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The end of the year and the start of the next is always a time of retrospection and celebration. Last week was Cisco’s fiscal year earnings announcement, so now seems like a great time to reflect on some of my learnings from my tenure as co-lead of Women of Cisco Americas board. Inclusivity goes beyond standard descriptors. Inclusivity is not only about gender, race or ethnicity. It encompasses representation from different geographies, organizations, and career…

Part 2: Optimizing Application Experience As applications are migrating to the cloud and being offered either as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or built as cloud native infrastructure, the network must become more application aware, programmable, and intelligent to deliver the best experience to users. My previous blog post discussed how Cisco Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) provides seamless connectivity to applications from anywhere. This blog post explores how applications can take advantage of and work cooperatively with the network to…

Now that the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021 winners have been officially announced, we are excited for you to learn more about each winning team and the story behind each innovation. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is an annual competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage tech entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems. Now in its fifth year, the competition awarded its largest prize pool ever, $1 million USD, to 20 winning teams from around the world.   Globally,…

Novel next generation routing endorsed by service provider customers SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET), a leader in cognitive cloud networking, announced today the expansion of its cloud-grade routing solutions for next generation network edge roles in the multi cloud era. Arista’s EOS® (Extensible Operating System) enhancements for cloud and service provider customers transform edge and backbone routing, migrating from legacy routers to software-driven, highly available and scale-out architectures for faster time to revenue…

Cloud technologies have definitely proven their value to the public sector over the last 18 months. Agile and powerful, the cloud offers governments the ability to innovate at scale while leveraging existing infrastructure to affordably modernize government IT. But things are just heating up for the future of cloud. As current cloud strategies become proven, they’ll need to evolve into something new – a “Future Cloud” approach. In a recent Q&A with Government Technology, I…