Patty Medberry

The world of IoT continues to grow as our more than 70,000 customers take their deployments to the next level. Whether or not you are attending Cisco Live in Barcelona on January 27th – 30th, you will want to tune in. Cisco will be making a lot of announcements, and addressing these three IoT trends…

It seems that every day brings a new development to IoT. Our customers are trying to figure out how new products and new technologies can help their business and overcome the complexities of IoT.  They often tell me that there is so much information out there, that it is difficult to know what or wh…

When people think of networking, they think of Cisco. But in the industrial networking space, sometimes that isn’t the case. In the past, organizations connecting areas such as manufacturing floors, oil rigs, traffic intersections relied on specialized vendors for their industrial IoT networking nee…

I am not alone. According to The New York Times, roughly 43% of Americans work remotely at least part of the time. This represents a huge change in traditional work paradigms: Businesses are a lot less rigid because they realize that in most cases, where people work is less important than the actual…

We’ve worked passionately over the last few years to deliver the best collaboration products and solutions on the market. And we continue to march toward our vision to bring all communication modes together for amazing experiences on any device. This vision includes delivery on-premises, from the cl…

Introducing Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution for Government Security has never been more important. This is especially true for our U.S. federal, state and local government customers. Their employees and their constituents have become more mobile and more virtual. They expect communications beyon…

Last week, Gartner named Cisco a leader in its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications. Gartner placed our “dot” highest and furthest right for vision and execution among the participating vendors. In a related post, Tom McCafferty provides insight about the process of participating in Gartne…

If you are like 72% of organizations globally, your network still has some or all TDM and/or analog endpoints according to Nemertes Research. This is an astounding fact. Almost nowhere in the industry (including in this blog) do people talk about time division multiplexing (TDM) anymore. What’s more…

If you like the idea of Cisco Spark, you will love it with Cisco Spark Hybrid Services. On its own, Cisco Spark is a compelling tool: I can message, meet, and call and get my work done with all my teammates. Pretty cool. But, not everyone or everything is in Cisco Spark. So to be really compelling,…