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Cisco’s recently released their 2020 CISO Benchmark Report that makes several key recommendations for security professionals to achieve a zero trust vision. The following are a couple of recommendations that are relevant to the discussion in this blog regarding device trust: More than half (52%) of…

Cisco Smart Spaces Summit for Workplace Transformation It is said that it takes a village to solve a problem, well that depends on the size of the problem. During the recent Smart Spaces Summit & Hackathon, several villages came together and formed a nation to solve some of the most difficult ch…

Last week’s announcements of the all-new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro remind us that the iPhone is a great business partner. The blend of  advanced capabilities in iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, and features built through the strategic partnership between Apple and Cisco, make the new models excellent…

IT Admins to the Rescue The IT Administrator’s job can be quite daunting. Ensuring quality of service for collaboration tools is probably the toughest part of the job. Making sure that all employees, from the most demanding senior executive to the multi-tasking millennial, are happy with the quality…

For Network Admins, it’s sort of like waiting for your favorite blockbuster to hit the local cinema. You’ve read a few spoilers, you’ve watched all of the previews, now you’re pumped for the movie. Only the movie hasn’t been released. As Tom Petty once sang, “The waiting is the hardest part.” At Cis…

Business mobile devices can be a lifeline for increasing your employee productivity – but how do you realize value when the costs of managing enterprise mobility are so high? This was the focus of a new study, released today by Cisco, in which Forrester was commissioned to survey over 300 decision m…

Over the past few weeks I have had the good fortune to spend a lot of time with teachers and administrators of schools and school boards around the province (including my recent keynote to OPSOA). I’ve been passionate about the critical role educators play in helping us shape our innovation ec…

Any university will tell you that its primary mission is to create opportunities for its students to achieve success. But student success looks quite different today than it has in the past – even as recently as a few years ago. For starters, artificial intelligence and automation are already beginn…

Since helping launch the data virtualization market in 2006, I have interacted with thousands of organizations. A common question across these conversations is “How do we know if we are ready for data virtualization?” What these organizations are really asking is: “When do we know if our existing da…