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Cisco Partner Summit is one of my favorite times each year. It’s kind of like the World Cup for our team, where we go all-out to help our partners accelerate their business opportunities. We come together, get creative, make big investments, and strengthen relationships built around our strategic pi…

Next week the Open Networking User Group meets for its fall conference in New York City. I am looking forward to learning how the SDN landscape is evolving and what is top of mind for IT architects and business leaders. One hot topic across the board is digital transformation. It has become clear th…

Even though what an organization produces is vastly different, there’s one thing that is the same for business: the need to lower expenditures. With more and more employees on the move—going in and out of the office and working remote—many business are starting to realize that too much overhead is b…

Have you ever imagined what your car, phone, laptop, or anything you own for that matter, would say if it could speak? I think my phone would tell me to stop dropping it.  My car would beg me to get it washed. What if the routers that have been powering your branch network all these years could talk…

There is greenfield innovation. And then there is innovation that shakes you out of your own comfort zone. Without comparing the two, our story is steeped in the second. There was an era when Cisco’s enterprise products not only looked very different from each other but also operated on completely d…

Today everything is becoming digital, and we don’t mean just connecting to a network. We are talking about machines communicating with other machines, employees retrieving the information they need allowing their work to be done anywhere and everywhere, customers interacting with their favorite bran…

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re discussing Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA). Get the Podcast Listen to this episode Download this episode (right-click on the episode’s download button) View this episode in iTunes Cisco Guest Tim Szi…

As I returned to the Bay Area after Cisco Live U.S. (CLUS), it occurred to me that Cisco and our partners are on a journey of a different kind. Together we are embarking on the road to a digital transformation, and CLUS is but one stop along the way. Cisco will lead some of the time. Other times our…

Activate your Cisco network as a sensor and enforcer for branch-level threat detection and response Return on investment. We often hear this phrase not only in business, but also in life. For example, when choosing home renovation projects, conventional wisdom says that updating a kitchen will yield…