Year: 2013

January 10, 2013 Leave a Comment
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WEBINAR: Enabling High-Performance Trading Alpha: Beyond Low Latency to Sustained Performance

As global financial markets become more interconnected and diverse, trading environments have become increasingly dynamic and responsive to real-time conditions. It is important for participants across the trading value chain to capture new business opportunities while reducing risks associated with today’s financial markets.

Register today for our complimentary 60-minute Webinar on, Jan. 22 at 11:30 a.m. ET, hosted by Wall Street & Technology, to discover how a High-Performance Trading Fabric architecture and new innovations like Cisco Algo-Boost and the Cisco Nexus 3548 can help financial firms address challenges and capture opportunities in today’s financial markets.

Join our roundtable executives: Alex Tabb, Partner, TABB Group; Paul Jameson, Senior Director, Financial Services, Cisco; and Dave Malik, Senior Director, Solutions Architecture, Cisco Advanced Services.

The roundtable will discuss: Continue reading “WEBINAR: Enabling High-Performance Trading Alpha: Beyond Low Latency to Sustained Performance”

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Colleen Crafton

Americas Lead

Financial Services Industry Marketing

January 9, 2013 Leave a Comment
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The Year Ahead in the Classroom – Wherever the Classroom May Be…

After a well deserved break and perhaps a bit of indulgence over the holidays, we are now back to the books and looking ahead at what 2013 has in store for education.

Last year we watched as school districts embraced mobile learning and universities relied more on collaborative technologies. Those that took the leap and accepted new tools and educational models were rewarded with improved student performance, accelerated partnerships and more.

With a landmark year for education technology behind us, now is the time to harness the momentum and drive innovation forward in 2013. So as we slither into the year of the snake, here are four high impact trends worth watching:

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Kerry Best

Marketing Manager

Public Sector Marketing

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Customer Insight: Automotive Dealership Group saves $100,000 annually with Cisco Unified Data Center Solutions

Are you in the market for a new car in this year? Automotive retailers compete for your business in one of the most competitive industries, so reducing infrastructure and operating costs is key to selling you a car at the price you want.

Hendrick Automotive Group is the second largest privately held automotive retailer in the US, with 7,000 employees and 80 dealerships. Watch the 3:39 minute video for more information on how Hendrick is running every mission critical application on UCS, saving more than $100,000 annually, and helping the IT department become a profit center while offering superior service to both their employees and customers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-v67MwzHHA

You can read the entire story here, Hendrick Automotive Group

A Better Data Center with Cisco UCS

What’s been your experience with consolidation and virtualization in your data center?  Are planning to use UCS in your data center? Join the conversation.

>> Interested in reading UCS customer success stories in your region?  Read more at Data Center Case Studies

>> Yes, Cisco UCS servers are really that good, Read Bill Shield’s blog

>> To find out more about Cisco Unified Data Center solutions,

go to: www.cisco.com/go/dc and Cisco Unified Computing Systems at www.cisco.com/go/ucs.

 

 

 

 

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Carol Shottes

Marketing Manager

Marketing

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I Got 99 Problems But Application Visibility Ain’t One

Do you have trouble viewing, controlling, and troubleshooting the causes of poor end-user application experience?

You may be suffering from low application visibility in your network, a side-effect of the flood of devices pouring into your workplace, the phenomenon commonly known as BYOD.

Symptoms include: difficulty prioritizing mission-critical applications and subflows, incorrect network capacity planning, overloaded bandwidth, network downtime, poor quality of experience for users, and major headache for IT.

Luckily for you, Cisco has Application Visibility & Control (AVC) for Wireless!

Cisco AVC solves all the problems of low application visibility and more with its integrated suite of Cisco technologies, including Network-Based Application Recognition 2 (NBAR2) and NetFlow version 9. NBAR2 can identify more than 1000 applications and support application categorization, with the ability to update the protocol definition; while NetFlow version 9 selects and exports data of interest, allowing for easy consumption of application performance statistics by Cisco and third-party management tools.

Check out this short 2 minute video on the basics of AVC:

For more information, check out Cisco AVC for Wireless

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Vivian Chan

January 8, 2013 Leave a Comment
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Cisco Behind the Scenes of AT&T’s New “Digital Life”

chowjBy Joe Chow, VP, Connected Devices, Cisco Service Provider Video Technology Group

Today Cisco announced the launch of a UL-certified, all-digital, wireless-based home security and automation service with AT&T Digital Life. Cisco built and will provide the Digital Life control panel and back-office provisioning and applications life-cycle management system, which allows customers to monitor, protect and manage their homes using a smartphone, tablet or PC. It launches in eight markets in March, and up to 50 by year-end. While broadband provider agnostic, the service uses AT&T’s nationwide wireless network.

The Digital Life controller uses five radios to control and manage appliances, lighting, and HVAC; remotely lock or unlock doors; even detect water leaks. In addition to the five radios, the controller includes an Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) software framework, Home Plug AV (to communicate with connected IP devices over the home power network), 24-hour backup, and advanced diagnostics. Continue reading “Cisco Behind the Scenes of AT&T’s New “Digital Life””

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David Yates

as Director of Service Provider Video Marketing at Cisco

SP360

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Cisco NRF 2013 – Preview of Store-in-a-Box – Cisco Lean Retail Approach Demonstration

This is our sixth preview of what Cisco will be showcasing at the 102nd National Retail Federation Convention and Expo on January 14 and 15, 2013 in New York City.

Today’s retail stores need be more technology enabled than ever before supporting new generation of shoppers that expect a convergence of physical and digital experiences.  Today’s retail information technology teams need to enable mobility, cloud computing and video technologies to create a create a compelling shopping environment.

In our store in a box demonstration, we will demonstrate how Cisco can help you consolidate in-store servers to increases business agility and reduce operating costs. In our simulated in-store environment, we will demonstrate how we can support in a single chassis: routing, switching, a virtualized point-of-sale application on unified computing, unified workspace for store reporting, physical security with video surveillance and in store wireless access.

With this lean and agile platform, retailers can support today and tomorrow’s technology needs in a cost effective manner.

Please watch this video about the Store-in-a-Box demonstration and then mark your calendar to join us at Cisco Booth #252 at NRF 2013.

I look forward to seeing you there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKvnSG7LGLU

 

 

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Kenneth Leung

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Social Learning Communities Keep Users Engaged and Growing

Many organizations and education institutions entering the New Year are seeking significant changes in instructional models and improvements in employee skills to achieve 2013 organization goals. Social Learning Communities have emerged as a primary strategy to achieve these goals.

Check out this short video about how social learning can remove barriers caused by space, place and time, while increasing collaboration and results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhV_ljV-v88

35 percent of organizations are actively encouraging and making time for social and informal learning, and 52 percent of organizations are unblocking and leveraging social networks to support learning, according to a recent study.

Continue reading “Social Learning Communities Keep Users Engaged and Growing”

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Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn

Vice President and General Manager

Cisco Services

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From Internet Video Consumers, a Call for Content

lizdebskBy Leszek Izdebski, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG)

These days, professionally produced video can be accessed through a dizzying array of hardware and delivery choices. But which concerns are top of mind for typical video consumers?

To better understand the dramatic changes in the consumption of professionally produced video, Cisco IBSG surveyed 1,152 U.S. broadband consumers between the ages of 13 and 75+ in March 2012. The overall goal of the survey was to understand how consumers watch video: their habits, preferences, and the devices they most prefer.

Our core findings revealed that Continue reading “From Internet Video Consumers, a Call for Content”

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Chris Osika

Senior Director, Global Lead

Service Provider Practice Internet Business Solutions Group

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Cisco and Verizon showcase the Connected Athlete Experience – a pathway to Internet of Everything

kiran-mattyBy Kiran Matty, Marketing Manager, SP Mobility Solutions

Doesn’t it boggle your mind to see how more objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate?  Indeed, we live in a “Connected World.”  According to Cisco IBSG, a whopping 37 billion intelligent things would be connected to the internet by 2020. Recall that the number of connected things has already surpassed the human population. However, more than 99% of things in the physical world are still not connected to the Internet.  Internet of Everything  (IoE) has the potential to connect the unconnected, thereby opening up unprecedented opportunities. But, it’s not just things that are connected to the internet. According to Gartner, people themselves will become nodes on the Internet, constantly emitting information.

Service Providers and Enterprises recognize this opportunity and are looking for innovative applications to harness the power of IoE to gain competitive advantage. Further, Continue reading “Cisco and Verizon showcase the Connected Athlete Experience – a pathway to Internet of Everything”

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Murali Nemani

Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Compute & AI