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A New Type of WAN that Grows with Your Business
Wide Area Networking has seen disruption like never before in the past 5 years. The use of technology to transform how businesses interact with their customers and partners combined with the changing behavior of how employees connect and use the network is challenging existing WAN architectures. For…
Solar Secures Infrastructure with Cisco DNA
Improve infrastructure security? Or improve infrastructure management? Why not both? These were the questions on the minds of the team at Solar, a leading European sourcing and services company with over 170 locations around the world. After the May 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack, Solar decided the…
NEW #CiscoChat Podcast: Cisco ONE for Switching, Subscription Option, and a Relaxed YOU!
Welcome to the newest installment of the #CiscoChat podcast. In this episode, you’ll get to meet the latest, greatest addition to the Cisco ONE Software family: the Cisco ONE Subscription for Switching Software. Why the subscription, and why now? In this new, complex era of networking, driven by adv…
Introducing New Software Subscription for Access Wireless
Today every business model transformation, every market shift is fueled by software. Software has become the key to innovation. Let’s take an example of your user mobility requirements. Today it serves a purpose beyond just simple connectivity. Customers expect a flawless experience irrespective of…
Customers Seek Threat Protection Across WAN, Access and Data Center
Many of you are familiar with the WannaCry ransomware attack that struck businesses in over 150 countries worldwide in May 2017. Targets of the attack included huge corporations and organizations in the UK and U.S. in sectors as diverse as healthcare, telecommunications, logistics, manufacturing an…
Cisco Enterprise Agreement: Key to Cisco’s Evolving Software Business Strategy
With today’s announcement of the Cisco Enterprise Agreement (EA) we’re changing the way our customers purchase, deploy and adopt Cisco technology. This is another big step forward as we continue to evolve our software business strategy to make it simpler, easier and more rewarding for customers take…
3 Insights on Digital Business Transformation and Software Support
I recently had the pleasure of joining a twitter #CiscoChat co-hosted by @CiscoServices and Zeus Kerravala @zkerravala of ZK Research. We started the chat to debate the pros and cons of software support, but as we dove into the costs of downtime, it became evident there was no debate. Software suppo…
Refine Your Focus with Distribution
I can’t believe it’s been nearly two weeks since an energizing Partner Summit in San Francisco! As I take a step back and reflect, one word continues to pop into my head – focus. More than ever before, our teams are more focused, aligned and ready to help our partners and customers go Fu…
The 3 S’s of Success: Security. Software. Simplicity.
Our most profitable partners sell security. And the underpinning of security solutions is software. Yet profit isn’t the only reason you should amp up your security practice. With cyberattacks increasing in both sophistication and volume, cybersecurity is on the top of everyone’s mind. Our security…
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