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Hello Friends, I would like to announce the first week’s winner is Nathan Parker of Mallard Computer in Arkansas! Nathan (@mallardnathan) will be receiving his “care package” in a couple of weeks. Congratulations to you! Please stay tuned here for updates, and please continue to en…

It is Christmas Eve here, and my family is making cookies. Soon, more family will be coming over. We have a whole list of things that need to be cut, prepared and cooked. And, I cannot wait. My family indeed enjoys this time of year, especially when we will be at Mammoth Mountain next week! But bef…

Hello and Happy Holidays to you around the world. As we get closer to the end of 2016, we thought it would be fun to highlight a new medium for you that we have been working on. We are lucky to have an incredible group of interns at the University of Santa Cruz, led by Gabriel Rulon. We have come ou…

Friends, The team is excited, especially our FindIT Product Manager, David Harper for the announcement of his Network Monitoring and Management Platform. But why? Today’s market offers businesses a wide range of networking options. There’s more than a handful of ways to provide your business b…

Hello friends! Just a quick note to let you know there is a new Cisco WAP361 Video available. If you didn’t hear about this new model, here are some quick details about this new 11ac, Dual Radio dynamo. With speeds up to 1.2Gbps, this new model offers a 5-port switch, of which one is a PSE (Po…

I wanted to let you all know more about the new, exciting wireless access points coming out. So I asked the wireless Product Managers, Nasser and Brian to help me with this blog. Let’s do this. Cisco is expanding the wireless portfolio with four new models. Two 500 Series, one 300, and one 100…

Hello all, Welcome to 2016. I wanted to provide a quick update as we start the new year. First off, if you did not know, we have a fantastic Small Business support community. There are sections for Routing, Switching, and of course Wireless. In each section you will find a repository of videos on de…

I had the great privilege of attending and speaking at Fortune Global Forum this week, which gathers business leaders to discuss the most pressing challenges we face and to set the global business agenda. The theme of this year’s conference was “winning in the disruptive century” and focused on how…

We’ve known for years that employees and lines of business are bypassing IT departments to get the cloud services they want. The good news is we can finally quantify how much shadow IT exists in an organization and identify any risks. Large customers actually use 730 individual cloud services on ave…