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Growing-up, I always felt akin to Luke Skywalker, as I anxiously awaited my chance to leave the farm and make a difference in the galaxy. I daydreamed of blasting off from home with a trusty side-kick (or two) and having a lifetime of adventures. With such a vivid imagination, and my need for advent…

Now that you are familiar with how Developers work in their local environments (see previous blog), it is time to explore their peer Operations teams. Once developers feel comfortable with code running in their laptops, Ops needs to start thinking about how it will go into production. That productio…

Stop where you are and consider this: there’s a colossal chance you’re reading this text on your mobile phone. Are you? Maybe not, but probably so. However, even if you’re not reading this text on your phone, statistics suggest you’ve read an article or a blog or some other web-based text on your mo…

We know that the canvas you work in includes many different collaboration tools, productivity tools, and devices. When all those elements work together, you can work more efficiently. That’s why our approach is an open collaboration canvas: We are making sure the Webex portfolio works with the third…

There is no question that the threat of cybersecurity breaches is business impacting in our ever-increasing connected world. There are two data points that I like to use on this matter to illustrate the impact: According to a CIO Insight survey, 71% of executives surveyed said that concerns over cy…

Some of you may be surprised to learn about Cisco’s involvement in the open source community. In fact, we’ve been working with open source technologies for close to 20 years. We are heavily invested. Our releases of Cisco CloudCenter 4.9 and AppDynamics for Kubernetes today are not only milestones i…

The Cisco team is focused on continuing to deliver multicloud solutions to customers, which is why we are proud to announce the release of CloudCenter 4.9. This release comes with several key updates including, but not limited to, native support for Kubernetes and Azure Stack, as well as new feature…

What’s the next step after graduation? For most of us, it’s time to find a job!  Imagine my surprise (and excitement) when I saw a company like Cisco was hiring fresh graduates! I knew immediately a great opportunity had come my way. Without wasting any time, I got to work preparing my resume and dr…

Wow. Where to begin? The DevNet Create Conference (second annual) took place April 10-11, and there was so much for attendees to do, learn, and experience. If you read my blog from last month, you know that DevNet Create is a two day conference focused on topics and technologies of interest to appli…