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October 22, 2018

PARTNER

Partner Launch: New innovations for the future of work

We are obsessed with delivering technology that puts collaboration first and providing our partners more opportunity with competitive solutions. Last month we launched Advanced Meetings. We showed partners and customers we’re working hard to improve our industry-leading meetings experience. Simplifi…

October 22, 2018

COLLABORATION

Advantages of the New Cisco Webex for Google Calendar Integration

Has this happened to you? You love tool A and you love tool B. You go to tool A’s marketplace and find out you can install an integration to make it work better with tool B. But there are a few catches. The integration app requires a download or plug-in, requiring you to keep up with current version…

October 17, 2018

INNOVATION

Smart Business, Good Deeds, and Innovation: The Next Frontier in Social Impact

Many of the decisions we make every day in business can have a positive impact on our community. The practices we use to innovate—design thinking, experience research, and new project management techniques—are also the tools we use to make a difference in the world. And doing good in the world can c…

October 17, 2018

DATA CENTER

Cisco Delivers Flexible Deployment Options for Large-Scale Cloud Providers

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches are built from the ground up with scalability and open API’s  to meet the needs of our customers. Some of our webscale customers running large scalable data centers prefer to choose specific hardware and software to meet their unique requirements. Last year, we annou…

October 16, 2018

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Machine learning’s importance to services

Machine learning (ML) has been one of the hottest buzzwords in technology over the past few years. It seems every segment of the high-tech industry has been impacted by ML. This technology has changed the way we service customers, allowed us to interact with in-room meeting devices, made our busines…

October 15, 2018

SECURITY

Employees: Your Greatest Security Asset

As a CISO, I’m focused on the security of Cisco’s entire enterprise, not just our IT systems and infrastructure or the data our customers entrust in us. Because Cisco is a leading security technology provider, my team and I are fortunate to have the best tools to help prevent, detect and remediate c…

October 12, 2018

CLOUD

NewOps. Kubernetes. Multicloud.

If you are an IT Ops professional responsible for running cloud-native applications built with containerized application services, then you should consider boosting your skills to be ready for changes likely coming your way. Cloud-native refers to an application architecture, not a workload deployme…

October 12, 2018

HIGH TECH POLICY

A Modern Approach to Cybersecurity & Privacy in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement

As was noted in a companion blog by my colleague Jen Sanford, the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada-Agreement (USMCA) covers a wide range of trade issues between these nations.  We are particularly excited for the provisions around cybersecurity which address what our customers and the industry have been sayin…

October 9, 2018

COLLABORATION

What Makes Meetings #Webexceptional?

I joined Cisco seven weeks ago to lead marketing for the Collaboration business. I am privileged and honored to be the leader of one of the world’s loved brands in collaboration – Webex. Throughout my career, I’ve used many video and web conferencing solutions. While there are a variety of collabora…