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When I first joined the Cisco IT team in 2018 after graduating from university, I was eager to see how a large, global company like Cisco can efficiently develop and deliver solutions to its customers. I quickly discovered that while Cisco is big and complex, it operates very much like an agile star…

This nugget caught my eye in Cisco’s 2020 Global Networking Trends Report, fresh off the presses in October 2019: “While only 4% of IT leaders and network strategists classify their network as an intent-based network today, 35% plan for their network to be intent-based within two years.” Those 35% a…

Webex Teams is the hub for collaboration at Cisco. For every project or program, we set up a Webex space where we can meet, chat, and share content—from any device. Keeping connected helps us be productive when email is just not enough. On May 1, 2019, the user experience for collaborating on conten…

Our existing circuits comfortably handle terabytes of new Office 365 traffic with Cisco SD-WAN technology Before migrating to Office 365 in early 2019 we needed to make sure we had enough WAN capacity. At the outset we’d be transferring 500 TB of email—the equivalent of 19 years of streaming HD vide…

Collaboration used to be something like sharing a meal. We met in a designated space, like a conference room or someone’s office. Everyone came together at the same time. And if the meeting was in the middle of the night in our time zone, we had to make do the next morning with leftovers (notes or a…

Last evening, I had a lively discussion with my friend Paul on the state of agility in his organization, a midsize company of about 6000 employees. He mentioned that agile is the flavor of the year in his organization and that their executive Samuel had set a goal “We shall be agile by the end of th…

Remember the law of conservation of energy which is one of the basic laws of physics and therefore governs the microscopic motion of individual atoms in a chemical reaction? This law states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one f…

Though it is sad that Cisco Live San Diego 2019 is over, the 30th anniversary of this event did not disappoint! Arriving in the picturesque city of San Diego, the IT Roaming Reporters sprang into action to capture footage of our new surroundings. The people— effervescent, the city— charged up. There…

Today I’m publishing this post from Heathrow Airport in London. That’s not unusual because I work away from the office probably 50% of the time, either at home, my local café, or hotels and airports. I’ll collaborate with people across different time zones and luckily for me, working at Cisco…