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My previous blogs have turned into a “in a world” series introducing the reader to the versatility of the Cisco Unified Computing System.  We are no strangers to the fact that data collection and data records are exploding.  The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to add a lot more data to our treasure trove.  As more objects are embedded with sensors and get the ability to communicate even more data will be collected and stored. Here at Cisco, we see the Internet of Everything (IoE), which goes beyond IoT when we add people, processes and information to the mix.  Cisco defines IoE as bringing together people, process, data, and things to make networked connections more relevant and valuable than ever before—turning information into actions that create new capabilities, richer experiences, and unprecedented economic opportunity for businesses, individuals, and countries.  Check out http://blogs.cisco.com/ioe/how-the-internet-of-everything-will-change-the-worldfor-the-better-infographic/

Clearly the Internet of everything (IoE) will affect the data center in many ways. In this video Cisco VP Satinder Sethi, gives us a perspective on some of the challenges and how Cisco is partnering with other IT companies to solve the problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTpJReLB8hA

Organizations can transform, mine or analyze the data collected to create new business models, improve business processes, and reduce costs and risks. The recent NSA scandal of tacking phone records indicates it can be used to improve physical security. Continue reading “Cisco UCS in a world with lotsa data”



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Today, I had the opportunity to speak with students of the Cisco Networking Academy. These students were selected to run the network at Cisco Live this year and run the Cisco Network Operations Center (NOC).

Cisco Networking Academy Dream Team at CiscoLive! 2013An innovative information and communications technology (ICT) education program, the Cisco Networking Academy provides a million students worldwide with the skills needed to design, build, manage and secure computer networks. This educations provides a pathway to ICT jobs, further education and globally-recognized industry certifications.

I’m very proud to say that many of the Networking Academy students are veterans. In fact, the Army at Fort Gordon, Georgia trains over 2,600 soldiers annually in its Networking Academy program. Continue reading “Cisco Networking Academy Fields Dream Team for Cisco Live!”



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Patrick Finn

No Longer at Cisco

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It is not new that people are referring to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) as Bring Your Own Malware (BYOM). In 2012 alone, Android malware encounters grew 2,577 percent (for details, see Cisco’s Annual Security Report). Many organizations are struggling to keep up with the BYOD trend by allowing employees to bring their favorite gadgets to the office to increase productivity and employee satisfaction. However, they are also struggling when trying to protect critical corporate assets, user’s data, and intellectual property in their employees’ mobile devices. Continue reading “BYOD: Many Call It Bring Your Own Malware (BYOM)”



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Omar Santos

Distinguished Engineer

Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) Security Research and Operations

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The HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule, released January 2013, introduced some significant changes and updates.  The 2012 HIPAA audits, performed by KPMG, concluded with some initial findings released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights, OCR.  These two events may impact how you govern your internal organization and network for patient privacy and protection of PHI.

Here are nine network considerations to address in the new HIPAA landscape.  I will discuss the first consideration in this blog.

  1. HIPAA Audits will continue
  2. The HIPAA Audit Protocol and NIST 800-66 are your best preparation
  3. Knowledge is a powerful weapon―know where your PHI is
  4. Ignorance is not bliss
  5. Risk Assessment drives your baseline
  6. Risk Management is continuous
  7. Security best practices are essential
  8. Breach discovery times: know your discovery tolerance
  9. Your business associate(s)must be tracked

Continue reading “1 of 9 HIPAA Network Considerations”



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Terri Quinn

Security Solutions Manager

Security Technology Group

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I’ve previously posted on “Why MPI is Good for You” (blog tag: why-mpi-is-good-for-you).  The short version is that it hides the typical application programmer from lots and lots of underlying network stuff; stuff that they really, really don’t want to be involved in.

Here’s another case study…

Cisco’s upcoming ultra-low latency MPI transport is implemented over an “unreliable” transport: raw Ethernet L2 frames. For latency reasons, it’s using the OpenFabrics verbs operating-system bypass API. These two facts mean that a) userspace is directly talking to the NIC hardware, and b) we don’t have a driver thread running down in the kernel that can service incoming frames regardless of what the MPI application is doing.

Continue reading “Why MPI is Good for You (part 3)”



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Jeff Squyres

The MPI Guy

UCS Platform Software

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When you think about the technology transitions that have happened in just the past 20 years and the number of connections that have been enabled, it’s truly mind boggling. The world wide web was just in its infancy in 1993. The first smartphone was introduced less than 10 years ago, and by 2012, that number had grown to one billion. Today, we have more than 10 billion connected devices. As the number of things connected to the network increases – from data, voice, video, and smart devices to new breeds of applications – the opportunities for new business value increase exponentially. The potential value at stake across private industries alone is estimated to exceed $14.4 trillion by 2022.

Continue reading “IoE – The Technology Transition of All Transitions”



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Jim Grubb

Chief Technology Evangelist

Cisco Customer Experience Center

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We’re moving quickly into the next phase of the Internet, and that space is being created by the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Open and broadly inclusive, the GENI research project is designing an updated replacement for the current Internet. A new frontier would include faster data speeds, new approaches to network security, and a wide range of new features and functionality. And because it’s open, this virtual laboratory offers opportunities for researchers to test new network strategies at scale, without disrupting Internet traffic. By taking “virtual slices” (entire virtual networks running on the same physical infrastructure), many different versions of a new Internet can operate in parallel.

So how are engineers playing in this digital sandbox?

Continue reading “The Next Generation of the Internet”



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John Tuohy

Senior Manager, Education Industry Marketing

Public Sector Marketing

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Last week I went to one of my favorite restaurants in San Francisco…. Swan Oyster.  It’s an old school “dive” with the authentic rustic ambience you would expect from a 100 year old SF oyster bar.  I waited in line for 2 HOURS for four reasons……well 3.8 reasons.  First, you can’t find fresher oysters anywhere, second; the smoked salmon on rye melts in your mouth and the 3.8th reason…. well, my mother in law loves it (that deserves more weight than 1 reason, so I gave 1.8)

So, why I’m a being a food critic at an event dedicated to IT, industrial and manufacturing professionals.  Well, I know you are constantly analyzing reasons to make the right decisions whether for your family, business or career. Even if they’re as mundane as determining if you should stand in line for 2 hours with you dear mother in law for a dozen oysters and a generous helping of smoked salmon on rye. So, I thought I would give you $14.4 Trillion (reasons!!!) to visit the IoT Pavilion (booth #1558) June 23-27 at Cisco Live in Orlando this year.

The Internet of Everything (IoE) will create opportunities to capture $14.4 trillion of value between 2013 – 2022.  Of which, $3.88 trillion (reasons!!) worth of value can be obtained from manufacturing and industrial industries.  That’s $3.88 trillion (reasons!!) of cost savings and revenue generation that can be realized by taking advantage of the IoE revolution!!!internet_of_things

What is IoE anyway?  Is it like the Y2000 hype…. absolutely not.

The Internet of Everything (IoE) connects people, processes, data, and things (IoT) to make networked connections more relevant and valuable than ever before creating new capabilities, richer experiences, and unprecedented economic opportunity.  IoE will be a disruptive force that radically transforms they way we create, build, deliver and experience every product and service we use today.

Every manufacturer will need to connect existing devices to the Internet for control monitoring, and intelligent decision analysis.  Previously unconnected devices will become smart objects and sensors connected seamlessly and securely throughout the enterprise. Applications that haven’t been identified will be created and enabled to drive operational excellence, improved asset utilization, supply chain agility, innovation, workforce productivity and increased customer satisfaction and acquisition.

The $14.4 trillion (reasons!!!) dwindle fairly quickly over time.  Manufacturers and industrial producers do not have long to develop and deploy the infrastructure required to take ADVANTAGE of the IoE revolution.  The challenge is that many of the things (IoT) deployed in industrial environments were built for very specific purposes, and due to lack of standards were developed with their own proprietary protocols.

These approaches and strategies produce highly complex and costly infrastructures that do not scale or provide the flexibility to capture the $14.4 trillion value form IoE.

But there’s good news…….

Continue reading “14.4 Trillion (Reasons!!) To Visit Booth #1558 At 2013 CiscoLIve!”



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Kevin Davenport

Cisco’s Global Solutions Manager

Industrial Intelligence

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We’re excited to showcase Unified Management solutions in the Data Center and Cloud booth at Cisco Live Orlando this week!

There are a wide variety of opportunities to meet and engage with Data Center and Cloud Management experts at Cisco Live, and learn about the latest developments in data center management and automation software solutions.

Make it easy on yourself and download the Unified Management @ Cisco Live At-a-Glance for a daily guide to the breakout and theater sessions, demos, keynotes and customer events you don’t want to miss.

Data center and cloud management solutions will be featured in over 20 breakout sessions, track sessions, and keynotes. See below for examples:

10+ breakout sessions on Cisco UCS Director (formerly Cloupia), Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud, Cisco Prime Service Catalog (formerly Cisco Service Portal), Cisco Prime Network Services Controller (formerly VNMC), and others

2 Cisco on Cisco, Inside Cisco IT sessions and 2 IT Management Track sessions on Cisco IT’s Private Cloud and eStore / BYOD initiatives using Unified Management software

2 Tomorrow’s Cloud Program sessions with Jamie Lerner of CSMTG on Orchestrating & Automating Tomorrow’s Cloud and Rebecca Jacoby providing a CIO’s View on ITaaS

2 Keynote mentions, with Rob Lloyd highlighting UCS Director as well as our SAP IT Process Automation and David Yen providing an overview of Unified Management

View more Unified Management sessions and abstracts here.

You’ll find demos of Unified Management software in many locations throughout the World of Solutions Expo, including:

Cisco Data Center and Cloud booth

◦       Cisco UCS Central and UCS Manager

◦       Cisco UCS Director (formerly Cloupia) – Converged Infrastructure Management

◦       Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (IAC) – Cloud Management Multi-Cloud and DevOps Solution Accelerators – Cisco IAC + OpenStack, Puppet, Chef

◦       Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) and Next-Generation Unified Fabric

◦       Cisco Nexus 1000V InterCloud – with Cisco Prime Network Services Controller

◦       Big Data – with Cisco UCS and Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler (TES)

Cisco Prime booth 

◦       Cisco Prime Service Catalog (formerly newScale)

◦       Cisco Prime Network Services Controller (formerly VNMC)

Cisco IT booth

◦       Cisco eStore (powered by Cisco Prime Service Catalog)

◦       Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure Services (powered by Cisco IAC)

Cisco ONE – Intelligent Programmable Networks booth 

◦       SAP IT Process Automation (ITPA) by Cisco – with SAP HANA and onePK

See what our partners and customers have to say:

NetApp and VCE booths 

◦       Featuring Cisco UCS Director (formerly Cloupia) in the NetApp booth

◦       Featuring Cisco UCS Director and Cisco IAC in the VCE booth

Windstream demo pod in Data Center and Cloud booth

◦       Cisco IAC + Vblock service provider customer

Other ecosystem partners

◦       Cloud Cruiser (financial management and Cisco IAC) and MapR (Hadoop and Cisco TES)

Cisco Campus

 

In addition to the demonstrations, we’ll have several theater presentations in the World of Solutions including:

Continue reading “Data Center and Cloud Management at Cisco Live Orlando, 2013”