ATA 2013

Cisco had a great show at the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Meeting and Tradeshow in Austin Texas, May 5-7, demonstrating market leading solutions that overcome the barrier of distance while improving the patient experience.

The problem of monitoring patient rooms can be supported by Cisco platform solution with easy to use features and capabilities found in Cisco Virtual Patient Observation solution.  The solution can accommodate needs ranging from basic, to enhanced, to advanced features such as work flow integration, to support a flexible range of needs for usage and policies of hospitals.   The solution is easy to use and provides for patient privacy needs, while increasing efficiency.  In these short youtube videos, Ray Cooke, Cisco Director Advanced Services, and Matt Tyler with Wachter, a Cisco partner demonstrate Cisco Virtual Patient Observation solution at the ATA 2013 conference, Austin, Texas.  Demo Part 2,  Part 3:

For more information please visit http://www.cisco.com/go/healthcaresecurity

Our executives David Plummer and Barbara Casey delivered two great presentations.

Selling Abroad: Companies Making an Impact in the International Market
David W. Plummer, General Manager, Cisco HealthPresence

Market Watch: Not All Telehealth Markets are Equal
Barbara Casey, Senior Executive Director, Cisco Healthcare Business Transformation

You can learn more about the Cisco Virtual Patient Observation solution for healthcare by clicking here, and Cisco Cisco Care-at-a-Distance solutions for telehealth by clicking here.

Matt Tyler, Cisco Partner from Wachter  demonstrates Virtual Patient Observation Solution at ATA 2013.     A few more photos from ATA 2013

Virtual Patient Observation

Cisco at ATA 2013

Virtual Patient Observation

Tags: ATA 2013, Cisco Physical Security, Cisco Virtual Patient Observation Solution

Jerry Bruckheimer, one of the world’s most successful and innovative film producers. Bruckheimer is using Cisco TelePresence to change the collaboration game in Hollywood by bringing on-set and remote directors, editors, and talent together to produce award winning films.

In Bruckheimer’s upcoming film Lone Ranger, he took Cisco TelePresence EX90s behind the scenes to help with movie production. Armed with life-like, instantaneous video collaboration, Bruckheimer was able to review film dailies with editors and post-production staff in Los Angeles while he was on-set in New Mexico. Once location shooting had wrapped, several more units played an important role in post-production.

Learn more about how Jerry is using collaboration to innovate by reading the full blog: Collaborations Innovators: Jerry Bruckheimer Is Redefining Collaboration in Hollywood And Puts TelePresence in the Spotlight.

James

Tags: Cisco TelePresence, collaboration, Jerry Bruckheimer, Lone Ranger, TelePresence

Update 2 5/9/2013:

Microsoft has released a “Microsoft fix it” as a temporary mitigation for this issue on systems which require IE8. At this time, multiple sites have been observed hosting pages which exploit this vulnerability. Users of IE8 who cannot update to IE9+ are urged to apply the Fix It immediately.

Update 5/6/2013:

An exploit for this bug is now publicly available within the metasploit framework. Users of the affected browser should consider updating to IE9+ or using a different browser until a patch is released. Given the nature of this vulnerability additional exploitation is likely.

At the end of April a Watering Hole–style attack was launched from a United States Department of Labor website. Many are theorizing that this attack may have been an attempt to use one compromised organization to target another. Visitors to specific pages hosting nuclear-related content at the Department of Labor website were also receiving malicious content loaded from the domain dol.ns01.us. Initially it appeared that this attack used CVE-2012-4792 to compromise vulnerable machines; however, Microsoft is now confirming that this is indeed a new issue. This issue is being designated CVE-2013-1347 and is reported to affect all versions of Internet Explorer 8.

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Cisco’s server power engineering team recently compared the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis with B200 M3 blade servers against HP’s BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure and HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blade servers.

The results weren’t surprising internally, but they might surprise you. The main findings were:

Efficiency
The Cisco UCS 5108 enclosure configured with Cisco UCS B200 M3 blades achieved a 6.3% higher performance-to-power ratio than the HP BladeSystem c7000 with HP ProLiant BL460c blades, using with similarly configured hardware, BIOS, and OS settings.
At a 70% target load, the Cisco UCS blade solution consumed 6.5% less power than the HP ProLiant blade solution.
Power
At the maximum target load, the Cisco UCS blade solution consumed 192 watts (W), or 7.2% less power, than the equivalently configured HP BladeSystem solution.
The Cisco UCS blade solution consumed 167 watts, or 17.4% less power, while idle than the equivalently configured HP BladeSystem solution: a difference equivalent to the power consumed by three idle HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blades.
Including the power consumed by a pair of redundant Fabric Interconnects, the Cisco UCS blade solution consumes less power than an equivalent HP BladeSystem solution.

The complete results are posted on Cisoc.com (link to download the entire white paper) so that you can replicate the results independently.

What are our customers saying about their power and cooling savings? See my previous blog post “Cisco UCS Servers – Watts driving your power and cooling costs?”

How much could you save by switching to UCS?

Would you like to learn more about how Cisco UCS can help you? There are more than 250 published datacenter case studies on Cisco.com. Additionally, there is a TCO/ROI tool that will allow you to compare your existing environment to a new UCS Solution. For a more in-depth TCO/ROI analysis, contact your Cisco partner.

Tags: B200, power, UCS

Did you know that we now have a new webinar portal that holds registration pages for upcoming webinars AND on demand links for any webinars you missed all in ONE place?

http://www.cisco.com/go/talkandlearn

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