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Co-Authored by Nick Holden It’s true that Converged Infrastructure (CI) has been around for a long time, even before public clouds became a default option for hosting applications. With the availability of benefits like consumption pricing, on-demand resources, and the flexibility to scale footprints up and down to align with application demand, many customers have migrated to the public cloud. However, for many customers, their requirements have led them to run their applications on-premises or…

Cisco is a tech giant, but social good is at the heart of everything they do. Cisco’s 2021 Purpose Report highlighted several accomplishments in 2021, including: providing job training to roughly three million students worldwide, contributing $477 million to community programs globally and deriving 85 percent of its energy from renewable sources. Amy Poon, an Analyst Relations Manager at Cisco specializing in People, Policy, and Purpose said, “Industry analysts are primarily technology focused but to…

Our customers are the heart and soul of everything we do at Cisco and each one of them has an interesting story to tell! Our Q&A series allows us to shine a spotlight on some of our most passionate customer advocates as we learn more about their stories and backgrounds. Cisco’s advocacy community brings our customers together and provides a way for them to make powerful connections, expand their professional and personal networks, and learn…

Last June Cisco announced plans to work with NetApp to deliver additional hybrid cloud services and support for the FlexPod platform. An integral part of the plan was to extend the capabilities of Cisco Intersight and NetApp Data Fabric to support cloud-native apps, simplify workload and data management, and to improve hybrid cloud operations. Today, Cisco and NetApp are introducing the first fruits of that labor that will help transform converged infrastructure by bringing visibility,…

Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)—cybersecurity’s neglected middle children. BCDR gets no respect. It’s delegated down or relegated out. It’s practically a rite of passage for a junior security analyst to take on BCDR documentation.    So, you can imagine our surprise when disaster recovery was identified as the fourth strongest contributor to building a successful cybersecurity program. The Security Outcomes Study, Volume 2, found that BCDR showed significant correlations with positive outcomes, including:  Gaining the…