Digitization

According to Cisco’s Workforce of the Future survey, employees want to keep hold of many positives that emerged in our new way of working.

In the last few months the world has ‘gone digital’. Internet traffic increased by 20-40%. 1.5 billion students have now moved to remote education.

To support the Municipality of Turin during these unprecedented times Cisco has donated a number of free WebEx accounts and physical Telepresence systems to allow municipal authorities to communicate with the media. It has also donated a number of DX80 Teleconferencing systems to a nursing home allowing elderly guests to continue to meet their relatives virtually.

Cisco's second 'Digital Readiness' Index, published last month, paints a picture of EMEAR as a region that is performing well on the global stage, particularly in areas such as infrastructure adoption. However, it suggests that significant ‘digital divides’ still remain...

For IT to drive Digital Transformation initiatives a bridge is required between the language of IT and the needs of the business. That’s exactly the mission that Cisco’s Business Architecture Centre of Excellence was set up to address.

AI presents an extremely useful range of tools that can help us turn enormous data pools into information we can use to make organisations more secure, networks easier to manage, and businesses more profitable.

At the Cisco Connect conference, Cisco outlined its commitment to support the digitization of Africa’s communities, businesses, and governments through several initiatives for skills and talent development, innovation and job creation.

The goal of DevNet is to create a community of infrastructure and application developers and give them hands-on experience and insights via pre-packaged tutorials, instructor-led teaching by highly qualified sales engineers and rewarding through games.

Building on the success of previous events around the world, Cisco’s DevNet Express was recently expanded into Lebanon