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Accelerating Customer Success with the Cisco Platinum Learning Library
Cisco’s goal is to drive better business outcomes and create new market opportunities for our customers. And one of the fundamental ways this can be achieved is by helping them develop talent truly capable of addressing digital business transformation needs. With skilled employees trained and certif…
3 Ways to Reinvent Yourself as a Network Engineer
As the Network Engineering job role changes, Learning@Cisco and DevNet provide resources for skills transition. Network engineering, as a job role, has shifted dramatically over the past 20 years. In the past, network engineers were responsible for keeping the network up and running, but the job rol…
Essential Skills for an Entirely New Era in Networking
The Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced a burgeoning number of network connections, connecting everything from homes to cars to space stations. There are about 8.4 billion devices in use today, and industry analysts’ project there will be 63 million new connections per second in 2020. IT profess…
Securing Your Data in the Transformation to Digital
I recently had the opportunity to participate in a joint webinar between Cisco and Global Knowledge Canada to discuss Cisco’s latest cybersecurity industry research, the security challenges organizations face today, and how organizations can mitigate risks. After a detailed conversation with Brad Ha…
Creating the Workforce of Digitization
Digitization is changing every part of today’s enterprise. To take advantage of new business opportunities, organizations are moving quickly to design and deploy new technologies like cloud, mobility, analytics, the IoT and next-generation security. The challenge is finding the workforce skilled in…
Aligning the Analytics and Data Center Workforce to Evolving Job Roles
In the new digital era, the ability to connect data, processes and experiences are becoming critical elements of successful digital business transformation. Enterprises need to access data from anywhere, analyze it, and make real-time decisions to fuel innovation and accelerate data-driven business…
Celebrating Two Decades of Empowering Learners With the Tools for Success
Traditional IT jobs are morphing, requiring new abilities. Not only that, but technologies are moving faster than the expertise needed to grapple with them. Without a rich talent pool armed with the latest IT skills, organizations cannot fully realize the business outcomes, productivity gains and ef…
Closing the talent gap to secure the future: Cisco rolls out $10 million cybersecurity scholarship
Finding – and keeping – the cybersecurity talent required for today’s digital economy is a serious challenge. And it’s getting worse. Here at Cisco, we’re perpetually hearing from employers and hiring managers about their struggles with the growing cybersecurity skills gap. How bad is it? Well, the…
CCNA Routing & Switching Certification for the New Digital Landscape
We’ve all watched as companies like Uber, Airbnb, Square and even Amazon have fundamentally changed the way we interact, consume and buy. Traditional business models have been completely flipped on their heads and the lines between business sectors have become blurred. Whether you are an IT network…