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Partner-Weekly-Rewind-v2Every Friday, we’ll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories of the week, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here’s what you might have missed this week:

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If you missed it, Cisco completed its acquisition of WHIPTAIL, a leader in high performance, scalable solid state memory systems. Be sure to check out the press release about the completion of the deal.

Edison Peres Named Top Channel Sales Leader of 2013

CRN just released its picks for top channel sales leaders of 2013 and our own Edison Peres topped the list!

CRN chose 25 channels sales leaders who funnel their vision and strategy into real solutions for partners. Be sure to check out their top 25. Continue reading “Cisco Partner Weekly Rewind – November 1, 2013”



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David Durham

Content Strategist

Channels

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I have written many blogs over the years but never have I had so much trouble finding the right words as with this post. All kinds of thoughts are rushing through my head at a million miles per hour and I can’t seem to hold on to any of them. Then I take a deep breath and here it goes: today is my last day at Cisco.

I have had a great dance. I am so grateful for the people and organizations that have come into my life – both virtually and physically, – and for the memories they have given me. I have waltzed through some unforgettable experiences and cha cha’d my way to having the privilege of leading a team I’ll be forever proud of.

As I take my last bow as a Cisco employee, I want to thank you for all your support, for reading my blogs, for sharing and commenting on them, and for engaging with me in other ways. I also want to thank all who have participated or are participating in any of the programs or activities that my team has built. There are several but I would like to highlight three: Continue reading “The Last Dance”



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CSIRT, I have a project for you. We have a big network and we’re definitely getting hacked constantly. Your group needs to develop and implement security monitoring to get our malware and hacking problem under control.

 

If you’ve been a security engineer for more than a few years, no doubt you’ve received a directive similar to this. If you’re anything like me, your mind probably races a mile a minute thinking of all of the cool detection techniques you’re going to develop and all of the awesome things you’re going to find.

I know, I’ll take the set of all hosts in our web proxy logs doing periodic POSTs and intersect that with…

STOP!

 

You shouldn’t leap before you look into a project like this. Continue reading “Using a “Playbook” Model to Organize Your Information Security Monitoring Strategy”



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Brandon Enright

Information Security Investigator

Cisco's Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)

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Today’s guest author is Nathan Hjelm, a Scientist 2 at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

We recently added scripts to support tab completion of mpirun flags and run-time MCA configuration variables to the Open MPI trunk development. The scripts support both bash and zsh and have a number of useful features (depending on the shell).

Can’t remember how to spell that MCA parameter name? Just hit <TAB>.
Can’t remember which transports are available? Just hit <TAB>.
Can’t remember the name of that mpirun CLI option? Just hit <TAB>.

Continue reading “My new favorite Open MPI mpirun feature: tab completion”



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Jeff Squyres

The MPI Guy

UCS Platform Software

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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the 120th Annual International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)  Conference and Expo in Philadelphia.

IACP CiscoIt was an honor to attend this event and learn from experts about best practices in public safety as well as to recognize this years Winners and Finalists selected by the IACP Community Policing Committee recognized for the best community policing practices representing agencies around the world with the Community Policing Award from IACP and Cisco.

This year there were over 450 separate events, including 200 workshops covering a comprehensive array of public safety issues, best practices and solutions including sessions concerning major public safety incidents during the past year, including the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting and the Boston Marathon Bombing, that have affected each and every one of us.

Collaboration, shared services and improved communications capabilities were important themes throughout this year’s conference.

Continue reading “Public Safety Blog Series-Highlights from IACP 2013 in Philly”



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Kacey Carpenter

Senior Manager

Global Government and Public Sector Marketing

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Happy Halloween from all of us at Cisco!

To celebrate, here’s a fun list of the top 5 ‘spookiest’ tech innovations –those inspired by sci-fi, made real life through incredible advances in STEM research and the growing connections in the Internet of Everything:

1. The Bionic Man:  Not quite Steve Austin, Roboticists at Shadow Robot Co. in England have created the world’s first robot human made entirely of prosthetic parts. He can walk, talk, and even has a beating heart and circulatory system. We have the technology…

2. Invisibility Cloak: While Hogwarts might not be accessible to us muggles, scientists at HyperStealth Biotechnology have been working on the best camouflage fabric yet- it makes you invisible. Now if we just had a time-turner for some of those incredibly busy days!

Continue reading “Sci-Fi Turned Real Life: 5 ‘Spooky’ Innovations in Science and Technology”



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Problems never end but neither does the ingenuity of Cisco! Following the success of its predecessors, HackIT III took place at the end of July, this time bigger, better and awesome-er than before. This quarter, San Jose, RTP and HackIT‘s brand new theater, UK,  gathered 203 passionate participants to come up with innovative solutions to real problems that Cisco faces everyday. HackIT III‘s featured category came from an emerging market: Social Data, and as such, featured problems were crowdsourced via Idea Bank.


Continue reading “Cisco Delivers Innovation at 3rd Semi-Annual HackIT”



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Michael Hopps

Specialist

Global Social Media Marketing

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Is it the end of October already? As has been true for centuries, there is a tradition for children to wear costumes and disguise themselves while going door to door with a simple question: “Trick or treat?” While I am not sure there is a coincidence, but having National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) end on a day characterized by pranks, false identifications and the like seems appropriate. And what scary stories we had to tell!

Continue reading “NCSAM 2013 Wrap-Up: Cisco Thought Leadership Regarding a Different Ghost in the Machine”



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Richard Aceves

Manager

Security Research & Operations

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The inaugural IoT World Forum closed today in Barcelona with the overall sentiment being that it was a resounding success.

One of the key messages that emerged was the need for everyone to work together and for the customer solutions of the future to be drive by business outcomes or capabilities, rather than by what it takes to deliver them or the underlying components or technologies. Increasingly business leaders are making their purchasing decisions by prioritizing business value and business relevance.

Cisco’s Connected Mobile Experiences was highlighted at the World Forum and is seen as one of the key pieces of the overall IoT jigsaw.

Some very interesting use cases for CMX and its capabilities were showcased this week. In a previous post I spoke about the Smart City Tour and how CMX is used in an innovative manner within the city and how brands can take advantage of CMX to engage their customers in creative ways. In another post I spoke about how CMX was used within the IoT venue and the analytics that were available for all to see on the event jumbotron.

There are a few more (yes, even more–with CMX, the possibilities of deployment are endless) ways that we wove CMX into the IoT experience that’d I’d like to share with you in my final IoT World Forum string of posts.

One of these was using CMX within the City of Barcelona as a key dashboard of information for the municipal authorities. Here is a view of the Born area part of the old Gothic section of the city and a major tourist destination in the city. We can see here that over 6600 devices where detected with an average dwell time of 8 minutes.

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Brendan O'Brien

Director Global Product Marketing

Connected Mobile Experiences