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Growing any enterprise requires getting people to do more and do it better. To assist professionals with that goal, Stanford University will offer a new online course, Scaling Excellence for Innovation, this month. "The course is built around the premise that scaling is a crucial skill for building vibrant and enduring organizations whether they are startups or established corporations," says faculty director Hayagreeva Rao. A free webinar to preview the virtual course will be available Thursday, February 21, from 9 – 10 a.m. PT/ Noon – 1 p.m. ET.
During the webinar, Rao will host a conversation with Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Lilly of Greylock Partners, who is the former CEO of Mozilla. He is co-inventor of seven U.S. patents and oversees Greylock Partners' investments in Dropbox, Instagram, and Tripit. A Stanford University alumnus, Lilly sits on the boards of the Open Source Applications Foundation and Participatory Culture Foundation, and is a consulting assistant professor at Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, also known as the d.school.
Scaling Excellence for Innovation is the latest in a series of classes offered as part of the Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Online Certificate Program, which launched in September 2012. Other courses include Marketing Innovation; Leading Innovation; Creating Demand: Driving Growth Using Traditional, Social, and Viral Marketing; and Empathize and Prototype: A Hands-On Dive into the Key Tools of Design Thinking.
Professionals around the world are able to access Stanford faculty and Silicon Valley experts as they learn essential skills and effective strategies for working in and managing innovative organizations. An engaging digital experience has been developed by the Stanford Center for Professional Development at the School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Business to deliver the course content.
Registration is open for the first five courses. Tuition is $995 for each course. Additional courses will continue to be introduced throughout 2013.
Participants may enroll in just a single course or earn the professional certificate from Stanford by completing any 8 of 12 courses. Courses are taught by Stanford faculty, drawing on instructors from the Graduate School of Business, the School of Engineering, and the d.school, as well as Silicon Valley industry leaders, using highly interactive and occasionally unconventional methods. The program is led by faculty directors Robert Sutton, a professor of management science and engineering at the School of Engineering, and Rao, professor of organizational behavior and human resources at the Graduate School of Business. The new class is based on core ideas in a forthcoming 2014 book, Scaling-Up Excellence: Getting to More without Settling for Less, by Sutton and Rao.
Entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs, as well as professionals from startups, Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit teams, and the public sector, will find the program to be practical and impactful. Given the level of material, participants must be fluent in written and spoken English. Participants will develop the skills to become catalysts for change as they learn how to foster innovation throughout their organizations. Whether this is someone's first class in innovation or a chance to cultivate a deeper understanding and practice of innovation, participants will learn how to use innovative thinking for personal and professional success.
Enroll in the February 21 webinar on Scaling Excellence for Innovation here.
Details about the online certificate program can be found at create.stanford.edu. For more information, contact Kristin Brennan at 650.741.1630, or [email protected].
SYS-CON Events announced today that Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas.
Dec. 22, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,345
The BPM world is going through some evolution or changes where traditional business process management solutions really have nowhere to go in terms of development of the road map. In this demo at 15th Cloud Expo, Kyle Hansen, Director of Professional Services at AgilePoint, shows AgilePoint's unique approach to dealing with this market circumstance by developing a rapid application composition or development framework.
Dec. 22, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,434
The Internet of Things is not new. Historically, smart businesses have used its basic concept of leveraging data to drive better decision making and have capitalized on those insights to realize additional revenue opportunities. So, what has changed to make the Internet of Things one of the hottest topics in tech? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Gray, Director, Embedded and Internet of Things, discussed the underlying factors that are driving the economics of intelligent systems. Discover how hardware commoditization, the ubiquitous nature of connectivity, and the emergence of Big Data a...
Dec. 21, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,421
"BSQUARE is in the business of selling software solutions for smart connected devices. It's obvious that IoT has moved from being a technology to being a fundamental part of business, and in the last 18 months people have said let's figure out how to do it and let's put some focus on it, " explained Dave Wagstaff, VP & Chief Architect, at BSQUARE Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Dec. 21, 2014 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,027
The major cloud platforms defy a simple, side-by-side analysis. Each of the major IaaS public-cloud platforms offers their own unique strengths and functionality. Options for on-site private cloud are diverse as well, and must be designed and deployed while taking existing legacy architecture and infrastructure into account. Then the reality is that most enterprises are embarking on a hybrid cloud strategy and programs. In this Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), moderated by Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, Nate Gordon, Director of T...
Dec. 21, 2014 11:30 AM EST Reads: 2,444
SYS-CON Events announced today that IDenticard will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. IDenticard™ is the security division of Brady Corp (NYSE: BRC), a $1.5 billion manufacturer of identification products. We have small-company values with the strength and stability of a major corporation. IDenticard offers local sales, support and service to our customers across the United States and Canada. Our partner network encompasses some 300 of the world's leading systems integrators and security s...
Dec. 21, 2014 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,181
ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is bringing a greater level of control, security and flexibility to cloud-based application development and delivery with a single-tenant version of Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service. The new platform enables developers to build ap...
Dec. 21, 2014 06:15 AM EST Reads: 2,151
"In the past year we've seen a lot of stabilization of WebRTC. You can now use it in production with a far greater degree of certainty. A lot of the real developments in the past year have been in things like the data channel, which will enable a whole new type of application," explained Peter Dunkley, Technical Director at Acision, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Dec. 20, 2014 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,434
DevOps Summit 2015 New York, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch. DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential.
Dec. 18, 2014 09:45 PM EST Reads: 1,285
"People are a lot more knowledgeable about APIs now. There are two types of people who work with APIs - IT people who want to use APIs for something internal and the product managers who want to do something outside APIs for people to connect to them," explained Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President at SOA Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Dec. 18, 2014 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,404
Nigeria has the largest economy in Africa, at more than US$500 billion, and ranks 23rd in the world. A recent re-evaluation of Nigeria's true economic size doubled the previous estimate, and brought it well ahead of South Africa, which is a member (unlike Nigeria) of the G20 club for political as well as economic reasons. Nigeria's economy can be said to be quite diverse from one point of view, but heavily dependent on oil and gas at the same time. Oil and natural gas account for about 15% of Nigera's overall economy, but traditionally represent more than 90% of the country's exports and as...
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The Internet of Things is a misnomer. That implies that everything is on the Internet, and that simply should not be - especially for things that are blurring the line between medical devices that stimulate like a pacemaker and quantified self-sensors like a pedometer or pulse tracker. The mesh of things that we manage must be segmented into zones of trust for sensing data, transmitting data, receiving command and control administrative changes, and peer-to-peer mesh messaging. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ryan Bagnulo, Solution Architect / Software Engineer at SOA Software, focused on desi...
Dec. 17, 2014 11:15 PM EST Reads: 1,455
"At our booth we are showing how to provide trust in the Internet of Things. Trust is where everything starts to become secure and trustworthy. Now with the scaling of the Internet of Things it becomes an interesting question – I've heard numbers from 200 billion devices next year up to a trillion in the next 10 to 15 years," explained Johannes Lintzen, Vice President of Sales at Utimaco, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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"For over 25 years we have been working with a lot of enterprise customers and we have seen how companies create applications. And now that we have moved to cloud computing, mobile, social and the Internet of Things, we see that the market needs a new way of creating applications," stated Jesse Shiah, CEO, President and Co-Founder of AgilePoint Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 15th Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Dec. 17, 2014 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,471
SYS-CON Events announced today that Gridstore™, the leader in hyper-converged infrastructure purpose-built to optimize Microsoft workloads, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Gridstore™ is the leader in hyper-converged infrastructure purpose-built for Microsoft workloads and designed to accelerate applications in virtualized environments. Gridstore's hyper-converged infrastructure is the industry's first all flash version of HyperConverged Appliances that include both compute and storag...
Dec. 17, 2014 06:30 PM EST Reads: 1,422
Today's enterprise is being driven by disruptive competitive and human capital requirements to provide enterprise application access through not only desktops, but also mobile devices. To retrofit existing programs across all these devices using traditional programming methods is very costly and time consuming – often prohibitively so. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jesse Shiah, CEO, President, and Co-Founder of AgilePoint Inc., discussed how you can create applications that run on all mobile devices as well as laptops and desktops using a visual drag-and-drop application – and eForms-buildi...
Dec. 17, 2014 11:45 AM EST Reads: 1,582
We certainly live in interesting technological times. And no more interesting than the current competing IoT standards for connectivity. Various standards bodies, approaches, and ecosystems are vying for mindshare and positioning for a competitive edge. It is clear that when the dust settles, we will have new protocols, evolved protocols, that will change the way we interact with devices and infrastructure. We will also have evolved web protocols, like HTTP/2, that will be changing the very core of our infrastructures. At the same time, we have old approaches made new again like micro-services...
Dec. 16, 2014 11:45 PM EST Reads: 1,430
Code Halos - aka "digital fingerprints" - are the key organizing principle to understand a) how dumb things become smart and b) how to monetize this dynamic. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robert Brown, AVP, Center for the Future of Work at Cognizant Technology Solutions, outlined research, analysis and recommendations from his recently published book on this phenomena on the way leading edge organizations like GE and Disney are unlocking the Internet of Things opportunity and what steps your organization should be taking to position itself for the next platform of digital competition.
Dec. 15, 2014 11:45 PM EST Reads: 1,789
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
Dec. 15, 2014 10:30 AM EST Reads: 6,940
As the Internet of Things unfolds, mobile and wearable devices are blurring the line between physical and digital, integrating ever more closely with our interests, our routines, our daily lives. Contextual computing and smart, sensor-equipped spaces bring the potential to walk through a world that recognizes us and responds accordingly. We become continuous transmitters and receivers of data. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Andrew Bolwell, Director of Innovation for HP's Printing and Personal Systems Group, discussed how key attributes of mobile technology – touch input, sensors, social, and ...
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Unless you have been asleep behind the wheel of your network, you know the IPv6 Internet will go live on June 6th, 2012 and Cisco is taking a leading role. If you didn't make it to Paris a few weeks back for v6 World Congress there are two upcoming events in Denver, Colorado where you can learn about deploying IPv6 in your network: March 20 and April 9-11.
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UCS: new innovations in systems management, high performance virtual I/O and server technology
Please don your data center propeller hats and follow me for a tour of third generation fabric computing. To zoom out to the big picture of what all this new technology means, please take a look at this earlier post.
On the management front we have two new things to talk about:
1) Freeing the server administrators from the tyranny of sheet metal. UCS manager delivers total administrative parity across server form factors, and now supports connectivity for greater quantities of C-Series racks in a UCS system. When you get right down to it, servers are just different combinations of processing, memory, local disk and I/O capability. Some combinations happen to be best as blades, some happen to be best as rack mounts, but we shouldn't have to care about the shape of the sheet metal when it comes to systems management. With UCS you don't. Rack and blade all show up together as resources available and managed in a unified, self-integrating system, complete with an XML API. Unified management in UCS lets us finally think outside the box when we deploy and manage compute infrastructure.
2) Multi-UCS Manager: this might be the most important part of this announcement because it takes UCS well over the horizon in terms of scalability. Multi-UCS Manager, as the name implies, is the capability to manage across multiple instances of UCS. This allows for synchronization of service profiles, common pools of unique identifiers and centralized visibility and control across many thousands of servers. Multi-UCS Manager takes the underlying policy based management philosophy of UCS and literally globalizes it, with the capability to manage UCS instances within a single data or around the world. Scheduled for availability in 2HCY12, this is big news and there will be more to come on this topic.
New UCS I/O components:
1) Last year we introduced the 6248 Fabric Interconnect, with unified ports, 40% latency reduction and increased system bandwidth. Here comes its big brother, the 6296, weighing in at 2U, 96 ports, sub-2µs latency and a whopping 2Tb of switching capacity. That means more flexibility and capacity in an architecture that puts all the servers in the system one network hop away from each other, be they blades or racks.
2) A new I/O module for the UCS blade chassis, the 2204XP. This fabric extender doubles the amount of bandwidth that can be provisioned to each chassis to 160Gb.
3) Finally, but probably the most exciting for the server geeks among us: the VIC1240. This is the Cisco Virtual Interface Card now embedded in the new B200 M3 blade server. The VIC 1240 is a dual 20Gb LOM with high performance virtualization that comes standard. An expander module can double the trouble to 4x20Gb. By my math that's 80Gb to a single slot blade: so how do you use it all? With Adapter-FEX technology, the VIC can carve that pipe into 256 vNICs or vHBAs that can be presented to a bare metal OS. VM-FEX technology takes it a step further, allowing those virtual adapters to be connected directly with virtual machines. The VIC can also be configured to bypass hypervisor switching which offloads that work from your processors and reduces proc utilization up to 30%. Moving virtual switching to the VIC also improves throughput by up to 10% and improves application performance by up to 15%. The idea here is to bring virtual I/O to near-bare metal levels and allow more applications to be virtualized -- which means greater operational agility and service resiliency.
Don't forget the servers! By the end of this year we'll have roughly doubled the number of servers in the UCS portfolio. Here's how we're kicking things off:
1) Two new rack servers: the C220 M3 and C240 M3. It's best to compare at the specs here on the product pages, because these are feature loaded and my fingers are tired. They are of course based on Intel's screaming hot new Xeon E5-2600 processor family, which was announced on Tuesday. We like to say Cisco and Intel are joined at the chip, after all. In addition to bringing new horse power and efficiency gains, the key differentiator for these machines is that they can be managed right alongside B-Series blades in one big happy pool of abstracted server resources, by UCS Manager.
2) The B200 M3. One of the upshots of the UCS architecture is that we've pulled all the switches and systems management modules out of the blade chassis. This leaves more room, power and cold air for computing, which manifests itself here in a single-slot blade with 24 DIMM slots and up to three quarter terabytes of RAM. Server architecture, much like life, though, is all about balance. That's where the Xeon E5-2600 processors and the aforementioned VIC1240 (80Gb of I/O!) come in. The B200 M3 brings an industry leading set of capability to this class of blade and is a fantastic add to the UCS family.
One of the best things about UCS is forward and backward compatibility: all generations of product are fully interoperable which yields strong investment protection. Modular yet unified. The Zen of computing architecture, if you will. In fact, we're putting a stake in the ground: the dramatically simplified blade chassis Cisco introduced to the industry 2009 will take customers through the end of this decade. Good through 2020…you heard it here first. Just think how young Paul will still look in this video by then :)
My colleagues will post today to talk about how all of this nets out in application performance, and it's a very good story indeed. In the meantime we've posted up some easy to read performance briefs. Also, don't forget that we have a "view 3D model" link right under the product pictures for all these new additions. If you want to take a close look that's a fun way to do it. Thanks for coming along.
Tags: blades, cloud, data center, Servers, UCS, unified computing system, Unified Data Center
Introducing third generation fabric computing: Cisco UCS and the power of unification
Unified Computing was born on March 16th, 2009 and bold predictions were made that day regarding what UCS would do for customers and the industry. If we take a trip in the way back machine and unearth some of actual slides from that event (thank you Mr. Peabody), here is what we find:
Three years later we know that the vision of what was needed was spot on and the predictions of the impact were actually too conservative. Customers using UCS are telling us they're experiencing:
80 percent increase in administrator productivity
90 percent reduction in deployment times
40 percent improvement in application performance
30 percent lower infrastructure costs
60 percent reduction in power and cooling costs
And now it gets even better. Today brings new innovation across the UCS platform: a third generation of technology that delivers the power of unification and continues to lead the transition to fabric based data center infrastructure. Most of all in this announcement we're celebrating how the innovation in UCS is paying off for our customers. Its one thing to have a vision and another to deliver on it: this week Gartner updated its Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers and Cisco moved from Visionary to Leader.
Witness the world record application performance benchmark results posted by Intel in this launch. UCS certainly isn't the new kid on the server block anymore. This system more than holds its own.
So enough of the rhetoric: where's the beef in the new news? It turns out that there is so much new technology here that I need to break it into another post…
Tags: blades, data center, Servers, UCS, unified computing, Unified Data Center
Video Apps for Government
This week is National Telework week. I'm working from home using WebEx video to collaborate with Cisco colleagues around the world.
My 3-day telework pledge will save me $81.90 in transporation costs and 122 pounds of pollutants for the week. If I continue the 3-day telework routine for a year, I will save $4,095 in transporation costs and 6,120 pounds of pollutants or 3.06 tons for the year. Imagine how much we could all save if every government worker and citizen was able to use network collaboration and video to work from home.
Also this week, the President members of the Pacific Alliance participated in the first Virtual Presidential Summit through TelePresence without the need to travel. During the 90-minute "Historic Presidential Summit," the Presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica and Panama (by telephone) were able to specify the fundamental points for the signature of the treaty for the "Pacific Alliance."
There are many exciting video applications for government including:
- Telework
- Government leader summits and meetings: The Australian Government is using TelePresence to meet face to face without the need for costly travel
- Public safety and collaborative incident response
- Training and Distance Learning
- Connected Justice: Law enforcement, courts, and corrections
Please let me know how you are using video apps in your government agency to cut costs and enhance services for citizens and constituents in your community.
Tags: Connected Government, Connected Justice, TelePresence, telework, video conferencing, WebEX
CRM, Metrics and the B2B Marketer
Marketing is transforming. We're aligning closer to sales, owning more of the revenue pipeline and being held more accountable. To be a successful marketer we need understand our customers' and potential customers' needs and behaviors so that we can respond effectively with appropriate messages about our products and services. CRM systems allow us to do this. The data housed inside a CRM system can help close sales faster, retain customers, find new customers, and offer superior customer service – all things that ultimately increase revenue. So why is it that less than 50% of executives are fully satisfied with the business benefits of CRM? How can we ensure that at least for marketing that we are maximizing the investment in our CRM tools and leveraging them to drive the right kind of engagement with customers and prospects?
Tags: b2b marketing, business goals, Cisco partner marketing, crm, data, marketing automation


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February 4-5, 2015, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Dalton Theatre, Kalamazoo College
Dr. Sandra Snow, guest clinician
Professor of Choral Conducting and Music Education, Michigan State University
Ten select Michigan choirs and their directors are invited to participate in an all-day choral Master Class. The public is welcome to attend as audience members for this special youth workshop.
March 23-24, 2015
Southwest Michigan Middle Schools
Dr. Kristina Boerger, guest clinician
Interim Director of DePauw University Choirs
Inspiring choral students in the intermediate grades for the last eight years, Dr. Kristina Boerger returns to Kalamazoo to work on-site with middle school students and their directors.
Competition: Saturday, March 14, 2015, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Award Concert: Saturday, April 11, 2015, 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Recital Hall, Kalamazoo College
The Bach Festival's annual Young Vocalists Competition attracts an exciting array of young singers from across the Midwest. Vocalists from both high school and college divisions compete for prize money as well as a chance to perform in the Winners' Concert. Both the competition and concert are open and free to the public.


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We stayed at this Inn before. This is our second time. I don't know if they gave us an older room, or within 6 months it fell apart. Wallpaper coming off the walls, I had to stuff tissues in the bottom of the door, the opening was big enough a small animal could get in or bugs. Bed was okay, room cleaned okay, just not happy with surroundings. We have stayed at other Quality's and I thought it was a bit pricey. It is conveniant to walk to Cracker Barrel next door, and it is a half way stop on our travels from Florida. The people are always nice at the desk. Breakfast, not one of the best, have had better, and we aren't fussy in the morning. Went to Cracker Barrel. Have to think twice before returning, there is another hotel in the area. I belong to Choice Hotels and Quality is on their list. Gave them my card and they couldn't find me. Had no problem at other hotels. Have to check up on this yet.
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Awesome place! Really friendly staff, lots of flavor choices, good business practices (concern for your well-being and having a positive experience), and great prices compared to elsewhere in India (about $2-3 per drink). Ask about the cookies!
***To find this place-the actual original-it is located right near the entrance of the fort. There is another with the same name around the other side of the fort which serves these lassis, but I heard that they do not have the same quality/standards and concern for customers.
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