Inside Cisco IT

Major movie theaters in my area have been offering reserved seating for quite a while. Customers can order tickets and choose their seats weeks in advance, either online or directly at the theater.  With a little forethought, a person can watch a new movie as soon as it comes out without worrying ab…

Cisco Live Barcelona’s roaming reporters are done roaming and reporting, for now. After a week filled with plentiful interaction, hard work and fluctuations between chaos and entertainment, the team successfully delivered six full fledged videos and four commercials in a span of four days! Whe…

✅Hotel and Flights. ✅Passport. ✅Laptop bag. ✅Camera charged and ready. That’s it! The Cisco IT Roaming Reporters are ready to descend on the IT Management Program at Cisco Live in Barcelona once again. We’re excited to get back into the thick of the action and meet everyo…

With 12,000 Cisco UCS servers installed in 22 company data centers worldwide, Cisco IT had a big challenge tracking when individual UCS units were due for replacement as part of our infrastructure refresh program. Compounding the problem: Many different server models were installed at different time…

Software localization is often an afterthought instead of being embedded into projects from the start. In 2017, we started a localization project for the software-fulfillment process in our Tokyo office. The regional team had approached us because partners and end customers were having a “broken” us…

Will the last person to leave the computer room please turn off the equipment? That’s not a phrase that tends to be uttered around business critical Data Centers or computer labs.  Shut down electronic devices that have been running for long periods of time and there’s a chance they won’t come back…

If you fell asleep in a ’90s data center and woke up in a modern one, you’d know instantly. But if you dozed off in your office and woke up 25 years later, it’s possible you’d be none the wiser until you confronted the espresso machine. In the ’90s, we added one building a month to our San Jose camp…

In Cisco IT’s role as Customer Zero, we have been partnering with the security business group to test-drive the new Firepower 6.3 software. Our ultimate goal is to help improve the code before it is released to our customers. To put our money where our mouth is, we deployed the code into our product…

Cisco Live empieza la próxima semana, ¡y la intensidad se siente a nivel máximo! ¡Cisco Live Cancún te presentará experiencias como nunca antes! Esperamos una asistencia de aproximadamente 5,500 personas, de las cuales cerca de 500 atenderán el IT Management (ITM) program. 48% de estos atenderán ITM…