Technology

Cisco Provides Solutions as Organizations Prepare for IoT

July 13, 2015 John Mark Ivey Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

By 2020, Cisco estimates that nearly 50 billion devices and objects will be connected to the Internet. That’s ten zeros! While only one percent of things in the physical world are connected today, more and more organizations, namely companies and governments, are deploying solutions for the oncoming Internet of Things (IoT) era.

PMP Formula of the Week: Forecasting a Necessary CPI

July 13, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Your project has not been performing well from the beginning from a budget standpoint. The project BAC is $1,000,000 and it is 50 percent complete from an Earned Value (EV) standpoint. The Cost Performance Index (CPI) is calculated to be 0.8. Your project sponsor wants to know what CPI the project must perform at for the last 50 percent of the project for the project to come in at budget. The answer, of course, is 1.2. The numbers used in this scenario allow the answer to be logically estimated. A CPI of 0.8 for the first half of the project and a CPI of 1.2 for the second half of the project averages out at a CPI of 1.0. But, what if the project data were not so rounded? The new project data is 46 percent of the work is complete, and CPI is 0.78 The project work is expected to continue, from a cost standpoint, to the project end similar to the first 46 percent What CPI must the project perform at over the last 54 percent of the work for the project to come in at budget?

Leading Virtual Teams – Keys to Success

July 10, 2015 Michelle Moore Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

In today’s global and technology-enabled environment, working in virtual teams has become the norm rather than the exception. Companies expect employees to collaborate and work in both formal and informal virtual teams and contribute in a productive way to business results. The issue is that working virtually presents a set of communication and leadership challenges that leaders have not had to deal with in the past.

CCNP Security Question of the Week: ASA AIP-SSM and ASA AIP-SSC

July 10, 2015 Johnny Bass Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Which of the following features are supported on the Cisco ASA AIP-SSM, but not supported on the Cisco ASA AIP-SSC? (Choose four.)

SAP HANA is Like LED Floodlights for Business Data

July 9, 2015 Jim Brogden Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

“Bigger and faster” is a major understatement when describing the raw power of today’s high-performance databases and database appliances. Unless you’ve been stranded on a deserted island in the South Pacific and have a volleyball named Wilson, you’ve probably heard terms like big data, columnar databases and predictive analytics more times than you’d like to admit. But there’s a good reason for that — we’re living in a database revolution and these terms describe tools that are nothing short of transformative to nearly any type of business.