasure of introducing, by way of conversation, my colleague Shelly Cadora, an experienced speaker on SDN, and developer with onePK, and to highlight some of the work she h…
Real-World M2M—and a Real-World Mobile Data Challenge
In the months since I attended the Smart Cities event organized by Qualcomm and CommNexus in San Diego, the buzz about “Smart Cities” and the use of machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless technologies has only grown louder and more intense. Which Smart City-relevant innovations are under development insi…
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