innovation

Cisco NCS 5500 Sees Strong Customer Momentum

It has been two years since we started shipping our cloud-scale networking products.  The Cisco NCS 5500 Series was specifically designed to be a scalable, low-power consumption, and cost-optimized 100G routing platform, with a path to 400G. The NCS 5500 product family is built to meet the massive b…

June 22, 2018

INNOVATION

Innovating Business Sustainability

While I’m out on maternity leave, I’m excited to highlight the varied viewpoints of some of the amazing people that make up CHILL. I’m proud to work with this diverse and talented team. They hail from around the globe, and bring a rich set of experiences, skills, and passions to bear on everything t…

Business Outcomes are Driving the Journey from Finger Defined Networking (FDN) to Software Defined Networking (SDN).

In a series of blogs, I am going to share how Cisco’s Modular Network Automation framework named “Crosswork” will help Service Providers drive strong business outcomes from automating network functions and daily Operations. We will also look at how this framework has the ability to leverage any devi…

Your Network Should Never Be Impacted by an Issue We Know About

Implementing the best of breed of Cisco technology is exciting. At Cisco Live, I’m sure you will feel this excitement and be energized by all the innovation surrounding you. You will make investment decisions, you will implement the technology, integrate it with what is already running, and you will…

May 23, 2018

CLOUD

Getting to the How of Multicloud

Customers are moving beyond thinking about what multicloud is, when it’s coming (it’s already here) or why it’s accelerating. At this point, we are in a new phase, where customers need to know how to navigate the complexity and power their next wave of multicloud initiatives. Since introducing the C…

May 21, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Announcing the 2018 Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge Winners

In this second year of the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, Cisco is proud to continue recognizing young entrepreneurs who are developing innovative, technology-based solutions and services that have the ability to change the world. We’ve been thrilled to see Project Vive, the 2017 Grand Prize…

May 18, 2018

INNOVATION

Blockchain At Cisco Live Orlando

Background The rise of the API economy has transformed how we use technology in the enterprise, but while technology has advanced, methods of doing business over the internet have not kept pace. Businesses today need to increasingly manage data & transactions among a large number of untrusted pa…

Setting a New Standard for Production-Grade Kubernetes

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…

March 28, 2018

INNOVATION

Advancing Planet Scale Blockchain Interoperability

Earlier this week, the Trusted IoT Alliance announced the launch of the first-of-its-kind testnet for blockchain, enabling software engineers worldwide to access a realistic, open-source test environment for the development of blockchain solutions. The multi-protocol, testnet should prove to be a ma…