From Harvard Business Review: when growing your digital business, focus more on rapid innovation and less on strategies which are probably based on the old world view anyway. For many companies considering how digital technologies could or should transform their business … Continue reading
From a couple months ago, but well worth repeating: Massive changes in the IT infrastructure industry are disrupting traditional vendors and creating significant upside opportunity for Cisco. Ader asserts that “Cisco is the “best house in a bad neighbourhood,” as … Continue reading
As the Internet of Things gains acceptance and scale, the security risks increase. Keep an eye on your refrigerator, it could be spamming you. Over the period stretching from Dec. 23, 2013 to Jan. 6, 2014, a group of hackers … Continue reading
“Fog” computing is so 2014. Welcome to mist computing. Cisco’s differentiator is that the analytics tools won’t just be located in the core or edge of a network. Cisco will be pushing analytics all the way out to the extreme … Continue reading
The times and distances for space travel are not very compatible with human lifetimes. So, it kind of makes sense that the intelligent life forms that we may encounter in the universe will be digital. If and when we finally … Continue reading
Emerging from one corner of the CES in Las Vegas, the Internet of Guns. “Hunting and shooting sports are now part of the web fabric. With this new technology, friends and family are virtually transported and immersed in exotic and … Continue reading
We may be nearing the peak of the hype cycle. Early reports from the show are somewhat disquieting in the breadth and range of IoT offerings that are “me too” kinds of wearables and convenience-oriented products of marginal value. Some … Continue reading
Do you remember that once upon a time, we used to put coins into a telephone, when we actually wanted to speak with someone? Not any more. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said LinkNYC, a plan proposed by … Continue reading
In the technology industry, the little fish always wants to eat the big fish. The two most preferred security vendors picked by CIOs in the survey were Symantec and Cisco. But ironically, they were also two of the top five … Continue reading
PARIS – A few years ago, my husband and I spent Christmas vacation in a big farmhouse in the French countryside near Bergerac with friends. We were four couples, four cute English pre-teens, and a lot of cows and ducks … Continue reading