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Cisco Live 2016 is just around the corner and it's ready to rock in Las Vegas this time. Cisco Live is known for providing the knowledge enterprises need to flourish in their respective digital business.  Other than being an inspiration, Cisco Live also brings opportunities to meet numerous technology innovators, thousands of education sessions, IT visionary leaders, important partners of Cisco, and various opportunities to connect with relevant people and flourish business. This year at Cisco Live you can explore topics and sessions, like Enterprise Networking, IoT, Network Management systems, Network Transformation, Cloud, Digitization, Data center and many more. Calsoft recommend attending all keynotes to comprehend cisco’s strategy on new technologies. Also, do not miss out on Cisco Live’s innovation Talks. It talks about contemporary innovations and its challenges in important areas like security, cloud, network technology and collaboration. Key attractions for this year C...

Nowadays industry is giving a lot more importance to User Experience (UX) to keep their users happy. Everybody, right from the business decision makers, marketing to product managers are focusing on an easy, intuitive and interactive User Interface (UI).  It has become a De-facto in product or service based industry. Before moving ahead let us define UX. What is User Experience (UX)? According to the International Organization for Standardization, User Experience can be defined as “person’s perceptions and responses resulting from the use and or anticipated use of a product, system or service”. In simple terms UX is how a user feels while interacting with a digital product. That digital product could be a website or a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for a software product. UX depends on many factors, some of them can be controlled by designers and developers while others are user preference. Some of these factors include: Utility (How useful is the product) Usability (How easil...

In recent times there are many storage players embarking into the market and the competition is fierce. Storage vendors would not like to be behind in offering rich features in their products to attract customers. In addition, there are FUDs around dealing storage in a traditional ways due to advent of many disruptive technologies and the trend is going to grow upward in coming days. This blog focuses only on data reduction features offered by primary storage vendors in general and its benefits and downsides. Data reduction in storage means attempt to store lesser data in disks versus the amount of user data generated. This implies increasing storage efficiency in terms of capacity and hence reduced costs. Let’s understand further on this and its implications to customers. Data reduction in storage can be achieved using several techniques. De-duplication and compression are the two prominent techniques being used since backup storage times and they have gained much significance in p...