Perspectives

Why do some transformations succeed and other fail? I read some research recently from PMI, Gartner and other sources saying that 71% of IT projects are failures — 19% are utter failures. Another survey found that 51% of digital transformation projects had stalled or been abandoned altogether. Clear…

We’re very excited about the upcoming 2019 IT Blog Awards, and we hope you feel the same.  Before this year’s awards officially kicks off, we’re looking for feedback from our community on what you’d like to see as categories and for prizes.  If you haven’t yet, please let us know your thoughts…

This is an exciting time of year.  Not only are we in the thick of our summer experiences—enjoying all of the fun activities this warm weather affords—but, most importantly, we are gearing up for the 2019 IT Blog Awards.  Yes, you read that right.  It’s almost that time again.  And what better way t…

Have you tried Cisco DNA Center?  We recently sat down with Cisco’s JP Vasseur, 20 year veteran of Cisco and the guy driving our Machine Learning & AI team to talk through what’s new in this episode of Cisco Champion Radio [<– Click on the magic link to hear!].  Cisco Champs…

Just a few weeks ago, we highlighted Daniel Dib, one of the seven awesome winners of the 2018 IT Blog Awards, hosted by Cisco. Since then, we traveled to beautiful, sunny San Diego to participate in all of the amazing Cisco Live US 2019 activities. This was a particularly exciting year, as the 2018…

In this episode of Cisco Champion Radio, we chat with Stuart Clark of Cisco DevNet and Rick Sherman of Puppet about network automation. Our Cisco Champion hosts are Daren Fulwell and Pieter-Jan Nefkens. Podcast Discussion Topics Various ways to do network integration, it isn’t all Python! What mak…

In November 2018, the first-ever IT Blog Awards, hosted by Cisco, set off on a mission to recognize some of the best blogs in the tech industry.  One thing was abundantly clear: Our community is full of hardworking bloggers.  As a result, we wanted to help highlight some of these great blogs while f…

In this episode of Cisco Champion Radio, we chat with Adrian Iliesiu about developing with SD-WAN and how you can streamline your workflow with vManage. Interviewing Adrian are Cisco Champion hosts, Daren Fulwell and David Peñaloza. Podcast Discussion Topics Components of Cisco’s SD-WAN solution v…

In this episode of Cisco Champion Radio, we chat with Darryl Sladden about the evolution of Cisco’s location technologies as well as the operational insights inside Cisco DNA Spaces. Interviewing Darryl is Cisco Champion host, Daren Fulwell. Podcast Discussion Topics The evolution of Cisco’s locat…