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I recently read J. B. Woods new book, Digital Hesitation, which explores the challenges B2B tech companies have faced in reaching digital’s full potential to make the customer experience easier and more enjoyable. Considering the many ways Cisco is working to bring partners along in our own transformation, the book got me thinking about partner maturity levels around digital and Customer Success. To get some perspective on where we are, I recently sat down with…

Today’s always-on digital world is driving the need for more digital infrastructure platforms and digital transformation. This is key to providing exceptional customer experiences, scaling growth, and remaining competitive. Conscia, a major European IT specialist in networking, cyber security, and cloud, is leading the way for businesses that are transforming their infrastructures to meet this challenge. We sat down with Jeffrey den Oudsten, Chief Technology Officer at Conscia Netherlands, to get his insights and perspectives…

A key enabling technology for the next stage of enterprise data networking is Software Defined Networking (SDN). Standards-based and vendor-neutral, this emerging open architecture is dynamic, manageable, cost-effective, and adaptable. As recent global disruptions to business operations have made abundantly clear, enterprise customers need easier-to-configure, -provision, and -maintain enterprise networks (WAN, LAN, and emerging edge networks).  Cataloging the pain points Existing enterprise data networks share a number of challenges: Lack of automated manageability: Enterprises face…

The mainframe is sometimes often pigeonholed as being an old, dying platform. If that’s true, then how do you explain the fact that mainframes process 90% of the world’s credit card payments and more daily transactions than Google search? Or that two-thirds of Fortune 100 companies use the mainframe as their core platform, along with 45 of the top 50 banks, four of the top five airlines, and seven of the top 10 retailers? Or…