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On October 15, 2019, Cisco launched its fourth annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, a worldwide search for the next technology startup greatly impacting people, society or the planet. With 14 prizes totaling $350,000 USD, the competition is open to current university students and recent alu…

I still haven’t decided whether I’ll be braving the crowds and shopping in the store on Black Friday, or if I’m going to wait until Cyber Monday to buy my holiday gifts. Regardless of my choice, there are still going to be a lot of people buying things in the coming week—over 165 m…

A little more than a few months ago I had the pleasure of announcing Cisco’s foray into the future with the launch of our new Catalyst 9100 access points. As American film director Godfrey Reggio once said, “It’s not that we use technology, we live technology.” This quote can be applied to Cisco as…

UNESCO reports that as many as one fifth of school-age children worldwide are not in school. Close to 617 million children who are attending school are not meeting the minimum proficiency guidelines in reading and mathematics. This must change! Gooru has been a Cisco Foundation grantee since 2011,…

This post is the second in a three-part series. Read the first post about the benefits of SD-WAN here. Today, many businesses are shifting from a centralized infrastructure to decentralized applications that run in many clouds. The workload is also shifting from the corporate data center to the edge…

As we saw in my last blog, the network plays a key role in defending critical infrastructure and IoT. The devices that we are connecting drive our business, enabling us to make smarter decisions and gain greater efficiency through digitization. But how do we ensure those connected devices are acting…

Why do some transformations succeed and other fail? I read some research recently from PMI, Gartner and other sources saying that 71% of IT projects are failures — 19% are utter failures. Another survey found that 51% of digital transformation projects had stalled or been abandoned altogether. Clear…

Over the last year, Cisco has continued on our intent-based networking journey, making sure that we addressed our customers’ business outcomes and use cases for the entire wired and wireless access networking. No matter the new products, from our switches to access points, to controllers to software…

When Heather Dickey began unpacking from her second move to Herndon, Virginia, one thought that didn’t enter her mind was, “I need to get a job.”  That is because Heather was able to keep her job despite the move, but most military spouses are not so fortunate. Moving between duty stations wreaks ha…