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Imagine receiving a phone call, where on the other line, you heard a friend of yours pay you the kindest, most genuine acknowledgement of the difference you had made in their lives. A few years ago, on September 21st, I received just such a call from a friend of mine.  He ended it by wishing me a Ha…

Last week’s announcements of the all-new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro remind us that the iPhone is a great business partner. The blend of  advanced capabilities in iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, and features built through the strategic partnership between Apple and Cisco, make the new models excellent…

Data, interconnectivity and immersive technologies are transforming the world and impacting every area of our lives. Developments like the tactile internet and other greater innovations will benefit both consumer and business. Hence, new networking capabilities will be required to make the most of t…

IT today is overworked, understaffed, and managing an increasingly complex network. Use cases for IoT are expanding. The proliferation of devices isn’t slowing down. The workforce is becoming more mobile. And applications and workloads are moving to the cloud and multicloud at a rapid pace. Without…

When I was six years old, I received my first world map on which I used to trace the routes of our frequent family visits to India.  I’d move my finger from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (where my family lived) up to London, then over to Abu Dhabi on connecting flights, and finally to Mumbai where we woul…

It can happen to the best of us. You can have robust security software deployed in your environment, and yet a threat slips through. Often it happens at a weak point that you hadn’t considered critical or just overlooked entirely. It can be a humbling experience and something that many security prof…

Retail banks are taking artificial intelligence and machine-learning technologies and running with them. Armed with these tools, they’re adding speed and ease to banking and completely transforming the customer experience. Algorithms are churning out faster, more accurate credit decisions, speeding…

Even in human relationships, hard data is an eye-opener. When I joined Cisco’s Enterprise Networking Group in 2016 and took on oversight of its Diversity & Inclusion efforts, one data point was immediately concerning: we had gender imbalance, especially in the leadership ranks. Statistically, mo…

Enterprise IT infrastructure is becoming more complex as companies are developing and monitoring public, private, and hybrid cloud environments along with microservices and third-party integrations — all this results in fragmented data and customer experiences. We conducted a survey to dig deeper in…