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Education at Cisco Live!
Our biggest event of the year kicks off on Monday, and we wanted to give you all the information you’ll need to follow along with Education at Cisco Live US in San Diego! Visit us in the Industries booth in the Cisco Showcase to speak with our Education experts and see live demos of select Cisco sol…
A Week Away from Cisco Live US, Preview Our Plans to Showcase Education
Starting on Monday, 30,000 of the greatest minds and talents in tech and business will descend upon Orlando for Cisco Live! A unique opportunity to acquire leading knowledge and advanced skills related to transformative technologies, Cisco Live (June 10-14th at the Orange County Convention Center) b…
Improving the Student Experience Across Campus
This is the third post in our series about evolving student opportunity. You can read the first post on Access here, and the second post on Engagement here. Extending access is the necessary first step toward empowering students. Necessary, yet insufficient. The second post in this series explored h…
The Surprisingly High Cost of Malware in Schools — And How to Stop It
Compared to banks and enterprise corporations and government agencies, who would think that schools would be prime targets for cyberattacks? Surprisingly, education is actually the industry most at risk of ransomware attacks, with 13 percent of education organizations falling victim.[1] One reason f…
Translating Access into Student Engagement
In prior posts, we’ve talked a lot about access as the fundamental building block of student success, the first step in the process of evolving student opportunity. But access alone doesn’t yield results. What does access give you? Information. Resources. Raw inputs. Bricks with which to build. Lear…
Access: A Tale of Three Academics
It’s 2am. Four college students are huddled around a laptop and a whiteboard. Unfolded laundry is littered across the bed. A crumpled bag of chips lies face down on the desk, spilling salt across the scattered pages of a forgotten problem set. Speakers are humming lowly with the rhythms of the top 4…
To Err Is Human, To Understand Is Big Data
High-performance computing – or HPC – fuels groundbreaking research. To show you how this powerful technology can be used across disciplines in higher education, we’ve started a high-performance computing series that provides real use cases for these supercomputers. Today, we’re talking big data. If…
Black Holes and Dying Stars: A High Performance Computing Use Case
High-performance computing – or HPC – fuels groundbreaking research. This isn’t news to scientists, but most researchers studying fields other than quantum mechanics and molecular modeling probably don’t realize that they can use a supercomputer to ramp up their analysis. This power, historically re…
Calling All Superheroes
In just a few short days, we’ll be joined by thousands of IT professionals and business leaders from around the United States at Cisco Live. Their mission? To build connections, drive professional growth and empower innovation. This year, Cisco Live US is all about the champions of configuration; th…