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The “Power of 3” is continuing to gain momentum just a few months after I shared it at Partner Summit in Dallas. The reality of the Power of 3 is that when Cisco partners, Americas Partner Organization (APO), and Cisco’s sales teams work together – we can and will deliver success for our customers.…

The more decisions you make throughout the day, the harder each one becomes for your brain. According to The Week*, as a person makes decisions throughout the day, the brain depletes its limited amount of mental stamina, and starts employing one of two shortcuts: Make a rash decision or avoid the ac…

Imagine this: It’s 1995 and you want to drive someplace you’ve never been. You pull out your trusty map, orient yourself, and follow the lines to your destination. You pay very close attention to mileage, signs, and exits as you progress because if you get off track, you’ll have to pull over to regr…

I’ve been working in the technology industry for three decades, and there’s never been a more complex—or exciting—time to be in IT. The complexity is self-evident: A large global enterprise might have hundreds of thousands of devices from different vendors, running a variety of proprietary and semi-…

There is no question that it’s a hard-knock life to be an IT professional in the age of Digital Transformation, which promises to upend just about every aspect of what it means to be an IT expert. The result of this is that IT pros can expect to deal with more and more complexities in their jobs whi…

Business agility, lower cost of ownership, and the flexibility to scale up or down quickly. The cloud world is rich with benefits, and growing. According to IDC’s Worldwide IT Industry 2018 Predictions, spending on cloud services and cloud-enabling hardware, software and services will more than doub…

As they say in Barcelona, next week will be “la leche.” A very good week indeed. Cisco Live Barcelona kicks off on Monday, and I’ll be there taking it all in! The Spanish metropolis has long had a reputation for being at the forefront of urban technological innovation. They have a municipal network…

More and more Service Providers today are moving away from aging TDM infrastructures and updating their networks to all IP. In so doing they are benefiting from reduced costs, increased revenues, and enhanced services. Older TDM networks are burdened with limited service capabilities, high maintenan…

In the “old days,” security and data protection responsibilities generally rested solely within organizations’ IT teams. Today, nearly 17,000 devices are added to the Internet every minute, expanding the number of targets attackers can exploit to steal valuable data. Now, in addition to IT teams, bu…