Executive Platform

At the end of the day, technology is at its best when it’s helping people – empowering them to accomplish their goals. Whether that’s members of my team envisioning new products or supporting our current ones – or customers doing more with less and being smarter in their business – that’s when…

With the deadline to the enforcement of the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) fast approaching (May 25), I have been spending more time with Cisco’s Marketing Privacy team making sure we are ready. As a company, our customers’ privacy is of the utmost important to us and we want to…

There’s always an inherent challenge between providing a secure infrastructure for your applications and delivering agility. How do you manage a complex web – where apps are dynamic and distributed across your own data center and the cloud – and keep security at the front of your priorities? I…

Portugal is home to one of Europe’s most promising technology ecosystems. Lisbon hosts Web Summit, one of the largest and fastest-growing tech conferences in the world, and Portugal’s startup community has seen staggering growth over the past few years. Government programs like Startup Portugal, a n…

Co-authored by John Apostolopoulos, VP & CTO Enterprise Networking Business, and Lab Director for Innovation Labs   IT is facing a seemingly impossible tradeoff. On one hand, IT teams have to move faster to keep pace with the needs of the organization – making changes, rolling out new appl…

The transportation industry is undergoing unprecedented disruption that we read about in news every day.  Several companies are envisioning how transportation of humans and cargo will work in the future – from self-driving cars to magnetic levitation trains. Due to this renewed technology-driven reb…

If you’re anything like me, your mobile device is your lifeline, allowing you to be always on and connected to a network.  Smart devices, including our cars and appliances, are now connected to a network. We’ve seen steady advances in wireless technology and now we’re seeing trials of 5G connectivit…

For the past few years, all of us in the industry have been talking about 5G.  Much of the discussion has been around the excitement of new spectrum and radios to enable that – it was all about ENABLING 5G. This year is different – the discussion now is about what we are all DOING with 5G. There are…

If you live in the US and have been watching any of the Winter Olympics coverage on NBC, you may have seen the amazing ads celebrating the women taking part in the games. Many of the spots are sponsored by companies such as P&G, AT&T, USAA, Verizon, and NBC Universal and they are broadcast m…