Year: 2015

July 22, 2015 4 Comments
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New #SocialRoundup: How New Live-Streaming Video Applications are Changing Views on Content

It’s estimated that nearly three-fourths of the world’s mobile data traffic will be in the form of video content by 2019, with an expected 13-fold increase between 2014 and 2019. And more than half of the mobile devices connected to the network will be “smart” ones. As mobility continues to expand, Cisco, like many brands, is exploring the most innovative ways to integrate real-time video with our social media to engage with customers, influencers and employees.

YouTube and Google+ Hangout On Air have been steady options. But newer tools like Periscope and Meerkat allow users to share and watch live video broadcasts around the world using a mobile device. And these tools are changing the way we use live-streaming video apps.

Periscope, which is owned by Twitter, is an app we at Cisco have already begun using to share our content. At our recent Cisco Live! IT education and training conference in San Diego, Continue reading “New #SocialRoundup: How New Live-Streaming Video Applications are Changing Views on Content”

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Autumn Truong

No Longer with Cisco

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Curation-as-a-Service: OpenStack’s greatest offer is sometimes what it doesn’t offer

Curation as a service
OpenStack’s growing popularity was evident at the last Summit in Vancouver.

This blog post is written, partly, in response to a post on techreplublic.com titled “Marketing OpenStack’s Progress: Now ‘It actually works’” by Matt Asay

Admittedly, I wasn’t at the OpenStack Summit in which Randy Bias declared in his State of the Stack talk that “OpenStack is at risk of collapsing under its own weight,” but I’m familiar with the sentiment, as I’m sure a lot of people close to the OpenStack community, and open source in general, are.

At least one other industry pundit has gone on record that the community-powered fast moving development is a double-edged sword for the OpenStack project at large. While propelling projects forward with, at most times, consistent momentum, it has lacked focus on interoperability, which has resulted in a number of conflicts among projects that, while disparate, all carry the OpenStack brand.

The result is the slow adoption of the cloud platform due to complexity and growing preference and focus on streamlined technologies that focus on simplicity. “OpenStack can run a fine private cloud, if you have lots of people to throw at the project and are willing to do lots of coding,” explained Gartner’s Alan Waite, further declaring that adoption will continue to suffer in the face of complexity and lack of compatibility.

But what if you could have the best of both worlds? What if you could have the collective mindshare of the OpenStack community, focused on growing the project in way that addresses real world problems? What if you could depend on a team that aims to move the right needles in terms of business objectives? What if you had a version of OpenStack that was as reliable and simple to use as some of its leaner competitors?

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Hart Hoover

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Cisco’s Approach to Telehealth White Paper

Telehealth is an important initiative for healthcare organizations today. It is generally accepted that telehealth deployments can help reduce costs and improve patient services while expanding the geographic footprint of the organization.

Cisco’s robust interoperability, security, and video technology have put us at the forefront of telehealth.  Over the years, our teams have seen a recurring theme of limited deployments in a small handful of areas across healthcare organization.  These limited or siloed deployments typically lack a unifying strategy or architecture to be able to accommodate a telehealth deployment at scale. Cisco can help your organization to establish a vision and architecture strategy for deploying a telehealth program.

This new white paper, Cisco’s Approach to Telehealth, describes how Cisco can help you define:

  • strategic imperatives that your telehealth program will address
  • financial and reimbursement goals
  • revenue and workflow outcomes
  • a go forward strategy for a telehealth platform that can scale to fulfill needs from multiple service lines

Contact us today to learn how Cisco can help you extend your delivery of quality care to whenever and wherever it is needed.

The direct URL for the white paper is http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/docs/healthcare/cisco-approach-to-telehealth.pdf and more information on Cisco’s Care-at-a-Distance solutions can be found at http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/healthcare/care_at_a_distance.html.

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Jason Mortensen

Global Healthcare Solutions Portfolio Manager

Digital Transformation Group

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Looking for Money in New Places

There are some innovative ways to make money nowadays, and sometimes kids can come up with new ways that we hadn’t thought about.  For examples, we know some kids in the area who are raising money for various charities.  Instead of asking their relatives to sponsor them or going door-to-door to the neighbors to get the money, one child decided to sell duct tape wallets and homemade potpurri, while another decided to sell her book collection to raise money.  Those kids clearly are thinking about new ways to get money for something old and traditional.

Dad & Kids

In the world of service providers and networks, the demand for new and better services continue to grow, while the networks must expand and quickly adapt to these demands.  One way that operators are evolving their network is to Continue reading “Looking for Money in New Places”

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Maywun Wong

Manager, Market Management

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#WednesdayWalkabout Series Kickoff: The Internet of Everything and Tomorrow’s Digital Cities, Today

Co-authored with Dani Schrakamp

It’s Here and It’s Happening Now

As large populations shift to urban areas, cities are under tremendous pressure to compete economically and grow sustainably. In the era of digital disruption, citizens are also expecting more from their engagements with local, regional, and national government organizations and leaders. In response to these pressing challenges, communities around the world are going digital and creating new, intelligent connections with the Internet of Everything (IoE).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOf3aB-jRMU&feature=youtu.be

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Brenda Germundson

Global Industry Marketing Leader

Revenue Marketing

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This Summer’s Blockbuster starring Cisco Wireless

Last summer Cisco embarked on the ‘WLAN Express’ journey with the introduction of WLAN Express Setup. As I wrote about here, the Express Setup provides an easy three-step wizard to establish a best-in-class Enterprise wireless solution. These best practices are enabled by default, meaning that the solution is Cisco-powered and ready to go in matter of minutes once you take it out of the box.

When AireOS software release 8.1 debuted earlier this summer, Cisco introduced an enhanced WLAN Express Setup packed with over-the-air provisioning, enhanced search, new monitoring dashboards and companion mobile apps (iOS & Android). These new features took the user-experience to the next level.

Cisco Wireless Mobile App

As a busy network admin, there are times when your computer is unavailable but you need access to your wireless network. With that in mind, stay connected by using these newly created mobile apps for both Apple iOS and Android devices.

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The app allows for:

  • Over-The-Air Provisioning of compatible Wireless LAN Controller that enables configuration of best-in-class wireless network with best practices enabled by default in matter of minutes. Watch a demo here.
  • Monitor multiple wireless LAN controllers from same place. It provides real-time network issues with intuitive dashboards for network and client performance
  • Troubleshoot client and network issues through enhanced search functionality, enhanced RF and network details for APs and clients.

Continue reading “This Summer’s Blockbuster starring Cisco Wireless”

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Pushkar Sharma

Product Manager

Wireless Networking Group

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Securing the Supply Chain Throughout the Product Lifecycle

In this environment of advanced threats along every point of the value chain, I’d like to talk about what it means for you, our customers and partners, to have supply chain security throughout the product lifecycle.

I’ve just finished a short video on this topic. I’d love to hear your feedback, insights and suggestions on securing the product supply chain.

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Edna Conway

Chief Security Officer

Chief Security Officer, Global Value Chain

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#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 28. Elastica

CiscoChampion200PXbadge#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’ll talk about Elastica, the Integration between Cisco ISE and Cloud Access Security Brokers, which gives administrators deeper visibility, security and control over access to cloud resources. Our Cisco SME will be Nitin Kumar, Cisco Service Deployment Manager, Cisco Cloud Web Security.

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Cisco SME
Nitin Kumar, Cisco Service Deployment Manager, Cisco Cloud Web Security

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Brad Haynes, @GK_bradhaynes, Client Solutions Specialist

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Brian Remmel (@bremmel)

Highlights
What is Elastica
Why Elastica
Features and Capabilities of Elastica
Elastica CloudSOC platform
Easily consumable data in Elastica GUI interface
Integration with other Cisco security products
Most surprising features in Elastica
Real world use cases for Elastica
Phases of the Cisco / Elastica Partnership
Running a risk assessment with Elastica

Resource
https://www.elastica.net/

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Rachel Bakker

Social Media Advocacy Manager

Digital and Social

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IoT Meets Standards, Driving Interoperability and Adoption

For years, industrial control systems have been characterized by proprietary devices, protocols, communications, and applications. However, at the Hannover Fair last spring, virtually every exhibitor showed products that support IP, Ethernet, or Wi-Fi interfaces—something that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago.

The Internet of Everything (IoE) is driving this change, with an exponentially growing number of connections among people, process, data, and things. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a key enabler of this evolution. By 2020, according to Cisco’s analysis, there will be 50 billion connected devices—all needing a common way to work together.

As I discussed in my last blog, the worlds of Information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) are converging—and they are converging around standards. The good news is that the industry is recognizing that a fragmented, proprietary model does not scale, and inhibits the value of IoT deployments. The IoT standardization efforts are focused on four different areas: Continue reading “IoT Meets Standards, Driving Interoperability and Adoption”

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Maciej Kranz

Vice President and General Manager

Corporate Strategic Innovation Group