design

April 1, 2015

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Feed Your April 1st Appetite with These Retro Cisco.com Pages

1 min read

It’s fun seeing some of the quirky examples of home pages on web sites today, including Amazon’s retro “April 1, 1999” page. I can’t think of a time we’ve ever done anything like that on Cisco.com, mainly because we don’t want to distract customers from the jobs they’re coming to do with us.  But, if you […]

March 31, 2015

COLLABORATION

Mastering Design, One Red Dot at a Time

2 min read

One of my favorite designers, John Maeda, believes that the most successful tech companies of the future will really be design companies. When John’s somewhat bold prediction is put in the context of this quote from Steve Jobs, “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works” – […]

February 3, 2015

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Our spiffy new tablet app

1 min read

In case you missed it, Cisco now has a tablet version of our flagship app.  And it’s great. Some new features include: Products use a ‘touch’ visual navigation structure Quicker navigation through ‘bookmarking’  without the need to login Video Datasheets delivered via the tablet app Comprehensive Internet of Everything and social media coverage Partner content, […]

December 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

Why Upgrade to MDS 9700

6 min read

MDS 9500 family has supported customers for more than a decade helping them  through FC speed transitions from 1G, 2G, 4G, 8G and 8G advanced without forklift upgrades. But as we look in the future the MDS 9700 makes more sense for a lot of data center designs.  Top four reasons for customers to upgrade are […]

December 16, 2014

SECURITY

A Circular Problem in Current Information Security Principles

5 min read

Editor’s Note: In this second installment of the blog series on more responsive security, we take a closer look at the circular problems associated with four common security principles in managing “weak link” risks in Information Technology organizations. Before discussing what constitutes this responsive approach to security, let us first look at a few of […]

October 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

MDS 9700 Scale Out and Scale Up

3 min read

This is the final part on the High Performance Data Center Design. We will look at how high performance, high availability and flexibility allows customers to scale up or scale out over time without any disruption to the existing infrastructure.  MDS 9710 capabilities are field proved with the wide adoption and steep ramp within first year […]

September 29, 2014

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Digital Design Visual and Otherwise

5 min read

First impressions really matter. We know this intuitively, and you may also have seen the stats that say it takes web visitors less than two-tenths of a second to form...

September 24, 2014

DATA CENTER

Next Generation Data Center Design With MDS 9700 – Part III

4 min read

Note: This is the third of a three-part series on Next Generation Data Center Design with MDS 9700; learn how customers can deploy scalable SAN networks that allow them to Scale Up or Scale Out in a non disruptive way.  Part 1 | Part 2 ] This week is exciting, had opportunity to sit on round […]