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Do you work from home or on the road often? Do you love “work from home Fridays” where you can drink your coffee in your sweats while responding to emails? So do we. Working remotely saves hours of time on the road that can be better spent getting the kids ready for school or taking that early morning conference call and then immediately hopping on your laptop to work. We also know that teleworking can be great for a more flexible lifestyle but it can also present some challenges if managers do not set expectations of what is expected and if teleworkers don’t create productive work habits.
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Tags: mobility, Secure Connectivity, telework, video
February 7, 2012 at 6:15 am PST
If not pre-empted by a neighbor’s dog, one of the first things I hear each morning is the weather report. This time of year, there’s usually some reference to clouds – partly cloudy, high clouds, low clouds, cloud cover, clouds clearing by mid-morning, clouds arriving in the late afternoon. A world of many clouds indeed.
When it comes to conversations about technology, it’s hard to escape talk of clouds, cloud computing, and cloud this, that, and the other thing. But here’s a question: I’m not an IT person, so why should I care about cloud computing?
Beyond the weather...
How about this? Clouds give you what you need to do collaborate more effectively — when, where, and how you need it. Add in reduced costs, increased profitability, improved efficiency, and support for innovative business models. OK, I’m listening.
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Tags: Cius, cloud, cloud_computing, collaboration, mobility, video, web conferencing, WebEX
A couple of colleagues of mine wrote a document on live Workload Mobility and Disaster Recovery for Tier-1 applications. I think you should check it out and here’s a couple of key points that I want to highlight:
- A single physical Cisco, EMC, VMware infrastructure
- Both vMotion and SRM validated on same infrastructure
- Tier-1 Enterprise Applications tested
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Tags: Business Continuance, Cisco, DCI, disaster recovery, EMC, LISP, Microsoft Sharepoint, mobility, Oracle 11g, OTV, RecoverPoint, Replication, SRM, Tier 1 Applications, vMotion, VMware, VPLEX, VPLEX Metro, Workload Mobility
February 3, 2012 at 5:00 am PST
Recently Jon Stine with Cisco IBSG wrote in the Cisco Retail blog an article titled “In Between the Numbers: Bring Your Own Device Do we know what that means?” where he talked about the changes that the BYOD concept brings to the change in the culture of employees leveraging technology to get their job done, and how it not just impacts the end point technology but all the network and information technology infrastructure.
I recently went to New York for the National Retail Federation Conference and I took a picture of all the devices (excluding my laptop) that I carried with me for use at the hotel, in the booth, and while I was at 30,000 ft.
As I think back about working with multiple devices (both issued to me and owned by me) during the week, here are some areas that impacted IT.
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Tags: bring your own device, byod, Cisco, mobility, National Retail Federation, NRF, retail, retailing, security
It’s clear from our conversations with customers around the world that we’re in the early stages of a fundamental shift in business. It’s the decade of collaboration. A time of flash communities and knowledge accidents. A time when video, virtualization, social media and mobility influence everything we do. And when employees from any remote corner of an organization can provide the spark for your next important innovation.
But only if you set the stage for collaboration.
Building a collaborative organization isn’t easy. It takes a transformative approach to culture, processes and technology—and an unwavering commitment from top to bottom. Do it and you will be rewarded with an energized organization that can adapt quickly to changing markets and deliver tangible results.
That’s why I recently partnered with my colleague, Ron Ricci, Cisco’s VP of Corporate Positioning, to write The Collaboration Imperative, a book that dives into the culture, process and technology dimensions of successful collaboration. It offers practical tips and strategies for making companies more collaborative and looks at how some of the world’s leading companies are sharpening their collaboration edge.
We also introduce some surprising facts. For example, did you know that….
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Tags: Carl Wiese Blog, Collaboration Imperative Blog, Collaborative Imperative, mobility, New Collaboration Experience, social media, video, virtualization
