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This post was written by Gary Coman, who oversees engineering and development for Cisco Networking Academy. It originally appeared on the Huffington Post.  Everywhere in the world, technology is changing the way we live and work. As director of engineering with the Cisco Networking Academy program,…

When you run an Innovation Centre, people often turn to you for clarity on what innovation means—or should mean—to their business. Problem is, innovation can be a vague term.  Worse, innovation is often an overused, overstated, and an under-delivered concept. Do you need to create massive business t…

The world is complex and the pace of change is accelerating. New technologies drive innovation and growth. But what happens with that growth? An increasing amount of IT challenges related to managing those support contracts within complex heterogeneous environments. We hear from customers and the in…

Last week at Cisco live! 2017 EMEA in the historic city of Berlin, we shared the early availability of Contiv 1.0 with almost 14,000 customers and partners. Today, we are excited to share the milestone with our broader community. Additionally, I am thrilled to report that Docker has certified Contiv…

Imagine you’re the IT director of a global bank. You recently implemented a variety of digital solutions: virtualization, IoT, data analytics. You get the picture. Your company is under pressure to compete and deliver experiences to increasingly demanding tech-savvy customers, and IT is on the hook…

In 2016, there seemed to be constant reminders in the news about the latest hack or newest type of attack. As a result, the security market experienced a significant amount of growth. Gartner expects the cybersecurity market to cross $100 billion in 2019 from $76 billion in 2015. To take advantage o…

One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. See how digitizing the network connects multiple experts to the patient securely for efficient diagnoses. For most women, it all starts with a call from their doctor that something was abnormal in their routine mammogram. The…

There is greenfield innovation. And then there is innovation that shakes you out of your own comfort zone. Without comparing the two, our story is steeped in the second. There was an era when Cisco’s enterprise products not only looked very different from each other but also operated on completely d…

On August 2, 2016, Cisco launched the Veteran Talent Incubation Program (VTIP) at its Research Triangle Park (RTP) campus in North Carolina.  Twelve veterans from area military bases are participating in the program, which spawned from a discussion between Erika Plant and TAC Managers (Chris Phillip…