Top 2019 Posts

Connected Bees Coming to Cisco’s Research Triangle Park Campus

Research Triangle Park (RTP) in North Carolina is Cisco’s second largest campus in the U.S. after our headquarters in San Jose, California. RTP is a growing campus in a regional innovation hub, surrounded by leading research universities and clean technology ventures. This makes RTP an excellent pla…

November 14, 2019

NETWORKING

Cisco ranks #1 in Gartner SD-WAN Equipment Market Share Report

Cisco was listed with the largest revenue in the recently released worldwide market share for SD-WAN equipment. Cisco’s market share was 16.2% in Q2 2019, increasing from 14.6% in Q1 2019. The details are covered in the September 2019 report titled “Market Share: Enterprise Network Equipment by Mark…

November 4, 2019

COLLABORATION

Cisco and Microsoft Have Come Together to Deliver a Better User Experience

Industry Giants Join Together to Drive Open and Seamless Collaboration Collaboration: The act of working with someone to produce or create something. It’s a word we use all the time. But, have you thought about what it really means? “The act of working with someone to produce or create something.” T…

September 16, 2019

NETWORKING

iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro: A Win for Users and Admins

Last week’s announcements of the all-new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro remind us that the iPhone is a great business partner. The blend of  advanced capabilities in iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, and features built through the strategic partnership between Apple and Cisco, make the new models excellent…

September 6, 2019

NETWORKING

Fostering Diversity in Enterprise Networking Engineering

Even in human relationships, hard data is an eye-opener. When I joined Cisco’s Enterprise Networking Group in 2016 and took on oversight of its Diversity & Inclusion efforts, one data point was immediately concerning: we had gender imbalance, especially in the leadership ranks. Statistically, mo…

August 26, 2019

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Intends to Acquire CloudCherry to Enhance Cisco Contact Center Portfolio

NOTE: Cisco Completed the acquisition of CloudCherry on October 11, 2019.  Welcome to the team! Improving customer experiences in real-time through the power of cloud data analytics Earlier this year I spoke to you about our vision of shaping the future of contact centers and the critical role that…

August 12, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

There’s Only Life and How You Choose to Live it

A lot has happened to me in the last three years—got engaged, got diagnosed with leukemia, got married, built a house, leukemia went into remission, wrote a book about millennials, had our first child—and Cisco has been part of my life through all of it. My first leader at Cisco was a large, easygoi…

July 30, 2019

INSIDE CISCO IT

The Law of Conservation of Agility

Remember the law of conservation of energy which is one of the basic laws of physics and therefore governs the microscopic motion of individual atoms in a chemical reaction? This law states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one f…

What’s old is new: Why Cisco wants its products back

This post was written by guest blogger Abbey Burns, Circular Economy Program Manager at Cisco Cisco’s products power networks and shape the way we live, work, play, and learn. However, they also shape the world in many other ways. We extract natural resources to make and ship our hardware, and our…