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August 16, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

How I Landed an Internship at Cisco (Hint: It’s because of @WeAreCisco!)

This post was written by Cisco Sales Intern Mabel Liang. Give anyone in Gen Z some time and a computer, and we can “Google” our way to being experts in anything.  That is exactly what I did prior to my interviews for my current role as a Global Strategy, Planning, and Operations summer intern at Cis…

August 16, 2019

SECURITY

Three Reasons to Upgrade Your Legacy AV/Endpoint Security

What technology do you remember the most from the ‘80s – ‘90s? Portable CD players? Floppy disks? 2G flip phones? None of these, of course, survived the digital evolution. Do you know which technology developed in that era that did survive? Legacy antivirus (AV). That’s right. While many other techn…

August 14, 2019

SECURITY

Breath Deeply, Relax…Now Focus…on Integrating Your Security Architecture

“Relax” and “security” are not often found in the same sentence.  There is not much about the current threat environment that elicits relaxation. But in this era of mindfulness and getting focused, Cisco has done just that.  We have put a single-minded focus on integrating our own security portfolio…

August 13, 2019

PARTNER

How Cisco Capital Adapted to New Markets and Evolving Partner Needs

Cisco Capital operates where traditional lessors have not operated previously, helping to reinvent business processes, operational efficiencies and customer service innovations with our partners. As Cisco’s partners are transitioning to managed services, Cisco Capital has also evolved to meet the fi…

August 13, 2019

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Walk a Mile in Their Rain Boots: The Innovative CX of 5G RuralFirst

  Just about every organization is looking to innovate. Making it happen? Not so easy. Stephen Speirs explains how to bridge the gap from a blank sheet of paper to a great customer experience (CX). An almost 20-year veteran of Cisco, Stephen is a former software engineer who now works in Cisco…

August 12, 2019

PARTNER

Analysts, Industry Peers, and Partners Recognize Value and Momentum

Cisco’s investments, such as Voicea, and innovations around Cognitive Collaboration and Unified Work Experiences are creating new value-added services for partners and beginning to capture attention from industry peers and analysts. Last week Cisco announced its intent to acquire Voicea, a privately…

August 12, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

There’s Only Life and How You Choose to Live it

A lot has happened to me in the last three years—got engaged, got diagnosed with leukemia, got married, built a house, leukemia went into remission, wrote a book about millennials, had our first child—and Cisco has been part of my life through all of it. My first leader at Cisco was a large, easygoi…

August 9, 2019

COLLABORATION

Digital Art Changes How We Ideate: Going Digitally Native with the Webex Board

Going Digitally Native with the Webex Board I recently sat down with representatives from Freeman and ImageThink to talk about their experience with the Webex Board during one of Cisco’s largest user conferences. ImageThink was hired by Freeman to live scribe and graphically record key talks. I’ve s…

August 6, 2019

COLLABORATION

Cisco Recognized as a Worldwide UCaaS Leader by Gartner

Gartner, a leading information technology and advisory company, has recognized Cisco as a leader in its July 2019 report titled, Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Worldwide. Cisco has been recognized as a leader in on-premises UC for more than a decade. Read the latest…