Executive Platform

At Cisco, we pride ourselves on our strong, clear and inclusive brand values. It’s the reason we have one of the most loyal customer communities. And it’s why the value of our brand continues to rise on the Interbrand Top 100 Global Brands list, this year hitting almost $32B in value and #16 in the…

Co-Authored by Doc Watson, Group Executive: Cisco Alliance, Dimension Data and Karen Walker, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Cisco For 27 years, Dimension Data and Cisco have been partners in delivering on a greater good for the world. In 2015, with a shared passion for protecting…

I’ve always been passionate about STEM education and the opportunities it creates for the next generation. I’m proud to be a board member at the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation given their mission to inspire the innovator in everyone. One of my favorite parts of being a board member is participat…

Innovation is the life blood of our company.  We invest more than $6 billion annually in research and development, and have over 14,000 issued US patents, reflecting the strength of that investment.  A strong, balanced US patent system is important to us to ensure that others don’t profit without ou…

Some of you may be surprised to learn about Cisco’s involvement in the open source community. In fact, we’ve been working with open source technologies for close to 20 years. We are heavily invested. Our releases of Cisco CloudCenter 4.9 and AppDynamics for Kubernetes today are not only milestones i…

10/29/18 Update: Permira funds has completed the acquisition of Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software Solutions (SPVSS) business and created a new company named Synamedia.   I would like to share with you an important change we are making in our Service Provider (SP) video business. Today, Ci…

The Internet of Things has changed the game for network professionals. Instead of being responsible for keeping people’s computers and smartphones online and keeping the data on servers secure, on today’s networks, network professionals are becoming responsible for keeping new kinds of devices – and…

Last week I was fortunate to attend the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston. In its 39th year, Simmons is considered the premiere professional development event for women. Each year thousands of women, and a small contingent of men, gather together to learn, share, and exchange ideas. The theme…

Security has changed a lot over the last 20 years, and the way we work has changed even more in the last five. Organizations around the globe are pushing the boundaries of what is possible, from both innovation and operational standpoints. On a weekly basis, I meet with customers who tell me how th…