Howdy out there in automation land! It has been 1 year…. 1 year exactly since my last blog. I do apologize to the readers but with the year we’ve had, I am sure you understand. A lot of change in our work environments, a lot of change in our world. However, Pondering Automation is back and in a new place/home. This blog will move to the developer blogs section of cisco.com now and will be…

There has been plenty of discussion about the critical role the Australian TAFE sector will play in Australia’s economic response and recovery from COVID-19. A lot of the media focus tends to be on funding models and incentives, including ways for governments to make TAFE sustainable during a period of significant challenge. While this focus on high-level funding settings is understandable, it doesn’t really provide an accurate picture of what’s happening at an individual institute…

In my blog The Network of the Future: Where We’re Going, I outlined the Cisco IT networking vision and strategy.  A strategy for how our network would be smarter and faster—using automation and collecting data to enable faster innovation, cost optimization, and reduced security vulnerabilities. A lot has changed since I wrote that blog – not the least of which is a pandemic that has changed our lives tremendously and an increasingly dynamic business environment…