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At Cisco, we have over 73,000 employees, spread across 490 offices in over 190 countries. We work in local, regional, and global teams. For our teams to be successful, it is critical that we connect with one another. To connect, we must create an environment where trusted relationships can be grown…

What does the future hold for you and Cisco? What comes to mind when you hear the word “intuitive”? We will ask these and many other intriguing questions at Cisco Live Orlando 2018. Before we tackle these hard-hitting questions, allow us to introduce ourselves. We are the IT Roaming Reporters (ITRR…

I’m with the Desktop Platforms team. We manage the fleet of Windows devices, Macs and Linux machines provided and supported by IT at Cisco. Our team has tried a number of approaches to driver updates on the Windows side over the years and have at times struggled with the balance of ‘leave it alone i…

Say you’re working for a large company and there’s a proposal to shut down dozens of buildings for several days near the end of the calendar year.  A lot of people – employees and customers both – are already taking time off for holidays, so it’s a relatively painless way to save energy, lower opera…

The landscape of business and technology is constantly changing, looking towards the future.  Never before has the future been more dependent on people.  Those individuals entering the workforce now will face more change than ever.  If you are just starting your career, you will probably see more tr…

Malware has evolved dramatically in the past 20 years – from malicious script kiddies breaking things just for fun, to corporate and nation-state espionage, to a multimillion dollar industry. No company, no home, nowhere with advanced electronics is safe. Whether you know it or not, you depend…

G’day everybody! I hope you are all as excited to be at Cisco Live Melbourne 2018 as we are to meet you. Who are we, you ask? We are Cisco IT professionals set out to interact and interview the attending delegates of the IT Management Program. We’ll roam the convention floor speaking wit…

In his blog Future IT: The Who, How, What, and Why, our CIO, Guillermo Diaz, describes how our IT organization can keep operations running smoothly while also becoming a machine of continuous innovation. The short story: the best people and teams will work in dynamic and agile ways to drive continuo…

We know the technology we develop and manage in IT is an ever more vital element of business success. Yet even as our business counterparts acknowledge their reliance on technology, IT often feels marginalized in business strategy and decision-making discussions. The solution for this dilemma is to…