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August 10, 2018

INSIDE CISCO IT

Network of the Future, Today. How We’re Growing WAN Capacity While Optimizing Costs

If you haven’t seen my colleague Ben Irving’s Network of the Future blog, I recommend you check it out. In this blog I’ll share what we’ve accomplished so far in terms of the new WAN architecture Ben describes here. Why increase WAN capacity? Two reasons. First, we need more capacity to keep deliver…

June 14, 2018

INSIDE CISCO IT

How Cisco DNA Center Is Improving our IT Operations

What if we could have a system to view and manage everything in the network? Today, we’re answering that question within Cisco IT as we transition our corporate network to Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) and making a parallel transition to Cisco DNA Center to complement our network manageme…

June 6, 2018

INSIDE CISCO IT

Wireless Upgrades and End User Devices

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…

May 24, 2018

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Cutting Power in 3… 2… 1…

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…

May 21, 2018

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Future IT through Internships

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…

January 18, 2017

INSIDE CISCO IT

My PTO Tool: A Continuous Journey to Improve Simplicity and Efficiency

The My Paid Time Off (My PTO) application helps Cisco employees to refresh and recharge away from the office. It connects them to the People Deal. It empowers them to simplify their work experience in order to get out and have a worldly experience. In 2016, the My PTO tool took a journey like the Ci…

August 27, 2014

INSIDE CISCO IT

How Cisco is Using Platform as a Service (PaaS) delivery and ACI

The role of IT in the enterprise is transforming. Cisco is creating the next-generation data center and cloud deployments with Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) to simplify and optimize the entire application deployment lifecycle. //…