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You need to provide safe network access before allowing employees to bring their own devices to work
Almost every small company is experiencing the phenomenon referred to as “the consumerization of IT.” If you were the first in your office to log into your company’s network with your smartphone, you may even have been leading the charge. As more and more employees follow the “bring your own devices” trend (BYOD, for short) to work, you need to figure out how to give them remote access to the company network while keeping corporate data and personal information separate and secure.
In general, the BYOD movement is good for employers, even though people are using devices that aren’t necessarily provided by the company. Employers want to find ways to accommodate their employees’ desire to access their work email and other applications whenever and from whatever device they’re using, such as tablets and smartphones. That usually means that employers need to make some changes to the access policies. As an employer, you need to have network access policies with visibility and control over every device and application; and the user has to follow some rules to protect critical company data when accessing the network remotely.
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Tags: bring_your_own_devices, byod, remote_access, small business
June 24, 2012 at 11:13 am PST
Education leaders from around the world are using the Cisco Connected Learning Experience to transform teaching and learning, improve student outcomes and enhance administrative efficiency. That’s why we say that Cisco’s true value is not in what we make, it’s in what we make possible.
Cisco is pleased to present a series of free online learning sessions, June 25-27, that showcase how schools are using interactive video technologies to create engaging, collaborative learning experiences for students. These sessions will be streamed live from the Cisco Connected Classroom at the ISTE 2012 Conference, Just visit the Cisco Show and Share video portal at the indicated date and time to view your sessions.
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Tags: 21st century learning environment, edreform, edtech, education, flippedclassroom, ISTE, ISTE12
June 23, 2012 at 4:36 am PST
In prior blog posts, I’ve talked about the implications of registered memory for both MPI applications and implementations.
Here’s another fun implication that was discovered within the last few months by Nathan Hjelm and Samuel Gutierrez out at Los Alamos National Labs: registered memory imbalances.
As an interesting side note: as far as we can tell, no other MPI implementation attempts to either balance registered memory between MPI processes, or handle the performance implications that occur with grossly imbalanced registered memory consumption.
Let’s review a few key points before defining what registered memory imbalances are.
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Tags: HPC, mpi, NUMA, RDMA
By Howard Baldwin, Contributing Columnist
If you look at a digest of broadband news — as I frequently do in search of story ideas — it’s clear that broadband adoption is taking off. Google search a country name and “broadband,” and you’re more than likely to get an article proclaiming that its government, grasping the economic value of high-speed connectivity, is funding, or considering funding deployment to serve both its urban and rural citizens.
With more countries making that commitment, the world is truly creating what Cisco calls the borderless network.
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Tags: Borderless Networks, broadband, democracy, education, employment, talent
As hospitality professionals prepare to attend the 2012 Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC®), the world’s largest hospitality technology exposition and conference in Baltimore at the end of this month, it is exciting to anticipate the emerging mobile-enabled technology and trends that will be on display and discussed during the event.
Throughout the conference, Cisco will discuss with partners, customers and industry professionals about the impact of wireless demand on hotels and how different platforms such as smartphones, tablets, and other devices are impacting how hoteliers reach guests. If there is one rule in the hospitality industry, it’s that a positive guest experience is paramount and during the conference, Cisco’s Chief Technology Officer, Bob Friday, and John Bollen, vice president of technology with MGM Resorts International will be speaking about how mobile technology can do just that. In a speaking session titled, “Take on the Wide World of Mobile, Platform by Platform” on Monday, June 25th at 2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m, the duo will discuss how to build an infrastructure that works with guests’ wide-range of bandwidth and device needs and offers guests the option to connect their personal electronics to your equipment and networks in the resort. If you will be in attendance at HITEC, I encourage you to attend this session.
Building off of the mobility conversation will be the solutions featured in the GUESTROOM 20X, a model guestroom featuring the latest and near-future technologies for the modern hotel room. As the patron sponsor of the GUESTROOM 20X, Cisco will be displaying two Cisco Connected Hospitality solutions that enable mobile hospitality and transform the way guests experience a hotel property. These solutions are mobile hospitality and travel applications that can run on any device including Meridian by Spotlight Mobile, an indoor location-sensing system application enabled by Cisco’s Mobility Services Engine and SuiteLinq, a digital media platform application accessed through Cisco’s high-speed wireless connectivity portfolio.
The Cisco Connected Hospitality solutions featured at HITEC don’t end at GUESTROOM 20X. During the conference, Cisco will be showcasing how digital signage can enhance the guest experience through an interactive kiosk on the show room floor and hosting hands-on demos of the Edge 300 in the Cisco Business Suite. The Edge 300, part of Cisco’s Small Business line of network solutions, is a portfolio of affordable managed switches that provides a reliable foundation for your business network and is ideal for small hotels.
These mobile solutions are indicative of just what is possible in a future hotel room. And as we prepare to attend HITEC and discuss how mobility is shaping the hospitality industry, it is clear that the time to start planning for tomorrow’s hotel is now.
