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Express Yourself with Webex Teams and Giphy
Express Yourself with GIFs in Webex Teams With GIPHY Integration for Cisco Webex Teams, expressing yourself has never been easier! Today we announce a Webex Teams feature that I’m excited about. Webex Teams now supports Giphy in order to express your feelings and bring more excitement to collaborat…
Webex Innovations Drive Change
It always fascinates me to watch a film set in the past – maybe 30 to 50 years ago – when that film includes depictions of people at work, to see how different things were back then. Writing inter-office memos! Cold-calling someone to ask a question and getting routed to voicemail where you can leav…
Cisco Spark and Webex Platform Convergence: More than a Rebrand
This week at Cisco’s Collaboration Summit in Phoenix, we made a series of significant announcements regarding the convergence of the Cisco Webex and Spark platforms. This included a new Webex Meetings application, a new Webex Teams application (formerly known as Cisco Spark), the new Webex Assistant…
Cisco Spark Achieves HIPAA Compliance
Today marks another big step in the forward progress of Cisco Spark for its adoption in enterprises worldwide. Cisco Spark is now ready for use in healthcare consistent with customer needs for HIPAA compliance! The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a U.S. healthcare law…
Introducing the Industry’s Next Video Codec: AV1
Today’s announcement from the Alliance for Open Media is a big one for the industry. Today, after three years of collaborative innovation amongst many technology companies, the next generation video codec has arrived. Welcome, AV1! AV1 is a product of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM). AOM was foun…
On-Premises or Cloud Video Conferencing? How About Both?
Traditionally, the video conferencing market has been very firmly divided into premises-based products and cloud-based products. Premises-based products still dominate, though there is significant growth in cloud-based solutions. With premises products, IT departments deploy servers that they own an…
Meltdown, Spectre, and Cisco Cloud Collaboration Security
I wanted to provide a few quick answers to questions that we’re being asked about the implications of Meltdown and Spectre on the security of Cisco’s cloud collaboration portfolio. These vulnerabilities are most relevant in multi-tenant cloud environments, where they create the possibility that Cisc…
Meltdown Proves that the Industry Needs a Better Answer for Protecting Cloud Content
Security researchers announced this week that they had discovered a significant vulnerability in almost every computer on the planet. This vulnerability – actually two related ones called Meltdown and Spectre – allow a malicious application running on a computer to peek into the memory of another ap…
Cisco Spark Achieves ISO27001 Certification!
Today is a big day for Cisco Spark – we’ve officially received our ISO27001 certification! For those unfamiliar with it – this certification gives our customers confidence that we’re following best practices around operating a secure cloud service. Indeed, many customers even require their vendors t…
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