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Digital transformation is forcing every company to rethink their core business strategies. As a result, IT operations and engineering departments are under more pressure than ever.  They are faced with immense expectations to drive business results, while they keep end-users happy, drive costs down,…

Authored by Jared Headley, Senior Director of Cloud Platforms and Services  Twenty-five years ago, the pain in my wrists was unbearable.  I was spending 10-12 hours a day creating presentations about the OSI model and the power of a multiprotocol network (yeah, I’m old).  After visiting a doctor and…

What exactly is innovation? How would you define it? While business leaders seem to agree that innovation is necessary to survive in today’s competitive marketplace, coming to a consensus on exactly what that means is easier said than done. For some business leaders, innovation means developing enti…

The most difficult thing in any high-tech job is to predict the “tipping point.” Imagine the possibilities if we had the benefit of hindsight. We could all be “IT Historians” with the ability to explain why and how a given technology went through the hype cycle and then eventually took off. But, loo…

Growing up, one of the things that fascinated me about the old Star Trek shows was the crew’s ability to find out virtually anything from the ship’s computer, simply by asking: “Computer, what’s the political situation on Rigel V?” The computer would respond instantly with an appropriate summary and…

While email remains the #1 threat vector, the tools attackers use continues to evolve — we’re no longer dealing with annoying emails sent by amateurs.  Instead, well-funded and persistent organized crime and nation states create vast email schemes. At the heart of these attacks? Massive amount…

According to recent studies like Cisco Global Cloud Index, 94% of all workloads will be processed by Private & Public Cloud Data Centers by 2021, so I guess that adopting the Cloud is not a matter of if, but a matter of when. Once we accept it and understand the benefits, the quest usually begin…

In today’s modern work environment, where people are on and off the network, security is getting increasingly complex. That is why Cisco has been working to build a comprehensive and integrated security portfolio that protects employees whether they are working at headquarters, at a branch office or…

Cisco was founded on the belief that when we connect, we can change the world for the better. More than 30 years later, that belief is stronger than ever. We combine the power of our technology and the passion of our employees to make the world a better place. In 2016, we made a commitment to help p…