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“Your body can do anything. It’s your mind that needs convincing” There are a few things I remember vividly about my childhood. I was always very happy. I have always been a foodie at heart. And my mother is a wonderful cook. And I guess these all resulted in me being the happy kid who loved sweets and was a bit chubby. My weight didn’t really bother me being a teenager. I’ve heard others say…

“Why should an I&O leader care about diversity and inclusion? Why do you need to be involved in this at all? What good will it do you?” The answer to her questions, Debra Logan, a vice president and Gartner fellow told a virtual conference this week, is about building better infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams. “I’m not asking you to have faith,” she said. “I’m not asking you to do it for non-business reasons. I’m…

While cloud companies such as AWS are offering enterprise customers new ways to get applications off the mainframe and into the cloud, IBM moved this week to keep them on the Big Iron. IBM rolled out a portal  it calls the IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Center which offers an assortment of tools, training, resources and ecosystem partners to help IBM Z clients accelerate the modernization of mainframe applications, data and processes to work with…

Five years ago, AMD was hanging on by a thread. Sales had dropped below $1 billion per quarter. Its client and server CPUs were no longer competitive with Intel’s. Its Opteron server-CPU market share was less than one percent. Its GPU products were a little better but Nvidia had the mindshare. Then two things happened: Dr. Lisa Su ascended to the CEO position, and it developed the Zen microarchitecture, a clean-sheet, from-scratch redesign of the…

In the United States, the Department of Defense (DoD) is increasing the security measures required to participate in their research funding programs. This comes in the form of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). Cisco’s Advisory CISO and former Chief Information Security Officer at The Ohio State University, Helen Patton, explained CMMC to Forbes as “A high-level security protocol established by and for the Department of Defense (DoD) intended to harden critical or vulnerable digital assets”. (The…

If you’re reading this post, chances are you’ve heard about Wi-Fi 6E and the promises the technology holds. I’m here to tell you the promises are real and as Wi-Fi 6E devices come to market, you’ll be able to take advantage of the benefits Wi-Fi 6E has to offer. However, depending on where you are in the world, you may have a bit of delay as it isn’t available everywhere, yet. Wi-Fi 6E has a…

“America’s mines are open for business. Not for coal necessarily, but definitely for the critical minerals seen by the Biden administration as essential for economic and national security, like lithium to power batteries or aluminum for wind turbines. But there’s a hitch. Companies are struggling to hire miners.”—NPR, August 18, 2021 As miners retire, mining operators are finding it difficult to replace them. One reason for the personnel shortage can be attributed to the fact that mining…

Do you remember the “Alert When Available” feature in the (old) Cisco Jabber chat menu? If not, here is a quick recap. The “Alert When Available” option configured Cisco Jabber to notify you when your contacts are available (i.e., online/active). This makes it easier to know if other people are available to respond to your messages. For some reason, this option is missing from the Webex chat menu 🙄. So, without getting into a Jabber…

Today’s Service Providers are bringing to market next-generation solutions like 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), software-designed networking (SDN), zero-trust network access (ZTNA), secure access service edge (SASE), and real-time enterprise (RTE). Additionally, they are focused on keeping and recruiting essential skilled resources. They currently have an aging workforce who are retiring and taking expert-level networking skills with them. All industries are looking for new professional entrants with data science and analytics modeling skills. Also, the…

Co-Author: Richard JangTechnical Marketing Engineer in IBNG at Cisco Systems Cisco and Wipelot present the first real-time location system (RTLS) with an app hosting solution using Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) . The new normal makes sensitive location detection more critical than ever before, so that your business can operate more effectively and use resources more efficiently, thus reducing costs and improving the bottom line. Imagine how powerful it would be to have a centralized dashboard showing…