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In a time where networks are growing exponentially thanks to scores of new wireless devices connecting every day, it can feel as if keeping your network up and running is like shoveling sand against the tide with a tea spoon. You can put down that tea spoon, because Cisco has given you a bulldozer.…

“Evolution requires us to continually refresh our competitive advantage. Sometimes in major cataclysms. Sometimes in dribs and drabs. Innovate forever, in other words, is neither a slogan nor an aspiration. It is a requirement.” – Geoffrey A. Moore, author of Dealing with Darwin: How Great Com…

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…

HIMSS18 may be over, but the takeaways from the exhibit floor and sessions have stuck with us. Themes around improving the patient experience, streamlining clinical workflows, and strengthening patient data security were hot topics. And of course, none of this cutting-edge care is possible without t…

We love our mobile devices, don’t we? And the numbers prove it. The Cisco Visual Networking Index reports that there are 17 billion devices connected to worldwide networks today and will increase to 27 billion by 2021. As a result, data flowing from wireless, mobile, and IoT devices will account for…

Manufacturers, utilities, and oil & gas companies are using data and applications to improve business operations through smart manufacturing initiatives like Industrie 4.0.  To accomplish these benefits these companies recognize the need to converge their enterprise network and their factory net…

Opening the Gates to Intent-based Networking This is a guest post authored by Muninder Sambi, Senior Director of Product Management, Enterprise Networking Business. As I think about the transformation we, at Cisco, are trying to drive in the networking industry with intent-based Networking, I can’t…

I am a big fan of Simon Sinek, world renown leadership coach and author of award-winning books like “Start with Why”. One of his mantras is ‘If you want to lead, focus on your own areas of leadership!’ Building on this concept, how can you find adjacent opportunities building…

Rethinking Secure Technical Innovation to Enable Successful Business Outcomes Over the past 25 years I have been employed in the technology field, my non-technical friends often ask me, “How do you keep up with technology as things change so quickly?”  I argue that change isn’t as dramatic as they m…