#innovation

There’s no silver bullet for online security, especially when it comes to user authentication. And enterprises aren’t alone in the struggle to keep up with the needs and demands of authentication. At the center of all of this lies user behavior and the challenge it presents to security. Startups suc…

Your technology investments play a critical role in the success of your business. They drive efficiencies. Accelerate the introduction of new products and services. Help your business gain a competitive edge and increase profitability. It’s no surprise that with the number of technologies and soluti…

She dribbles down the court on a fast break, fakes to the left, she shoots – Swish! The app records the score! Think technology and basketball don’t go hand in hand? Think again. Austin-area high school girls scored big at Cisco’s Girls Power Tech event where Bluetooth-enabled basketball was just on…

In today’s rapidly changing digital economy, enterprises can no longer afford to be innovation tourists. Innovation fairs, mission statements, internal competitions—they’re all great but not enough anymore. Innovation can’t be a one-time event. Innovation must now be an enduring mindset that’s embed…

We launched the Open vRAN Ecosystem in February of this year with a vision to accelerate the viability and adoption of open virtualized RAN (vRAN) solutions and ensure their extension into a broader network architecture. We’ve had a busy six months architecting and building solutions, executing oper…

In the distant past, the professionals we refer to today as data scientists were primordial creatures who pieced together business intelligence from green and white striped dot-matrix outputs, deep in the basements of office buildings, to solve relatively esoteric actuarial problems. Fast forward –…

Looking back on the past two decades, I can clearly divide my professional experience into two phases: 10 years pre-Cisco and, the decade I’m currently in, all things Cisco. Before Cisco, I worked at five different companies, with my longest stretch being three years spent at Oracle. My experiences…

When you think of the word innovation, what comes to mind? Better, faster, technology, robots… And what about entrepreneurship? Risk, bold, opportunity, unicorns… While all these ring true, we often forget the most important factor of success for each: the problem solving itself. To create a c…

As 20 billion connected devices come online in the next few years1, The internet of things is poised to play an increasingly important role in our economy. IDC expects IOT based spending to top $1 trillion by 20202 representing a large swath of industries including agriculture, transportation, logis…