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With a tap, Lyft can take you to where you need to go in just a few minutes. Car companies like Audi are using virtual reality to give you a test drive of their latest models. Amazon Prime Now can deliver groceries to your door step within two hours. Social media tools like ConnectedHQ automatically…

It can be easy to get lost in all the superlatives of these recent announcements…they can border on hyperbole.  It is important to remember that much of the recent Intuitive Network, New Era of Networking announcement is purposefully taking the long view.  DO NOT miss the fact that there is a…

In order to react faster in a world of accelerating change, the winners of the digital economy must evolve their enterprise networks. And nowhere is this need to change more apparent than at the network edge. The edge is where you deliver transformative applications and services to your users. It’s…

What if the world’s leading mobile devices communicated at a deeper, more trusting level with the world’s leading corporate networks? That was the question that Apple and Cisco asked themselves when they announced their new partnership last year. Their answer: a faster, more engaging user experienc…

“Location, location, location.” It’s no longer just the rallying cry of the real estate industry. Today, businesses of all stripes are tracking the location of smartphones—presumably attached to people roaming their stores, facilities and offices—to gain critical insights into how, when, and why the…

As many of you may already know, we do a ‘live workshop’ as a companion to every TechWiseTV episode we release.  These workshops are NOT using video at all..but they do feature a solid hour of demos, explanations and two-way Q&A with some of the best engineers in Cisco. The recent show we did on…

Same battle, different day: Our branch offices demand speedy access to the same flexible capabilities as everyone back at corporate—mobility, BYOD, guest Wi-Fi, cloud services—but they don’t have corporate’s expertise or the space to run full security operations. Speed, flexibility, costs, and secur…

Running an efficient, secure data center today is a bit like running an obstacle course in the dark. Except, on this course, someone keeps moving the obstacles and adding more track. In any given moment, we really can’t know for sure what’s going on in the data center. SDN, virtualization, container…

I love buffets.  (Especially when they are all you can eat). But what I really like is the ability to choose what and how much I want. This is where I know that the use of cloud services will become useful. When we don’t have to make an ‘either/or’ decision. How work gets done has…