For more than 20 years we have been using Layer 3 connectivity powered by dynamic routing protocols to route traffic between data centers, but adoption of virtualization and geo-clustering ...

Every telecom system is bursting with information about subscribers, services and devices—not to mention the telco's network equipment and operational status. This data is both sensitive and necessary ...

I had a great time meeting with a variety of customers at Cisco Live in Orlando back in June. We covered a lot of different topics around data center security. One specific item that came up more than ...

Maybe you've heard of this new thing: the “independent data layer.” But, what is it? How does it work? And why the heck should you care? Think of all the things you do today in buildings. Or maybe all ...

Disparate BI, analytics, and data science tools result in discrepancies in data interpretation, business logic, and definitions among user groups. A universal semantic layer resolves those ...

A couple posts ago, we talked about Layer 1 of the OSI Model — the Physical Layer. Today, we’ll start our climb up the Model with a visit to Layer 2, the Data Link Layer. The Data Link Layer is one of ...

You know the drill. Your typical workday begins where yesterday's left off. A browser with 22 tabs of incomplete tasks, three open desktop apps, and a mountain of ...

If the last decade was about Digital India, the next must be about Decisive India. Data can illuminate, but only decisions ...