Woo hoo!
MPI 3.1 votes: aside from one organization who had the leave before the final vote, the MPI Forum unanimously voted to approve MPI-3.1.
Get your fresh, hot copy of the MPI-3.1 specification (I’m told that physical books will become available in the coming months for those who are interested — can you guess what color the books will be?).
We introduced a ground breaking “megatest” back in March 2015, validating Cisco’s service provider Virtualization and Cloud portfolio. During that test, conducted independently by LightReading and EANTC, they showed how carriers could start the journey to offer virtualized services in a multi-vendor environment. A key point was that no matter where operators are in the process – design, implement, or monetize – the technology is mature enough to deploy today.
Some of you may want to check out the solution in person – and if you’re going to San Diego or Chicago next week then you’re in luck. Here’s what we’ve got going on: Continue reading “Cisco Showcases Validated SDN/NFV Technologies Next Week”
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’ll be talking about 802.11ac Wave 2 with Cisco Principal CME, Catalyst Switching Group, Shawn Wargo, and Cisco Technical Marketing Manager Sujit Ghosh.
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Cisco SME
Shawn Wargo, Principal CME, Catalyst Switching Group
Sujit Ghosh, Technical Marketing Manager
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Samuel Clements, @samuel_clements, Mobility Practice Manager
Stewart Goumans, @WirelessStew, Mobility Consultant
Chris Nickl, @ck_nic, Cloud Infrastructure Architect
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Cisco Live provides a rich lineup of education, with over 700 sessions to increase your knowledge and propel your career. You can also network with likeminded professionals and industry thought leaders providing additional value from your involvement long after the conference ends.
To help you get the most from your Cisco Live experience, be sure to take advantage of these social media opportunities:
Don’t wait until you arrive in San Diego. Start networking today. Add yourself to @Networkingnerd’s Twitter list and participate in the conversations on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google+. The benefits of #CLUS can start today.
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Cisco continues to strengthen the security in and around its products, solutions, and services. This week Cisco began providing a Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) 512 bits (SHA512) checksum to validate downloaded images on www.cisco.com. Cisco already provided a Message Digest 5 (MD5) checksum as the secured hash of the software but the newer SHA512 hash value is now generated on all software images, creating a unique output that is more secure than the MD5 algorithm.
I am so glad that Todd is next up in our Why I Love Big Data Partner Series, because he is definitely excited about the potential ways Big Data unlocks the value of IoE. Please come by CiscoLive and see Cisco, Cloudera, and Tableau use data-driven, predictive insights to help medical teams improve quality of care and healthcare outcomes.
Todd Talkington, Tableau Software, Sr. Technical Partner Manager
Todd Talkington has been in the software industry for 15 years and at Tableau for He has had a focus on building out solutions that help Tableau customers see and understand their data, through Tableau Technology Partners.
As technical partner manager for Tableau, I am having so much fun doing my job. Why? Because we are right in the middle of the big data craze. People are finding amazing ways to use all of the information. I had to buy a new refrigerator this weekend, which was bad. I was amazed that the manufacturer can now connect to my fridge when it breaks down and run diagnostics. Ford Motor has been testing cars that are sending back 250 gig of sensor data back to Ford…..PER HOUR!
Yes, things are changing quickly. This year I wrote about the top 7 Trends in Big Data. One of the top predictions we made was that the traditional ecosystem would change. Technologies like Cisco Data Integration are allowing customers to bring data into one place, so they can better get to the needed data. Hadoop has become the new normal in the datacenter for storage. Other technologies to allow us to more easily clean and transform the data. It is amazing how the ecosystem has changed in just a few short years.
There’s no doubt that learning is changing. In the past, learning was constrained by time and place. We all might remember, fondly or not, the traditional classroom, static desks in rows, plumes of chalk dust permeating the air, and trips to the library on foot as a group.
Now, lecture halls are emptying out, and in many classrooms across the country, students can become bored and disengaged. The very educational business model itself is forcing educational institutions to cut costs and find new revenue sources.
Today, the Internet of Everything (IoE) is opening a new world of opportunities for faculty, staff, and students. Students are learning in new ways, in new places, and with new connections to resources around the globe.
Having recently returned from weeks of event keynotes, customer roundtables, briefings and engagements (plus a few culinary adventures) in Greater China, I’ll start there with a few insights and observations. Despite one of the sharpest slow-downs in the Chinese manufacturing sector in recent history that have continued to shrink for the third consecutive month, I sensed an optimism and determination to persevere that haven’t waned, nor has China’s march to global leadership of manufacturing GDP. A recent report from Rhodium Group indicates the number of American workers employed directly by Chinese companies increased >five-fold over the last five years to >80,000 in 2014.
Automation and quality are key tenets driving China’s current growth strategies in manufacturing and the industrial sector. For Cisco this is creating continued demand for our Connected Factory portfolio of architecturally integrated solutions 
as a leap-frog approach to the legacy automation predominating U.S. and European factories. I certainly found to be the case at two conferences I keynoted—the 5th Annual Manufacturing Supply Chain Summit in Shanghai and the Industry 4.0 / Manufacturing Cloud Forum in Shenzhen—that many massive manufacturers are urgently implementing Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud / Data Analytics projects as part of their competitive business strategies and differentiation. This key take-away and perspective that China is leading other top manufacturing nations on adoption of industrial IoT is validated by a recent analysis compiled by Infosys Ltd.
Continue reading “IoE/IoT Globetrotting Part 2: Off to CiscoLive!”
Right now, nearly 16 billion people, processes, data, and things are connected to the Internet. By the time this blog post goes “live”, that number will have surely increased. And by 2020, there will be more than 50 billion connections, as the Internet of Everything becomes a reality and changes the world around us.
But what does this mean for you? To start, it means the jobs of today will become the jobs of yesterday – you’ll need new skills to thrive in the digital economy and stand out to employers looking to take advantage of the data created by billions of new connections. Furthermore, these connections will create new opportunities to solve some of the world’s greatest social issues, from global hunger to disaster relief.
Through its Cisco Networking Academy curriculum and a number of unique partnerships, Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is empowering global problem solvers with the skills they need to create social change around the globe. At Cisco Live US 2015, Cisco’s largest customer event from June 7 to June 11, visit us in booth 1441 to see firsthand how you can become a global problem solver and start using technology to solve the world’s social and environmental challenges.
Cisco CSR highlights include:
Continue reading “Empowering Global Problem Solvers at Cisco Live US 2015”
