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There is nothing small about small businesses. Growing. Family owned. Entrepreneurs. They take risks and lead with passion. They create jobs and community. They make big bets and care about their customers. They are just like us, working hard every day to make an impact in the world. Small business…

Workplace transformation doesn’t come from technology alone. It comes from people, which is why we are taking a human-centered approach to workplace transformation. This week we are publicly launching solutions that address workstyles, workspaces, and workflows. Our innovations across the portfolio…

Catalyst Quality for Small Deployments When your business is growing, you need your network to enable that growth, not stand in the way of it. So, it’s important to have a network that you know you can rely on. This is why we designed the Cisco Catalyst 1000 Series switches – providing flexib…

Making the new way of working more human When we delight employees, we increase engagement and productivity which has a direct effect on our customers.  According to MIT, when we invest in the employee experience, we see a 25% increase in profits and 2 times the customer satisfaction. But employees…

Welcome to The Future of Firewalling, Part 1… For over two decades, the firewall has been the de-facto tool that facilitated secure connectivity between different networks. Firewalls were traditionally designed around the idea that internal traffic and users were inherently trustworthy and external…

Partners and Portfolio Together Hello from Cisco Partner Summit 2019 in Las Vegas! While normally “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”, today we are excited to share with everyone our Partner Summit 2019 CX announcements. I have the privilege to lead our CX Portfolio and CX Partner model, and tod…

I am proud to announce that today we are inviting Cisco partners to join us in supporting entrepreneurs who are using technology to address some of our world’s problems. Back in 2016, we launched the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, which recognizes post-secondary students and recent graduates…

The theme of Cisco’s annual Partner Summit conference this year is “Own Your Edge.” I am 100% on board with this idea—that each partner brings their own unique abilities, and value to the market, which results in a thriving ecosystem that delivers diverse solutions for customers. We can’t decide you…

At a time when cybercrime costs three times more than natural disasters globally1, the demands on security are constantly growing. Whether you’re asked to protect a workforce that roams anywhere, a workplace that is digitized, or workloads that run wherever, your disparate security solutions are cre…