Kip Compton

We’ve all been there. Fired up our online banking app only to get a server error. Tried to buy something online but the app times out before we can complete the process. Attempted to download an online catalog only to have the image loading stall. Customers today have high expectations for how apps…

I recently had a great experience attending Cisco’s third annual Leader Day which happened to fall on a pretty historic day for us — the day Cisco was named the #1 World’s Best Workplace by Great Places to Work. We took a moment to celebrate this exciting recognition, but then dove in to the f…

Containers are an important technology for customers in their efforts to accelerate application innovation. At Cisco, we’ve been working across our ecosystem to offer solutions to help our customers deploy and manage container infrastructure and applications across on-premises and our partner’s clou…

It wasn’t that long ago that many people thought moving everything to the cloud would be simple and cost-effective – and cloud would somehow make everything easier. The reality is that cloud was anything but simple. Balancing the need to manage costs with enabling speed and business agility became a…

I’m excited to head to Stockholm next month for the annual NSO Developer Days conference which runs from June 18-20. This is one of my favorite events because it’s a great opportunity for developers from around the globe to engage in talks, hands-on learning with experts, and previews of our latest…

Today at Google Cloud NEXT, David Goeckeler unveiled the next phase of our journey with Google Cloud: the expansion of our multicloud and hybrid collaboration to include Google Cloud’s Anthos. Multicloud and hybrid cloud are a reality for the majority of our customers as more enterprises expan…

Today is International Women’s Day and there is so much to be thoughtful about — top of mind for me is my mom and how important she was in helping me develop a growth mindset. The core of my own approach to growth centered on a fundamental lesson I learned from her: that when you put in…

Disruptive innovation was top of mind at Mobile World Congress last week. Service providers are constantly exploring new ways to bring compelling service offers to their customers quickly. One of the challenges, however, is that many of these new services exist in their own technology and operationa…

In my last blog post, I talked about how we are seeing more and more use cases where customers are using multiple clouds to build the next generation of digital experiences. It’s clear to me that many of these cloud use cases involve successfully spanning across multiple environments on and off-prem…