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Digitization is opening up new opportunities for business expansion. Cloud and IP are enabling service providers to deliver new services and impactful experiences with greater agility, less cost and flexibility. Interconnected devices are offering exciting new means to respond rapidly and deliver a…

By Aunindo Ghosh Fifty countries, 4.5 billion people, and a multitude of cultures and economies. Asia Pacific is indeed as varied as it is vast. And that variation includes the way people watch TV. But if there is one thread that binds everyone in this region, it has to be the explosive growth of Mo…

Cloud Security is currently top of mind for IT. In this blog post, I will provide a 10 point checklist to help you secure your OpenStack Neutron networking service. Ensure that you use “Defense in depth” as the primary security strategy and deploy a series of defensive mechanisms, as no single metho…

Beginning last week, many organizations around the globe found themselves responding to infected computers in their environments that were hit with new malicious ransomware called “WannaCry.” Most other organizations reacted quickly to protect their network-critical files from being taken hostage by…

When news broke last week of cyber attacks threatening systems in nearly 150 countries, the first thing I did was rush to make sure my home PC was protected. (It was.) It’s likely that individuals and organizations—including K-12 schools, colleges and universities—the world over had the same reactio…

Last week’s stunning ransomware attack that crippled Britain’s National Health System and hit other organizations in several countries was certainly a dramatic, headline-grabbing event. And it might not be over: According to the New York Times, the dawning of Monday in Asia brought reports of new ca…

The digital age has ushered in a new and exciting time for the media industry. It’s great for consumers who now have their pick of affordable, high-quality content from any device, anywhere, at any time. It’s great for media organizations that have embraced digitization and can respond rapidly to gi…

For media organizations, your time is now! The shift from SDI to IP is enabling you to be more agile, operate at a lower cost, and gain the flexibility to deliver premium 4K/UHD content to subscribers on virtually any device at anytime, anywhere. From the time content is acquired, put through produc…

Scale, speed, new consumer experiences — these goals all come to mind as drivers of the massive transformation happening in media & entertainment. When it comes to the underlying IP and cloud technology needed to bring this transformation to life, Cisco has a unique ability to deliver comp…