Cisco Blog > Collaboration
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? Read More »
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
January 31, 2012 at 4:19 am PST
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
Significant technology developments continue to hit the USA K-12 market.
With Apple’s digital textbook announcement last week, we are now likely to see more acceleration of the spread of new student devices. Is this major announcement by the company that rapidly transformed computing, music and mobility the boost schools need to drive toward the promise of digital technology for all students? And what’s the resulting impact on device and computing trends in K-12?
On the topic of devices, we asked two of our leading K-12 Chief Technology Officer (CTO) customers to give us their opinions. BYOD? 1:1? What’s the better course to pursue? The answer would make Nike proud. While both noted device and equity issues one way or another, all said simply” “Just do it!”. What’s even more interesting – it wasn’t actually all about the device.
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Tags: byod, edtech, education, mobility
