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IBM and Cisco Expand their Global Strategic Partnership with a Hybrid Cloud Announcement
Back in 2014, Cisco and IBM made the strategic decision to build an even stronger partnership focused on aligned offerings that today include data center, cloud, security, IOT and services. Our objective has always been to help our mutual customers leverage the power of two clear market leaders with…
OpenRoaming: A Seamless Access Solution that Benefits Customers and Carriers
A mobile carrier’s worst nightmare is a customer who doesn’t have wireless service and blames their operator. Maybe they are traveling and don’t have an international cellular plan. Or they are at a stadium for a game, but no traffic is going through because the cellular towers are overloaded. 5G is…
Cisco at ISTE19: Empowering the Next Generation of Problem Solvers
The 2019 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE19) event convenes this week to bring together a community of educators looking to learn about new technologies that can help solve challenges in the classroom. Having been an educator in a previous life, I am always excited to meet wit…
World Refugee Day: Taking Steps for the Globally Displaced
What if San Francisco was suddenly empty? Or New York City? Or both? Imagine over 9 million people fleeing their homes, families and friends, schools, and jobs—leaving two of the United States’ most populous cities nearly empty. Our world would look different—we would notice and want to know what’s…
Cisco named a “Champion” in Canalys Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix 2019
Known as a leader in cybersecurity and technology insights for the channel, Canalys released their Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix for 2019. For this matrix, 15 cybersecurity companies were graded on momentum and channel performance over the past 12 months. Unique feedback from channel partners and …
Pathways to Better Mental Health in the Workplace
It’s been over a month since Mental Health Week, and I want to recognize and reflect upon the important conversations that have since taken place to promote mental health awareness, and the ongoing actions taken to help reduce the stigma surrounding this issue. Recently, during Cisco Live in San Die…
Cisco and IBM Cloud Announce Hybrid Cloud Partnership
In the current day journey towards application modernization, enterprises have a growing need to not only bring together the agility of newer microservice architectures and application development platforms like Kubernetes but also align those capabilities with their existing middleware, databases,…
How Cisco Employees Have Given Back to Me
Cisco employees share many similar qualities, but one that we all have is a road that led us to working for this wonderful company. Some have known and aspired to work for Cisco their entire life, while others (like myself) discovered Cisco during graduate school, and still there are some who never…
Healthcare IT: When TV drama meets real-life medical device security
“‘Murder by pacemaker’” isn’t a real thing, is it?” my friend asked. She’d been binging on Netflix and caught a TV drama in which the victim’s pacemaker was hacked. From a remote location, the hacker—a murderer for hire—was able to access the device, accelerate the victim’s heart rate, and cause car…
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