network infrastructure
AI and the 4 Keys to its Success: Diving Deeper
Like the internet, artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more powerful as the number of people using the tools grows. The utility of AI in this context depends on the user themselves. How? By providing their “voice samples” through applications like Siri, Alexa, Cortana and Google Assistant back to t…
Service Providers, Get Ready for Cisco Live 2020!
In just under 7 short weeks, the IT world will come together in Barcelona for one of the best weeks of the year at Cisco Live, 2020 in January. Still undecided whether or not to attend? Read on to discover why this event is an experience not to be missed by any Service Provider. Cisco Live is a huge…
How to Find Relief for Your Network Infrastructure in the Age of Apps
If you’re like most IT people, never does a day go by that you’re not working on multiple tasks at once: ensuring on prem data centers and public cloud networks are running smoothly; monitoring the consistency of network security policies; and making sure all of it meets compliance demands. And that…
How Verizon Earned Top Partner Honors in 2018
A couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas, I felt like a member of a film crew watching my movie win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Verizon, the Cisco partner I’ve worked with for years, was named 2018 Global Service Provider of the Year. They then won a second honor: Enterprise Partner of the Year fo…
Being a Woman in Tech and Cisco SE.
Recently I attended a training for my career development. I’m a VCSE specialist in MANO for Service Provider at Cisco, and this was an opportunity to get some pre-sales training with a Service Provider focus. I got there early, and had a few moments to get settled and look around. 90% of my fellow t…
Make a Security Resolution with a Trustworthy Network Infrastructure
In 2017, businesses lost hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue as a result of cyber attacks. You saw cyber threats all over the news with data breaches permeating the economy. The WannaCry ransomware attack affected hundreds of thousands of computers globally. The Equifax breach, considered one…
Your technology guide for remote and virtual care: Get the scoop from HIMSS
Does your healthcare organization offer remote or virtual care—such as telemedicine—as part of your service offerings? Are you thinking about it? You should be. Gone are the days when care delivery was confined to the four walls of a hospital. Patients today want the convenience of anytime, anywhere…
Cisco’s IWAN (Intelligent WAN) for Your SD-WAN
Peter J. Welcher is a Cisco Champion, an elite group of technical experts who are passionate about IT and enjoy sharing their knowledge, expertise, and thoughts across the social web and with Cisco. The program has been running for over four years and has earned two industry awards as an industry be…
Miercom Report: Secured Network Infrastructure
Everyday networks are being hammered with multiple types of threats, coming from a variety of sources. To make matters worse, these threats often use sophisticated techniques to be undetected by traditional security methods. Proliferation of IoT devices increase these risks as most IoT devices often…