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December 17, 2013

NETWORKING

Announcement: Nominations Now Open For Cisco Champions for Enterprise Networks

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Are you passionate about Cisco’s networking technology?  You know, routing, switching, mobility and more? Run for routers?...

December 4, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

Cloud: Are you confused, convinced or converted?

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If you are in some way connected to the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, you probably have an opinion on cloud-based services. The past couple of years have seen a frenzy of activity in the business to business cloud services with manufacturers, service providers, and users extolling the virtues of the virtual. Product and […]

November 27, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

Driving to work in Internet of Everything

2 min read

Recently Ford celebrated the success of the SYNC® system with its 10-Millionth SYNC equipped vehicle. For those who don’t know what the Ford SYNC system is, head over to the Ford Technology page and get yourself educated. What’s important about this milestone is the fact car connectivity has reached critical mass.  This milestone really is […]

November 26, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

My Weekend and the Internet of Everything

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What would an “Internet of Everything” weekend look like was my question earlier this month as I sat there eating breakfast before going into battle later that day. Today’s meal was critical fuel for my next round of matches in a Masters Squash Tournament. The pressure was on because members of my family were coming […]

November 20, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

3.9 Million and the IOE

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If I told you there’s something all around us that, if connected, could significantly help reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, reduce pollution on a massive scale, reduce the amount of time we spend in our cars, make entire cities smarter and contribute to an overall improvement of peoples’ physical and mental health all at […]

November 6, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

Cisco ISE in the lab.

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My company is in the very early stages of an MDM BYOD project.  As part of that we are looking at the Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) as a central piece.  I am about half way through my testing and I thought that I would pass on some of what I have learned so far.  […]

November 1, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

Can the IoE Revolutionize Alternative Medicine?

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The other week I found myself chatting with a fellow healthcare (and Cisco) enthusiast on Twitter about alternative medicine and I experienced an Aha! moment – alternative medicine may soon have an entirely new face if it’s driven by consumer adoption of advanced (and in many cases, currently available) technologies. Let me explain. I recently wrote […]

October 30, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

Summary: TelePresence for SMBs: It isn’t just for the big guys anymore

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If you’re in an SMB company you might think of telepresence as a tool built for enterprise, something that would be nice to have for your small business but just out of reach. You’d be wrong. Video conferencing solutions like Telepresence and even web-based technologies like WebEx are more affordable than ever, making them a […]

October 23, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

Los Angeles Unified School District – Hack the iPads!

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It didn’t take long, but soon after the Los Angeles Unified School District began their rollout of some 650,000 iPads to their students, they ran into some technical issues. Students in at least one of LAUSD’s high schools quickly discovered a way to bypass the security on the devices. Still in Phase 1 of the […]