CIO Profile: Archie Jackson on how building teams is like parenting

CIO Profile: Archie Jackson on how building teams is like parenting

Archie Jackson, senior director and head of special initiatives, corporate IT, and cybersecurity at Indian consulting and technology services firm Incedo, has had the good fortune to work with great mentors at key stages of his career. Over the years he has learned the importance of purpose — why he does what he does — and how creating an effective team can be like raising a family. After graduating top of his class in electronics…

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Cyberattacks are Prominent in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Cyberattacks are Prominent in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The Conti intrusion set, which Trend Micro tracks under the moniker Water Goblin, has remained active despite other well-established ransomware groups shutting down in the wake of government sanctions. We also observed a spike in the volume of activity for the BazarLoader malware — a key enabler for Conti attacks — since early February 2022.  Conti chat logs leaked  Meanwhile, external sources have reported on the chats of Conti operators being leaked by a Ukrainian…

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Dubai smart campus taps IoT integration for efficiency, sustainability

Dubai smart campus taps IoT integration for efficiency, sustainability

Across the Middle East, smart cities and campuses are investing in the future by leveraging IoT at scale. At the University of Birmingham Dubai, the campus is undergoing a transformation that demonstrates how integrating IoT sensors, facility management software and data analysis can drive cost optimisation, create a better user experience, and introduce new business opportunities. The roll-out of the smart campus project — which is being run in parallel with a similar initiative at…

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Myth Busting Part 1: What is a turnkey automation solution? – Cisco Blogs

Myth Busting Part 1: What is a turnkey automation solution? – Cisco Blogs

What does turnkey mean, exactly?  Turnkey implies that an end user simply must turn a key to start using a product or service. But what if the key is hard to turn? The desire for a vendor’s product to be turnkey is not a new ambition. I may be dating myself, but perhaps you remember a term introduced by a vendor in the 90’s called plug and play. Then, perhaps you’ve heard network engineers say,…

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5G connections to hit 1 billion this year, and will double by 2025

5G connections to hit 1 billion this year, and will double by 2025

5G connections will represent one-fifth of all worldwide mobile connections as of this year, putting those connections above the 1 billion mark for the first time, and that number will double by 2025, according to the GSMA (GSM Association). The GSMA’s Mobile Economy Report, published Wednesday, also said that 5G penetration is moving faster than either of the two previous major generations of mobile networking technology — while neither 3G nor 4G topped 2.2% of…

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Cisco Applauds Senate Passage of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 – Cisco Blogs

Cisco Applauds Senate Passage of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 – Cisco Blogs

Cisco Blogs / High Tech Policy / Cisco Applauds Senate Passage of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 Statement of Eric Wenger (Senior Director, Technology Policy, Global Government Affairs) on the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022: Cisco congratulates Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ranking Member Rob Portman (R-OH) on their bipartisan efforts to successfully pass the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 through the Senate. Effective…

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Cisco Applauds Senate Passage of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 – Cisco Blogs

Cisco Applauds Senate Passage of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 – Cisco Blogs

Cisco Blogs / Inside Cisco IT / Cisco Applauds Senate Passage of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 Statement of Eric Wenger (Senior Director, Technology Policy, Global Government Affairs) on the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022: Cisco congratulates Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ranking Member Rob Portman (R-OH) on their bipartisan efforts to successfully pass the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022 through the Senate. Effective…

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How Blackwoods handled its CIO’s health crisis in the midst of a digital transformation

How Blackwoods handled its CIO’s health crisis in the midst of a digital transformation

As the tech team at workplace safety goods business Blackwoods steeled themselves against the initial onslaught of COVID-19 in early 2020, little did they know the additional curve ball about to be served to them. The long-established brand, a subsidiary of Wesfarmers, which also owns the Bunnings and Officeworks brands, has more than 50 stores across Australia. While scrambling to pull together a revised digital strategy that would enable work from home, remote shopping, click…

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Put STaaS at the Center of Your Multicloud

Put STaaS at the Center of Your Multicloud

One of the ways in which enterprises can maintain better control over how they store, activate, manage, and monetize today’s surge in data is to deploy storage as a service (STaaS) as a central part of their multicloud. Multicloud combines services and resources from multiple cloud providers to increase the flexible use and availability of various applications and services such as STaaS, software as a service, compute as a service, infrastructure as a service, and platform…

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Automation with Any Tooling on Any Interface

Automation with Any Tooling on Any Interface

Terraform expands into the extensive Cisco IOS XE programmability and automation ecosystem IOS XE’s vast, programmable feature set The Cisco IOS XE ecosystem is programmatically managed and supports a variety of tooling. This includes Ansible to YANG Suite, pyATS over NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNxI, and even with legacy CLIs. With the addition of the new Cisco IOS XE Terraform provider, we add an additional tool into the IOS XE configuration management toolbox. In the programmability lifecycle,…

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