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In collaboration with Arti Patel Making dinner is relatively easy if you already have first-rate ingredients and supplies at hand — harder if you need to schlep to multiple stores to gather the ingredients and then hunt for an AWOL garlic press. Replace “making dinner” with “collaborating” and you h…

When I was a kid, about two weeks before each school year started, my parents would take me shopping for clothes and school supplies. As a pre-teen I wasn’t exactly enthused about these trips, but one shop – a shoe store – always had my undivided attention at checkout time. The store’s cash register…

Within Cisco, we naturally make extensive use of Cisco Webex for collaboration and we find all sorts of ways to engage our users and drive adoption. It’s really a planes, trains, and automobiles strategy. With employees in nearly 100 countries, using Webex is a great way to connect and communicate w…

Choosing which application enhancements will best serve the most users can be a difficult decision for any development team, and it certainly is for mine. It can also be difficult for teams to identify the right sources of issues in application performance. Now, many of those decisions are easier fo…

It’s 25 years ago and I’m in the midst of my original career, as a newspaper reporter. I live and work in northern Los Angeles County, and the region has recently been rocked by the Northridge Earthquake. Caught in the widespread damage are my apartment and the City Hall building containing my offic…

Content also contributed by: Marcelo Camandona and Darron Howard The office comms room (network distribution or server rooms) can often become an “out of sight, out of mind” storage closet for old equipment, file boxes, even bicycles and other personal items. With so many vendors and employees worki…

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…

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…