Finally, some good news. Amidst the standard fare of predictions of the inevitable decline and fall of US manufacturing, an interesting and encouraging 2011 report has been authored by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) called “Made in America, Again.” According to the report, “Manufacturing is expected to return to America as China’s rising labor costs erase most savings from offshoring.” As US states become cheaper locations to manufacture good…

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Tags: BCG, China, Cisco, infrastructure, innovation, labor costs, Manufacturing, manufacturing renaissance, offshoring, outsourcing, reinvestment

The future is here. To quote William Shatner in the original Star Trek Series “We are going where no man has gone before.” Dave Evans, Cisco’s Chief Futurist, recently posted an infographic in his blog that detailed the fascinating growth of the “Internet of things” – ATMs, kiosks, vending machines, smart meters, digital signage, refrigerator… And then he posted the question: “With this increase, how will you prepare your network for the f…

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Tags: Cisco Integrated Services Router, Cisco ISR 819, Dave Evans, Interop NY, M2M, Machine to Machine, video

The Cisco vision of the mobile network of the future is one that continuously adapts, enabling people to connect and communicate how, when, and where they need to, without relying on pre-defined fixed infrastructure. This is exemplified by the Cisco Mobile Ready Net solution architecture. In a split-second world where the stakes can be extremely high, mobile users are working beyond the boundaries of traditional networks. People who perform vita…

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Tags: 5900, 5915, 5940, Brad Boston, Cisco, communications, data, embedded services router, global government solutions group, mobile, mobile ready net, network of the future, secure, series, video, Voice

As someone who has been in the technology industry for more than 20 years; “work is what I do. Not a place.” I have been fortunate to be employed by organizations that have Telework and Mobile Workforce policies and that understand the have benefits of enabling me to work from just about any location (and at any time) you can imagine. As an employee this flexibility has given me much greater satisfaction in both my professional and personal live…

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Tags: Flexible Working, mobility, telework, teleworker

Last week in Las Vegas  at Cisco Live , we celebrated with numerous customers the 2 year birthday of the Unified Computing Systems (UCS) I mentioned it that briefly in one of my previous blogs , but today I’d  like to give some additional color to this event . Amongst the videos displayed during the event, one video caught specifically my attention. It was a series of customers quotes extracted from several video success stories that we recorded…

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