Cisco IT
Collaboration Technology Evolves to Support Changing Workplace
Refreshing the 10-year-old Tokyo office At the end of 2017, the renovation of our Tokyo office was announced to Cisco Japan employees. It had been 10 years since the company had moved to the Tokyo Midtown Tower in the busy Roppongi district, home to several multi-national companies. It was time to r…
MCE: Enabling Customer Success in an Increasingly Connected World
Organizations need to be agile, flexible, and visionary. Now with My Cisco Entitlements (MCE), you have a platform that can help you achieve this. I am proud to share Cisco’s official introduction of My Cisco Entitlements (MCE) for our customers and partners. MCE is a comprehensive lifecycle managem…
IoT—Now on the Campus Fabric: Report from the Front Lines
This blog explains why and how we’re extending our campus fabric to the Internet of Things (IoT). Just interested in the engineering? Scroll down to “Start here if you just came for the engineering.” Our network infrastructure team has been building networks with Catalyst switches since before I sta…
The Marriage of Webex Teams and Microsoft Office 365: Our Vision and Strategy
The documents my team produces aren’t solo efforts. When I build a presentation, for example, I’ll leave placeholders for colleagues to fill in, ask people to review, and maybe work with a designer. We have great collaboration tools at Cisco with Webex Teams, and with the new approach to bring Webex…
Webex Teams + Office 365 + Implementation Part 1: Rollout and Change Management
One of the most ambitious steps in our journey to the cloud is rolling out Office 365 to 118,000 employees. Read about our vision and strategy here. This blog explains the rollout and our change management strategy. Part 2 of this blog explains how we managed the implementation using SAFe. R…
Implementing Office 365 at Cisco – Part 2: SAFe Bought Us Speed, Visibility, and Accountability
As we continue on our journey to the cloud, Cisco IT is rolling out Office 365 to 118,000 employees. You can read about our vision and strategy in this blog. Our implementation has two unusual angles that might give you ideas for your own move to Office 365. First, rather than using Office 365 as-i…
Office 365: How We Made It More Secure than On-Premises Email
An internal audit a couple of years ago pointed out that our email contains restricted information. That conclusion shone a spotlight on the security of our planned Office 365. Restricted information includes things like customer data, financial data, even SEC filings before they go public. If this…
Roaming Reporters Set Off to Do the Impossible at CiscoLive! San Diego 2019
Welcome to 2019, and to Cisco Live’s big 3-0! That’s right, it’s the 30th anniversary, and just when you thought this event couldn’t possibly get any bigger… you were wrong! Meet the IT Roaming Reporters, who will be at your side to capture quality content and document this grand experience, as well…
Cheers Cisco Live Melbourne!
Early mornings, late nights, a lot of coffee (or hot chocolate for some) and even more fun – Cisco Live Melbourne was all that and so much more for us IT Roaming Reporters. On our first day itself, the charm of Melbourne had us head over heels in love. The grand venue by the quiet river with t…
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