If you’re in the United States, you’ll know Thanksgiving means two things: turkey and therapy (as in retail therapy). As one of our more shameless displays of mass consumerism, Black Friday brings to light the not-so-new fact that shopping and consumers are undeniably married to the megatrend of consumerization. Deloitte declared in its Annual Holiday Survey that it’s smartphone shoppers who are driving sales this season. ̶…

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When the history of the Internet of Everything (IoE) is written, its success or failure will be determined by answering one question. How did IoE benefit humanity? In the end, nothing else matters. With this in mind, let’s look at two examples of how IoE will benefit people, both today and tomorrow. Today—Transforming the World’s Cities To revitalize the world’s largest cities, City24/7 — a company committed to making public communications mo…

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Tags: Cisco, Dave Evans, IBSG, Internet of Everything, IoE, M2M, M2P, Machine to Machine, p2p, people to machine, people to people, value at stake, value creation

…was revised up to 161,000 from 146,0005. However, we have to remain cautious. The Commerce Department said today that orders were essentially flat for November, with aircraft demand lower than expected. This was after gaining 0.8% in October. However, talking about aircraft, only this week a firm that builds Aircraft components is expanding its operations — GE Aviation and SeaCast Inc launched a joint venture to produce aircraft components in Bu…

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Tags: aircraft, China, Germany, happy new year, india, Industry, New Year, Peter Granger, PMI, UK

By 2016, more than 10 billion connected devices will populate our planet. According to data from the Cisco Visual Networking Index, mobile connection speeds and data use are anticipated to rise with this influx of smartphones, tablets and laptop computers. Many mobile device users are constantly connected, using their smartphones to search for information at work as well as during their leisure time. Outside the office space, Cisco is working wi…

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Tags: Enterprise, mobility, operators, Service Provider, wi-fi, wifi

Yesterday, Cisco announced that we closed on the acquisition of Cloupia.  Cloupia is now officially part of Cisco and a very exciting new addition to our Unified Management software portfolio. Ever since the news broke about Cisco’s intent to acquire Cloupia, I’ve been asked how this fits with our other data center and cloud management software products.  In short, Cloupia’s strength is in converged infrastructure management and it’s a powerful…

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Tags: Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud, Cisco UCS, Cloud Management, Cloupia, IaaS, Infrastructure Management, intelligent automation, orchestration, unified management